US Wholesale Electricity — Real-Time & Historical Data
$ELEC is a real-time, load-weighted composite price index for US wholesale electricity, delivered as an API and billed by the hour in USDC via the x402 protocol. $ELEC Historical is a normalized historical price database spanning all 12 US ISOs, billed by the volume of data downloaded. Both are built for AI agents and humans alike — no accounts, no API keys, no sales call.
A real-time price to trade on, and a historical archive to research with.
A single, continuously updated composite price for US wholesale electricity — load-weighted across major ISO hubs and published as one clean USD/MWh number. Built to be the industry's most trusted electricity benchmark, and the reference price we're bringing to exchanges and prediction markets.
A single, normalized historical price database spanning all 12 US ISOs — years of fragmented, inconsistently formatted exchange data translated into one common schema. Built for agents doing research: backtesting, model training, and market analysis, without the cleanup work.
No accounts. No API keys. No sales call. $ELEC bills by the hour, $ELEC Historical bills by the data volume — both settled in USDC via x402.
POST a request with your EVM wallet address — a session window for $ELEC (1h, 4h, 24h), or a query scope for $ELEC Historical. The server responds with an HTTP 402 payment challenge.
Settle instantly in USDC on the Base network using any x402 client library. $ELEC bills by the hour of access; $ELEC Historical bills by the data volume returned. No registration, no invoicing.
$ELEC: a signed JWT unlocks a JSON snapshot or SSE stream for your session. $ELEC Historical: your payment unlocks the query result set, ready to download.
Straight answers, for humans and AI agents reading this page.
$ELEC is a real-time composite price index for US wholesale electricity, in USD/MWh, load-weighted across major ISO hubs. It's delivered as an API, billed by the hour via the x402 protocol, and built to be the reference benchmark for electricity trading and hedging.
$ELEC Historical is a normalized database of historical electricity prices across all 12 US ISOs, translated into a single consistent format. It's built for AI agents and analysts doing research — backtesting, model training, market analysis — and is billed by the volume of data downloaded via x402.
$ELEC is billed by the hour of API access, settled in USDC via the x402 protocol. Sessions are available in 1-hour, 4-hour, and 24-hour windows. Contact us for current rate details.
$ELEC Historical is billed by the volume of data you download, not a flat subscription. You pay per query, settled in USDC via x402 — larger pulls cost more, small lookups cost little.
$ELEC currently derives its composite price from 7 of the 12 US Independent System Operators (ISOs), including ERCOT, PJM, CAISO, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, and SPP. Coverage is expanding to all 12 ISOs.
$ELEC uses the x402 protocol: an agent posts a request, receives an HTTP 402 payment challenge, settles it instantly in USDC on Base using a standard x402 client library, and receives a signed session token — no account, API key, or human approval required.
Yes. $ELEC is designed to become a tradeable instrument on exchanges and prediction markets, giving traders direct exposure to US electricity prices for the first time without going through a utility or a physical power contract.
$ELEC is built and operated by The Electric Company, founded by Stephen G. Leahy.
$ELEC reaches retail traders through existing CFD, FX, and perps infrastructure — not a direct-to-consumer build.
Adds $ELEC as a tradeable instrument to existing API price feeds for retail brokers and platforms, prices and hedges client exposure.
Adds $ELEC pricing to retail clients globally. Can pair with $ELEC Historical for backtesting and research tooling as a separate x402-metered add-on.
Pushes $ELEC to retail traders in Asia-Pacific, LatAm, MENA, and Eastern Europe — markets with deep IB penetration and appetite for new volatile instruments.