# Grid and Energy Data API
GET/v1/griddata/power/load/{market}/{region}
Latest demand for a region in MW: NEM total demand (5-minute), GB initial demand outturn (30-minute), ENTSO-E actual load (15 or 60-minute), EIA hourly demand for US balancing authorities. Refreshes every 5 minutes.
Price
$0.01/ callEdge cache
150s
Uptime 24h
96.36%
p95
348ms
MCP tool
griddata_power-load-market-region
The Grid and Energy Data API provides wholesale electricity prices per market region, grid demand and generation by fuel, and other related data. It covers four market structures: AEMO NEM, Elexon GB, ENTSO-E EU zones, and EIA US balancing authorities. The API offers a unified schema and UTC timestamps. Data is available for energy, power prices, electricity, grid carbon, day-ahead, NEM, GB, and US markets.
Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| market* | path | string | |
| region* | path | string |
Code
# 1. No key, no payment: the gateway answers 402 with the price
curl -i "https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/griddata/power/load/nem/NSW1"
# 2. Pay: retry with a signed x402 payment (any x402 client builds this header)
curl "https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/griddata/power/load/nem/NSW1" -H "PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: $X402_PAYMENT"// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/core @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
const client = x402Client.fromConfig({ schemes: [{ network: "eip155:8453", client: new ExactEvmScheme(privateKeyToAccount(PRIVATE_KEY)) }] });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
const data = await (await pay("https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/griddata/power/load/nem/NSW1")).json();
console.log(data);# pip install "x402[requests,evm]==2.27.0" eth-account
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact import register_exact_evm_client
client = x402ClientSync()
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(PRIVATE_KEY)))
session = x402_requests(client)
print(session.get("https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/griddata/power/load/nem/NSW1").json())curl "https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/griddata/power/load/nem/NSW1" -H "X-API-Key: $RTAPI_KEY"Frequently asked questions
What is the API endpoint for latest grid demand?
The endpoint is /power/load/{market}/{region}
What is the price of the API?
$0.010 per request
What is the refresh rate of the data?
Every 5 minutes