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Grid Demand & Prices
The grid's hourly demand and prices, next to your building: spikes propose pre-cooling with the math shown.
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About
This Commons feed reads the US Energy Information Administration's hourly electricity data: system demand, day-ahead and real-time wholesale prices by balancing authority, and generation mix. It is the public signal behind demand charges, delivered as governed events an energy operator can reason over.
The upstream is free with a free API key. Paired with a building connector, a forecast price spike becomes a concrete proposal: pre-cool these zones for these hours, with the expected cost delta computed from the same public numbers on the record.
Highlights
- Free feed; free API key
- Demand and price series by balancing authority
- Price spike -> pre-cooling proposal with the cost delta shown
- Kind
- Commons signal
- Category
- Commons signals
- Publisher
- Fibric Commons
- Upstream
- US EIA (api.eia.gov)
- Feed health
- Feed up; data needs a free key (345ms, checked 2026-07-06T23:28Z)
- Availability
- Early access
- Delivery
- Managed by Fibric; nothing to install
- Data direction
- Read-only
- Pricing
- Free
- Sold by
- Fibric
- Support
- Developed and supported by Fibric
- Tags
- energy, grid, commons, free
Authentication
A free EIA API key, stored in your tenant's secret store.
What it reads
- Hourly system demand for your balancing authority
- Day-ahead and real-time wholesale price series
- Generation mix and demand forecasts as EIA publishes them
What it can do
This is a sensing source: it reads, it does not write. Operators act through the write-capable connectors alongside it.
How it works
1
Sense
Hourly system demand for your balancing authority.
2
Reason
Operators reason over this connector's signals next to the rest of your stack, so decisions are grounded in the same records you run on.
3
Act
Nothing. This is a sensing source; operators act through the write-capable connectors alongside it.
Pricing
Free, part of the Commons
Commons signal feeds are free with every Fibric plan. The upstream data is public; Fibric adds the governance: provenance on every event, deduplication, and receipts when an operator acts on it. You pay for operators, never for signals.
- Deployment engineer
- Wires and verifies the integration with you during onboarding
- Propose-only mode
- See every action it would take before it takes one
- Receipts and audit trail
- Every read and write on the record, exportable any time
- Support from the builders
- Developed, run, and supported directly by Fibric
Requirements
- Your balancing authority or region (for example CAISO, ERCOT)
- A free EIA API key
Your deployment engineer verifies each line with you during onboarding.
Support and resources
Supported by the people who built it
This signal feed is developed, run, and supported by the same Fibric team. Support starts during onboarding with a named deployment engineer and doesn't hand you off afterward.
Works with
The connectors and operators this pairs with in production.
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This Commons signal feed is developed, published, and supported by Fibric. It reads public data published by US EIA (api.eia.gov). Upstream agencies and projects are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with Fibric and do not sponsor or endorse this listing. Trademark policy
Bring Grid Demand & Prices into your early-access deployment
Early access means a deployment engineer wires this with you, and it runs propose-only until you approve live actions.