Central Power Grid Status
Data as of , EIA hourly demand feed.
Active weather: Extreme Heat Warning, Heat Advisory.
About the Central grid region
The Central region is anchored by the Southwest Power Pool (SPP), stretching from the Dakotas down through Oklahoma. It is one of the windiest grids in the country, so its supply picture shifts with the weather as much as its demand does.
On the map, this region is part of the Eastern Interconnection. Its status color comes from the ratio of actual demand to the bias-corrected day-ahead forecast: green means headroom, amber and orange mean it is tightening, and red means demand has met or passed what the operator expected, or a real emergency has been declared.
Kansas · Nebraska · North Dakota · Oklahoma · South Dakota
Grid regions follow balancing authorities, not state lines; split states are listed under the region that serves most of their load.
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