Decision-grade power-market intelligence

See where power is available, valuable and changing.

PowerGridIQ brings live grid conditions, delivered cost, connection timing and market outlook together across 84 rated market and regional views. Use it to site large loads, sell generation, evaluate behind-the-meter opportunities, plan infrastructure and monitor investments, with cited evidence behind every market read.

One market. The complete power picture.

Live conditions tell you what is happening now. The market report explains what it means for cost, access, opportunity and risk. PowerGridIQ keeps them together.

Ontario Structural baseline, June 2026 Open in Grid Today → Read the full report →
Today
Wholesale price
$18/MWh
Structural baseline, June 2026
Energy only. Not the delivered cost.
Demand
15,655 MW
Structural baseline, June 2026
Carbon intensity
37 g/kWh
Structural baseline, June 2026
Renewable share
34%
Structural baseline, June 2026
Access and cost
Connection wait
3-5 years
High friction, proxy
Delivered cost band
$55 to $100/MWh
Compiled for the declared 100 MW case. Not the wholesale price above.
PGIQ Rating
Tier 2 Strong, score 64
Outlook Negative, confidence High
Opportunity
Build
Feasibility 30
Access 60, availability 58
Sell
Offtake index 42
Demand hunger 38
Plan
Queue not counted
Next review 2026-11-15
Monitor
reliability flags found, firm supply tight
Cost triangulated, regulation mixed, worsening
What changed
Latest verified development
Ontario Bill 40 introduces prioritized large data-centre connections
Access · 2025 · materiality med
What did not change: the tier, the score and the five pillar values are unchanged by this event. The rating moves only when the evidence does.

Every field carries its own source and freshness. Price, imports and exports have no live feed in any market and are always modelled. Carbon intensity is derived from the fuel mix, never measured.

What decision are you making?

Each path opens the same market intelligence through the lens that answers it. It is one product, not five.

What is changing the power map

New capacity, connection rules, tariffs and reliability events, translated into what they mean for power buyers, sellers, planners and investors.

Newfoundland & LabradorAug 2026
Churchill Falls and Gull Island agreement replaces the 1969 contract; 14,000 MW targeted, up to 2,350 MW retained in province
Announced 17 Aug 2026 in St. John's by the Prime Minister with the premiers of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec. The agreements terminate the 1969 Churchill Falls power contrac…
Availability · materiality high · rating unchanged unless an action is logged
QuebecAug 2026
Quebec secures long-term Churchill Falls and Gull Island supply as the 1969 contract is terminated
The 17 Aug 2026 agreements end the 1969 power contract, under which Hydro-Quebec bought Churchill Falls output at 0.2 cents per kWh, and replace the December 2024 MOU. Hydro-Quebec…
Availability · materiality high · rating unchanged unless an action is logged
Newfoundland & LabradorAug 2026
Labrador Trough corridor referred to the federal Major Projects Office to unlock mining load
The federal government referred the Labrador Trough Clean Power, Critical Minerals and Infrastructure Corridor to the Major Projects Office, which coordinates federal financing and…
Access · materiality high · rating unchanged unless an action is logged
Newfoundland & LabradorAug 2026
Churchill Falls expansion (CFX) removed from the agreement; feasibility study only
VOCM reports that CFX, the expansion of the Churchill Falls generating station itself, has been taken out of the new agreement. A feasibility study will be completed but commercial…
Availability · materiality med · rating unchanged unless an action is logged

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Decision-ready grid intelligence for software and AI agents

Call market ratings, live conditions, delivered-cost evidence, connection timing and verified developments in JSON or over MCP. Every answer carries its market, method, freshness and source context.

curl -s "https://powergridiq.com/api/v1/best?lens=cost&min_tier=3&limit=3"

# Ranked by delivered cost, not by wholesale price. Each row carries its
# own evidence depth, and any field we do not hold comes back explicitly
# absent rather than filled with a proxy.
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JSON, MCP, OpenAPI

One contract, three ways in. Schemas at /openapi.json.

Per-field provenance

live, recent, derived_current, structural, modelled, unavailable.

Honest absence

No live price feed exists in any market, and the API says so.

Citation guidance

How to attribute a rating, in /llms.txt.

Production access

Volume plans and support at /pricing.

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The free product is the whole read of any single market: every pillar, the evidence, the cost band, the connection level and the dated history. Nothing is withheld to force a decision.

The Analyst Desk sells what a single market cannot give you: 84 rated market and regional views side by side with precise figures, the history, shortlist monitoring, alerts, exports and API volume.