Capacity (beta)

UPDATED Thursday July 15, 10:08 PM PST

HTTP Request for wind

GET https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity

This endpoint returns various metrics, where available, of a zone"s Capacity market.

Requires an API Key

This feature is only available to WattPricer Account-holders.

Query Parameters#

Parameter	Description	Examples
`zone_key`	A string representing the zone identifier. We use a combination of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, ISO 3166-2 country subdivision code, and where applicable, ISO 639-1 language codes for our locale codes. See the `/zones` endpoint for a list of valid zones.	`US-MISO`
`metric`	Statistic regarding the capacity market of the zone in question (see below)	`OFFSUB`
`as_csv` (OPTIONAL)	Boolean indicating whether to return the data in CSV format.	`true`

The metric parameter is a string corresponding to one of the following fields:

Metric Name	Metric Description	Units
`PRMR`	PRMR (Planning Reserve Margin Requirement)	MW
`OFFSUB`	Offer Submitted (Including FRAP)	MW
`FRAP`	Fixed Resource Adequacy Plan (FRAP)	MW
`SS`	Self Scheduled (SS)	MW
`NSSOC`	Non-SS Offer Cleared	MW
`COMIT`	Committed (Offer Cleared + FRAP)	MW
`LCR`	Local Clearing Requirement (LCR)	MW
`CIL`	Capacity Import Limit (CIL)	MW
`ZIA`	Zonal Import Ability (ZIA)	MW
`IMPORT`	Import	MW
`CEL`	Capacity Export Limit (CEL)	MW
`export`	Export	MW
`ACP`	Auction Clearing Price	currency/MWDay
`UCAPT`	Unforced Capacity (UCAP) Total	MW
`UCAPC`	Unforced Capacity (UCAP) (Confirmed)	MW
`UCAPU`	Unforced Capacity (UCAP) (Unconfirmed)	MW
`CUC`	Converted Unforced Capacity (Zonal Resource Credit)	MW
`UCAP`	Unconverted Unforced Capacity (UCAP)	MW
`FRAMZRC`	FRAP + ZRC Offer	MW
`ZRCNO`	ZRC Not Offered/FRAP	MW
`ZRCNP`	MW/ZRC not participating in PRA	MW
`CPDF`	CPDF (Coincident Peak Demand Forecast)	MW
`CPDFTL`	CPDF + Transmission Losses	MW
`PRM`	Planning Reserve Margin (PRM)	percentage
`ZCPDF`	ZCPDF (Zonal Coincident Peak Demand Forecast)	MW
`ZCPDFZTL`	ZCPDF + Zonal Trans. Losses	MW
`LRRF`	LRR (Local Reliability Requirement) Factor	unitless
`LRR`	LRR	MW
`NPTE`	Non-Pseudo Tied Exports	MW
`LCRP`	LCR as a % of PRMR	percentage

Code samples#

cURL command

@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity?zone_key={string}&metric={string}&as_csv={boolean}"-H "x-api-key: {subscription key}"
--data-ascii "{body}"

C-sharp code

using System;using System.Net.Http.Headers;using System.Text;using System.Net.Http;using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample{    static class Program    {        static void Main()        {            MakeRequest();            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");            Console.ReadLine();        }                static async void MakeRequest()        {            var client = new HttpClient();            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
            // Request headers            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "{subscription key}");
            // Request parameters            queryString["zone_key"] = "{string}";            queryString["metric"] = "{string}";            queryString["as_csv"] = "{boolean}";            var uri = "https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity?" + queryString;
            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);        }    }}

Java code

// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)import java.net.URI;import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample {    public static void main(String[] args)     {        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
        try        {            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity");
            builder.setParameter("zone_key", "{string}");            builder.setParameter("metric", "{string}");            builder.setParameter("as_csv", "{boolean}");
            URI uri = builder.build();            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);            request.setHeader("x-api-key", "{subscription key}");

            // Request body            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");            request.setEntity(reqEntity);
            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
            if (entity != null)             {                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));            }        }        catch (Exception e)        {            System.out.println(e.getMessage());        }    }}

JavaScript code

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>    <title>JSSample</title>    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script></head><body>
<script type="text/javascript">    $(function() {        var params = {            // Request parameters            "zone_key": "{string}",            "metric": "{string}",            "as_csv": "{boolean}",        };              $.ajax({            url: "https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity?" + $.param(params),            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){                // Request headers                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("x-api-key","{subscription key}");            },            type: "GET",            // Request body            data: "{body}",        })        .done(function(data) {            alert("success");        })        .fail(function() {            alert("error");        });    });</script></body></html>

