Vatio · CAISO · Price

Real-time CAISO electricity prices, one API call.

Five-minute locational marginal prices (LMP) for every CAISO trading hub — NP15, SP15 and ZP26 — served from our own low-latency store in clean JSON, so you never touch raw OASIS feeds yourself.

· Live now — CAISO

NP15
$/MWh · North
SP15
$/MWh · South
ZP26
$/MWh · Central
Demand
MW · system
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Wind
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01 / Quickstart

bash — two requests to live data
# 1 — get a free API key
$ curl -X POST https://vatio.dev/v1/auth/signup \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"email":"[email protected]","password":"·····"}'

# 2 — pull the live SP15 price
$ curl https://vatio.dev/v1/caiso/lmp/realtime?hub=SP15 \
    -H "X-API-Key: vt_live_…"

What the CAISO price API returns

The locational marginal price (LMP) is the wholesale cost of electricity at a specific point on the grid for a single five-minute interval. It bundles the marginal generator's cost with congestion and losses, and it is the number traders, battery operators and large buyers watch most closely.

CAISO settles three trading hubs — NP15 (north), SP15 (south) and ZP26 (central). Vatio exposes all three as a single hub parameter, updated on the same five-minute cadence as the market.

Who uses real-time CAISO prices

  • Battery and storage dispatch — charge cheap, discharge into the peak.
  • Energy trading, hedging and settlement signals.
  • Demand-response triggers for large electricity consumers.
  • Retail and wholesale cost forecasting.

Coverage & cadence

NP15, SP15 and ZP26, five-minute intervals in $/MWh, with history on the paid tiers. One endpoint, one key.

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Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) & CAISO OASIS · not affiliated with or endorsed by either.
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