# SiteCheck Trade & Energy – ERCOT Texas Grid Status

> SiteCheck Trade & Energy – ERCOT Texas Grid Status 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 live ERCOT Texas grid data including frequency, demand, generation mix by fuel, real-time and day-ahead prices for hubs/load zones, and demand/capacity forecasts.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/energy/ercot-texas-grid-status?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/sitecheck-trade-energy-ercot-texas-grid-status-cba58f7e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_JIDPsVcKtPnb9L8S0yY_9

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 sitecheck-trade-energy-ercot-texas-grid-status-cba58f7e
```

Example prompt: What's the current state of the Texas ERCOT grid — give me the live frequency, demand, reserve margin, generation mix by fuel, and the latest real-time and day-ahead hub prices?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a comprehensive, single-call snapshot of the live ERCOT Texas grid covering frequency, demand, reserve margin, fuel mix, renewable output, and both real-time and day-ahead prices. It is the right choice for energy trading dashboards, grid monitoring agents, renewable energy analytics, and demand forecasting workflows focused specifically on the ERCOT/Texas market. Prefer alternatives if you need non-ERCOT markets (e.g. PJM, CAISO, MISO) or granular historical time-series data.

## Known failure modes

- ERCOT public dashboard unavailable or under maintenance — upstream 503/timeout
- Stale data if ERCOT data refresh is delayed
- Empty or partial response if specific metrics (e.g. inertia) are not currently published
- Network timeout from Cloudflare Worker if upstream latency is high

## How this service works

Live Texas (ERCOT) grid status from ERCOT's public dashboards: frequency, demand, net load, capacity and reserve margin (MW and %), wind, solar and inertia; the latest generation mix by fuel with shares; real-time and day-ahead prices for ERCOT hubs and load zones (USD/MWh); and ERCOT's demand and capacity forecast for the coming hours.

## Output

A JSON payload containing: current grid frequency (Hz), real-time demand and net load (MW), installed capacity and reserve margin (MW and %), wind and solar output (MW), system inertia, a breakdown of generation by fuel type with percentage shares, real-time and day-ahead prices in USD/MWh for ERCOT hubs and load zones, and a near-term demand and capacity forecast for the coming hours.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-trade-energy-ercot-texas-grid-status-cba58f7e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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