AESO · Arazzo Workflow

AESO live market snapshot

Version 1.0.0

Take one coherent reading of the Alberta market — supply and demand balance, live system marginal price, and today's completed settlement-hour pool prices.

1 workflow 3 source APIs 1 provider
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aeso

Workflows

aeso-market-snapshot
Read grid balance, live price and settled prices in one pass.
Every step is an anonymous-schema GET on the AESO Azure APIM gateway and needs the API-KEY request header, which is a free self-serve subscription key from https://developer-apim.aeso.ca/signup. Use of the data is limited to non-commercial, personal or educational purposes under https://www.aeso.ca/legal/.
3 steps inputs: today outputs: currentSmp, poolPrice, supplyDemand
1
read-supply-demand
Alberta Total Net Generation, Net Actual Interchange, Alberta Internal Load, contingency reserve and the generation mix by fuel type.
2
read-current-smp
The live System Marginal Price that is setting the current settlement hour.
3
read-todays-pool-price
Today's completed settlement hours, with forecast price and 30-day rolling average.

Source API Descriptions

Arazzo Workflow Specification

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arazzo: 1.0.1
info:
  title: AESO live market snapshot
  summary: Take one coherent reading of the Alberta market — supply and demand balance, live system
    marginal price, and today's completed settlement-hour pool prices.
  version: 1.0.0
sourceDescriptions:
- name: currentsupplydemand-v2
  url: ../openapi/_original/aeso-currentsupplydemand-api-v2-openapi.json
  type: openapi
- name: systemmarginalprice
  url: ../openapi/_original/aeso-systemmarginalprice-api-v1-1-openapi.json
  type: openapi
- name: poolprice
  url: ../openapi/_original/aeso-poolprice-api-v1-1-openapi.json
  type: openapi
workflows:
- workflowId: aeso-market-snapshot
  summary: Read grid balance, live price and settled prices in one pass.
  description: >-
    Every step is an anonymous-schema GET on the AESO Azure APIM gateway and needs the API-KEY request
    header, which is a free self-serve subscription key from https://developer-apim.aeso.ca/signup.
    Use of the data is limited to non-commercial, personal or educational purposes under
    https://www.aeso.ca/legal/.
  inputs:
    type: object
    required:
    - today
    properties:
      today:
        type: string
        description: The date to settle prices for, in yyyy-MM-dd. Only completed settlement hours are
          returned.
        example: '2026-07-27'
  steps:
  - stepId: read-supply-demand
    description: Alberta Total Net Generation, Net Actual Interchange, Alberta Internal Load,
      contingency reserve and the generation mix by fuel type.
    operationId: getCSDSummaryDataReportv2
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      supplyDemand: $response.body
  - stepId: read-current-smp
    description: The live System Marginal Price that is setting the current settlement hour.
    operationId: getCurrentSystemMarginalPriceReport
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      currentSmp: $response.body
  - stepId: read-todays-pool-price
    description: Today's completed settlement hours, with forecast price and 30-day rolling average.
    operationId: getPoolPriceDateRangeReport
    parameters:
    - name: startDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.today
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      poolPrice: $response.body
  outputs:
    supplyDemand: $steps.read-supply-demand.outputs.supplyDemand
    currentSmp: $steps.read-current-smp.outputs.currentSmp
    poolPrice: $steps.read-todays-pool-price.outputs.poolPrice

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