Node wattpricer.js code

const axios = require("axios");const BASE_URL = `https://wprice.io`
module.exports = {    getCapacityMarketData: (zoneKeyString, asCSVBool) => axios({        method:"GET",        url : BASE_URL + `/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity?`,        headers: {            "content-type": "application/json",            "x-api-key": "{subscription key}"        },        params: {            zone_key: zoneKeyString,            as_csv: asCSVBool        }    })}

Node app.js code

const WattPricerAPI = require('./wattpricer')const asyncApiCall = async () => {    const response = await WattPricerAPI.getCapacityMarketData('{string}', '{boolean}')    console.log(response.data)}asyncApiCall()

Objective C code

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]){    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];        NSString* path = @"https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity";    NSArray* array = @[                         // Request parameters                         @"zone_key={string}",                         @"metric={string}",                         @"as_csv={boolean}",                      ];        NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
    NSLog(@"%@", path);
    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];    // Request headers    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"x-api-key"];    // Request body    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];        NSURLResponse *response = nil;    NSError *error = nil;    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
    if (nil != error)    {        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);    }    else    {        NSError* error = nil;        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);                if (nil != _connectionData)        {            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];        }                if (error || !json)        {            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);        }                NSLog(@"%@", json);        _connectionData = nil;    }        [pool drain];
    return 0;}

PHP code

<?php// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity');$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(    // Request headers    'x-api-key' => '{subscription key}',);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(    // Request parameters    'zone_key' => '{string}',    'metric': '{string}',    'as_csv' => '{boolean}',);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body$request->setBody("{body}");
try{    $response = $request->send();    echo $response->getBody();}catch (HttpException $ex){    echo $ex;}
?>

Python 3.X code

import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {    # Request headers    'x-api-key': '{subscription key}',}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({    # Request parameters    'zone_key': '{string}',    'metric': '{string}',    'as_csv': '{boolean}',})
try:    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('wprice.io')    conn.request("GET", "/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)    response = conn.getresponse()    data = response.read()    print(data)    conn.close()except Exception as e:    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

Python 2.X reached EOL in 2020. For legacy systems that still use it, you can use the following code:

Python 2.7 code

import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {    # Request headers    'x-api-key': '{subscription key}',}
params = urllib.urlencode({    # Request parameters    'zone_key': '{string}',    'as_csv': '{boolean}',})
try:    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.pjm.com')    conn.request("GET", "/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)    response = conn.getresponse()    data = response.read()    print(data)    conn.close()except Exception as e:    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

R code

#NOTE: if you have problems with ggmap, try to install both ggplot and ggmap from github#devtools::install_github("dkahle/ggmap")#devtools::install_github("hadley/ggplot2")library(ggmap)library(ggplot2)library(dplyr)library(rjson)library(jsonlite)library(RCurl)
# Base URL pathbase_url = "https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity?"full_url = paste0(base_url,                  "zone_key={string}",                  "&{as_csv}={boolean}")# encode the URL with characters for each space.full_url <- URLencode(full_url)
# Convert JSON to data framepop_proj_data_df <- fromJSON(getURL(full_url))head(pop_proj_data_df, n = 2)

Ruby code

require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity')
query = URI.encode_www_form({    # Request parameters    'zone_key' => '{string}',    'metric' => '{string}',    'as_csv' => '{boolean}',})if query.length > 0  if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0    uri.query += '&' + query  else    uri.query = query  endend
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)# Request headersrequest['x-api-key'] = '{subscription key}'# Request bodyrequest.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|    http.request(request)end
puts response.body

Rust code (synchronous)

use error_chain::error_chain;use std::io::Read;use exitfailure::ExitFailure;use reqwest::Url;use serde_derive::{Deserialize, Serialize};use std::env;
error_chain! {    foreign_links {        Io(std::io::Error);        HttpRequest(reqwest::Error);    }}
fn main() -> Result<()> {    let mut res = reqwest::blocking::get("https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity?zone_key={string}&as_csv={boolean}")?;    let mut body = String::new();    res.read_to_string(&mut body)?;
    println!("Status: {}", res.status());    println!("Headers:\n{:#?}", res.headers());    println!("Body:\n{}", body);
    Ok(())}

Rust code (async)

use error_chain::error_chain;use exitfailure::ExitFailure;use reqwest::Url;use serde_derive::{Deserialize, Serialize};use std::env;
error_chain! {    foreign_links {        Io(std::io::Error);        HttpRequest(reqwest::Error);    }}
#[tokio::main]async fn main() -> Result<()> {    let res = reqwest::get("https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity?zone_key={string}&as_csv={boolean}").await?;    println!("Status: {}", res.status());    println!("Headers:\n{:#?}", res.headers());
    let body = res.text().await?;    println!("Body:\n{}", body);    Ok(())}

