Midwest Power Grid Status
Data as of , EIA hourly demand feed.
Active weather: Heat Advisory.
About the Midwest grid region
The Midwest region is anchored by MISO, one of the largest grid operators in the world by area, spanning from Minnesota and Michigan down the Mississippi valley to Louisiana. Its sheer size means regional strain often shows up here before it shows up anywhere else.
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.
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