New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) is the not-for-profit FERC-jurisdictional entity that operates New York State's bulk electricity grid, administers the state's wholesale energy, capacity and ancillary-services markets, and performs long-term power system planning. Formed in 1999 out of the New York Power Pool, it sits squarely in the wholesale middle of the value chain - between generators, transmission owners and interconnectors on one side and the investor-owned utilities and retail suppliers who actually bill New York consumers on the other. NYISO's API posture is the sector's classic two-speed split, and NYISO lands hard on both ends of it. Market and system data is genuinely open - the MIS public archive at mis.nyiso.com/public serves roughly sixty machine-readable report families (day-ahead and real-time LBMP, actual and forecast load, real-time fuel mix, ATC/TTC, outages, constraints, interface flows, bid data, capacity, uplift, emissions) as daily CSV and monthly ZIP with no account, no key and no referrer check, and the FERC-mandated OASIS node publishes an anonymously listable object store of transmission postings. Consumer data is the exact opposite - there is none, and none is expected, because NYISO holds no retail customer relationships. Every real REST API NYISO documents - the Finance APIs (Metering, Settlements, Invoicing) and the Metering API under api.nyiso.com - is market-participant-only, gated behind an MIS user account plus a NAESB-accredited digital certificate, and every one of those endpoints answers 401 anonymously. The United States has no consumer energy data mandate behind Green Button, and in any case Green Button binds distribution utilities, not system operators, so NYISO carries no Green Button or Consumer Data Right obligation at all.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) the way a machine reads it — 18 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) scores 29.6/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 6/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
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How we profile New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for New York Independent System Operator (NYISO). For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 6
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
NYISO MIS Public Data Archive
NYISO's Market Information System public archive - the operator's flagship open data surface. Roughly sixty machine-readable report families are published as predictable daily C...
NYISO OASIS Postings
NYISO's Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS) node, the FERC Order 889/890 transmission-service transparency surface. The operator front-end at oasis.nyiso.com is a s...
NYISO Finance Metering API
The Metering component of NYISO's Finance APIs - submission and retrieval of hourly revenue-grade meter data for generators, ties and subzones, plus retrieval of calculated subz...
NYISO Finance Settlements API
The Settlements component of NYISO's Finance APIs. The published guide documents GET /v1/stationPower, retrieving station power settlement data by billing month with an optional...
NYISO Finance Invoicing API
The Invoicing component of NYISO's Finance APIs, retrieving daily reconciliation data for both settlements dollars and energy volumes. The published guide documents GET /v1/dail...
NYISO Metering API
NYISO's standalone Metering API, documented separately from the Finance APIs guide and served from its own root at api.nyiso.com/metering. It covers submission and retrieval of ...
JSON Schema 10
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
NYISO Day-Ahead Market Generator LBMP record
JSON SCHEMANYISO Day-Ahead Market Zonal LBMP record
JSON SCHEMANYISO ISO Load Forecast record
JSON SCHEMANYISO Day-Ahead Scheduled Outages record
JSON SCHEMANYISO Real-Time Actual Load record
JSON SCHEMANYISO Real-Time Market Zonal LBMP record
JSON SCHEMANYISO Real-Time Fuel Mix record
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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