# NYISO Real-Time Zonal Electricity Prices

> NYISO Real-Time Zonal Electricity Prices is a paid API for AI agents from api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns the latest 5-minute LBMP real-time electricity prices ($/MWh) for all 15 New York ISO zones and interfaces, including loss and congestion components plus day-to-date zone averages.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/energy/nyiso-new-york-grid?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nyiso-real-time-zonal-electricity-prices-12163251
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_oZqc9qDRiFCAt93bTSjNJ

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability nyiso-real-time-zonal-electricity-prices-12163251
```

Example prompt: What's the current real-time LBMP electricity price for New York City right now — show me the total, loss, and congestion components?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time (5-minute) locational marginal electricity prices for the New York ISO market, including breakdown by loss and congestion components. It is the right choice for energy trading, grid monitoring, or cost analysis applications focused specifically on the New York state electric grid. It does not cover day-ahead NYISO prices or other US grid operators (PJM, CAISO, MISO, etc.).

## Known failure modes

- NYISO MIS file unavailable or delayed — upstream data source outage may return stale or empty results
- Invalid zone name parameter — may return no data or an error if the zone string does not match a known NYISO zone identifier
- Data lag — the 5-minute real-time data may be a few minutes behind actual market time due to NYISO publishing cadence
- Network timeout from Cloudflare Workers — transient 5xx error if the worker is unavailable

## How this service works

New York ISO real-time zonal electricity prices from NYISO's public MIS files: the latest 5-minute LBMP ($/MWh) for each of the 15 zones and interfaces (CAPITL, N.Y.C., LONGIL, WEST...) with its loss and congestion components, plus the day's average so far per zone. Eastern time stamps; real-time market only (day-ahead not included).

## Output

Returns the most recent 5-minute LBMP price in $/MWh for each of the 15 NYISO zones and interfaces, broken down into energy, loss, and congestion components, along with Eastern timestamps and the day-to-date average price per zone. If a zone filter is applied, only that zone's data is returned.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "zone": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional zone name, e.g. N.Y.C., LONGIL, CAPITL, WEST"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/nyiso-real-time-zonal-electricity-prices-12163251/health.json
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