# IESO Dispatch Service Web Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ieso/ieso-dispatch-service-web-service/  
**Provider:** IESO — https://apis.io/providers/ieso/  
**Documentation:** https://www.ieso.ca/sector-participants/technical-interfaces

IESO Dispatch Service Web Service is one of 9 APIs that [IESO](https://apis.io/providers/ieso/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Dispatch, Real-Time, and Market Participants. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

A web service, specified in SPEC-154, through which registered market participants retrieve dispatch instructions issued by the IESO and send back acknowledgements and responses. This is the machine interface to real-time dispatch of Ontario's grid. The design specification is published openly as a PDF, but no base URL is disclosed in it and access is restricted to registered market participants operating dispatchable facilities.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.ieso.ca/-/media/Files/IESO/technical-interfaces/dispatch-service-system/SPEC-154-Dispatch-Service-Web-Service-Design-Specifications.pdf
- **Documentation** — https://www.ieso.ca/sector-participants/technical-interfaces

## Other IESO APIs (8)

- [IESO Public Reports Repository](https://apis.io/apis/ieso/ieso-public-reports-repository/)
- [IESO Reports Site REST API](https://apis.io/apis/ieso/ieso-reports-site-rest-api/)
- [IESO Market Information Management (MIM) Web Services](https://apis.io/apis/ieso/ieso-mim-web-services/)
- [IESO Registration System Facilities API](https://apis.io/apis/ieso/ieso-registration-facilities-api/)
- [IESO Retrofit System API](https://apis.io/apis/ieso/ieso-retrofit-api/)
- [IESO Retrofit Service Provider API](https://apis.io/apis/ieso/ieso-retrofit-service-provider-api/)
- [IESO Dispatch Notification Service Web Service](https://apis.io/apis/ieso/ieso-dispatch-notification-service/)
- [IESO Outage Coordination and Scheduling System (OCSS) Web Service](https://apis.io/apis/ieso/ieso-ocss-web-service/)

## Tags

Dispatch, Real-Time, Market Participants

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