Scala code

//Imports for Dispatchimport dispatch._import Defaults._
object Places {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    //Prepare the request object
    //even though its a https . doing a .secure is not required    val request = url("https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity")    val requestAsGet = request.GET //not required but lets be explicit
    //Set the required parameters    val builtRequest = requestAsGet.addQueryParameter("x-api-key", "{subscription key}")      .addQueryParameter("zone_key", "{string}")      .addQueryParameter("as_csv", "{boolean}")
    //Make the request (method is already set above)    val content = Http(builtRequest)
    //Once the response is available    //response completed successfully    content onSuccess {
      //Request was successful & response was OK      case x if x.getStatusCode() == 200 =>        //Response was OK, read the contents        handleJsonOutput(x.getResponseBody)      case y => //Step 7 : Response is not OK, read the error        println("Failed with status code" + y.getStatusCode())    }
    //Request did not complete successfully, read the error    content onFailure {      case x =>        println("Failed but"); println(x.getMessage)    }
    println("ENTER TO EXIT")    readLine()  }
  //CASE CLASSES  case class Node(nodeName: String, LMP: Double, MLC: Double, MCC: Double)  case class Results(billingUnit: String, currency: String, datetime: String, node: Node,                     source: String, updated: String, zoneKey: String)  case class RootJsonObject(results: List[Results])
  //JSON imports  import org.json4s.jackson.Serialization  import org.json4s.jackson.Serialization.{ read }  import org.json4s.NoTypeHints
  private def handleJsonOutput(body: String): Unit = {    //required to set implicit here for JSON serialization to work properly    implicit val formats = Serialization.formats(NoTypeHints)
    //read the output as a RootJsonObject instance    //the read call does the trick of mapping JSon to the case classes    val output = read[RootJsonObject](body)    println(s"Total Results: ${output.results.size}")
    for (each <- output.results)      println(s"${each.name.get} at ${each.vicinity.get}")  }}

TypeScript code

async function getCapacityMarketData ( query: object ): Promise<object> {   const url = new URL('https://wprice.io/api/v1/present/auctioninfo/auctionCapacity');   url.search = new URLSearchParams( query ).toString();   const headers = {       "x-api-key": "{subscription key}",       "content-type":"application/json",   };   const response = await fetch( url.toString(), {headers} );   return await response.json();};const query = {   zone_key: "{string}",   as_csv: "{boolean}",};(async () => {   const data = await getCapacityMarketData( query );   console.log(data)})()

Successful Response Samples#

HTTP 200 OK#

The above command returns the following, with zone_key=US-MISO and metric=OFFSUB

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response for media types 'application/json' and 'text/json'

{    "updated": "2021-4-20T05:08:49+04:00",    "metricCode": "OFFSUB",    "metricName": "Offer Submitted (Including FRAP)",    "localResourceZones": {        "Z1": 20296.4,        "Z2": 14056.10,        "Z3": 10822,        "Z4": 10281.4,        "Z5": 7952.8,        "Z6": 17134.6,        "Z7": 21727.5,        "Z8": 10573.5,        "Z9": 21800.7,        "Z10": 5300.2,        "ERZ": 1629,        "System": 141574.2    },    "units":"MW",    "zoneKey": "US-MISO",    "source": "misoenergy.org"}

response for media types 'application/xml' and 'text/xml'

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>   <updated type="str">2021-4-20T05:08:49+04:00</updated>   <metricCode type="str">OFFSUB</metricCode>   <metricName type="str">Offer Submitted (Including FRAP)</metricName>   <localResourceZones type="dict">      <Z1 type="float">20296.4</Z1>      <Z2 type="float">14056.1</Z2>      <Z3 type="int">10822</Z3>      <Z4 type="float">10281.4</Z4>      <Z5 type="float">7952.8</Z5>      <Z6 type="float">17134.6</Z6>      <Z7 type="float">21727.5</Z7>      <Z8 type="float">10573.5</Z8>      <Z9 type="float">21800.7</Z9>      <Z10 type="float">5300.2</Z10>      <ERZ type="int">1629</ERZ>      <System type="float">141574.2</System>   </localResourceZones>   <units type="str">MW</units>   <zoneKey type="str">US-MISO</zoneKey>   <source type="str">misoenergy.org</source></root>

response for media types 'text/csv'

,updated,metricCode,metricName,units,zoneKey,source,localResourceZones_Z1,localResourceZones_Z2,localResourceZones_Z3,localResourceZones_Z4,localResourceZones_Z5,localResourceZones_Z6,localResourceZones_Z7,localResourceZones_Z8,localResourceZones_Z9,localResourceZones_Z10,localResourceZones_ERZ,localResourceZones_System0,2021-4-20T05:08:49+04:00,OFFSUB,Offer Submitted (Including FRAP),MW,US-MISO,misoenergy.org,20296.4,14056.1,10822,10281.4,7952.8,17134.6,21727.5,10573.5,21800.7,5300.2,1629,141574.2

Error Response Samples#

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HTTP 400 BAD REQUEST#

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response for media types 'application/json' and 'text/json'

{  "code": 400,  "message": "BAD REQUEST",  "timestamp": "2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00",  "detailedMessage": "The server could not understand the request due to invalid syntax."}

response for media types 'application/xml' and 'text/xml'

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>   <code type="int">400</code>   <message type="str">BAD REQUEST</message>   <timestamp type="str">2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00</timestamp>   <detailedMessage type="str">The server could not understand the request due to invalid syntax.</detailedMessage></root>

response for media types 'text/csv'

,code,message,timestamp,detailedMessage0,400,BAD REQUEST,2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00,The server could not understand the request due to invalid syntax.

HTTP 404 NOT FOUND#

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response for media types 'application/json' and 'text/json'

{  "code": 404,  "message": "NOT FOUND",  "timestamp": "2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00",  "detailedMessage": "The server can not find the requested resource. The endpoint is valid but the resource itself does not exist."}

response for media types 'application/xml' and 'text/xml'

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>   <code type="int">404</code>   <message type="str">NOT FOUND</message>   <timestamp type="str">2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00</timestamp>   <detailedMessage type="str">The server can not find the requested resource. The endpoint is valid but the resource itself does not exist.</detailedMessage></root>

response for media types 'text/csv'

,code,message,timestamp,detailedMessage0,404,NOT FOUND,2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00,The server can not find the requested resource. The endpoint is valid but the resource itself does not exist.

HTTP 406 NOT ACCEPTABLE#

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response for media types 'application/json' and 'text/json'

{  "code": 406,  "message": "NOT ACCEPTABLE",  "timestamp": "2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00",  "detailedMessage": "The server, after performing server-driven content negotiation, didn't find any content that conforms to the criteria given by the user agent."}

response for media types 'application/xml' and 'text/xml'

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>   <code type="int">406</code>   <message type="str">NOT ACCEPTABLE</message>   <timestamp type="str">2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00</timestamp>   <detailedMessage type="str">The server, after performing server-driven content negotiation, didn't find any content that conforms to the criteria given by the user agent.</detailedMessage></root>

response for media types 'text/csv'

,code,message,timestamp,detailedMessage0,406,NOT ACCEPTABLE,2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00,"The server, after performing server-driven content negotiation, didn't find any content that conforms to the criteria given by the user agent."

HTTP 422 UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY#

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response for media types 'application/json' and 'text/json'

{  "code": 422,  "message": "UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY",  "timestamp": "2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00",  "detailedMessage": "The request was well-formed but was unable to be followed due to semantic errors."}

response for media types 'application/xml' and 'text/xml'

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>   <code type="int">422</code>   <message type="str">UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY</message>   <timestamp type="str">2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00</timestamp>   <detailedMessage type="str">The request was well-formed but was unable to be followed due to semantic errors.</detailedMessage></root>

response for media types 'text/csv'

,code,message,timestamp,detailedMessage0,422,UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY,2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00,The request was well-formed but was unable to be followed due to semantic errors.

HTTP 451 UNAVAILABLE FOR LEGAL REASONS#

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response for media types 'application/json' and 'text/json'

{  "code": 451,  "message": "UNAVAILABLE FOR LEGAL REASONS",  "timestamp": "2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00",  "detailedMessage": "The user-agent requested a resource that cannot legally be provided."}

response for media types 'application/xml' and 'text/xml'

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>   <code type="int">451</code>   <message type="str">UNAVAILABLE FOR LEGAL REASONS</message>   <timestamp type="str">2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00</timestamp>   <detailedMessage type="str">The user-agent requested a resource that cannot legally be provided.</detailedMessage></root>

response for media types 'text/csv'

,code,message,timestamp,detailedMessage0,451,UNAVAILABLE FOR LEGAL REASONS,2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00,The user-agent requested a resource that cannot legally be provided.

HTTP 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR#

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response for media types 'application/json' and 'text/json'

{  "code": 500,  "message": "INTERNAL SERVER ERROR",  "timestamp": "2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00",  "detailedMessage": "The server has encountered a situation it doesn't know how to handle."}

response for media types 'application/xml' and 'text/xml'

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>   <code type="int">500</code>   <message type="str">INTERNAL SERVER ERROR</message>   <timestamp type="str">2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00</timestamp>   <detailedMessage type="str">The server has encountered a situation it doesn't know how to handle.</detailedMessage></root>

response for media types 'text/csv'

,code,message,timestamp,detailedMessage0,500,INTERNAL SERVER ERROR,2021-07-13T09:20:33+00:00,The server has encountered a situation it doesn't know how to handle.