AESO price formation trace

arazzo: 1.0.1
info:
  title: AESO price formation trace
  summary: Reconstruct why Alberta's price cleared where it did — the offer stack, the units directed
    online, the outages that removed supply, and the resulting system marginal and pool prices.
  version: 1.0.0
sourceDescriptions:
- name: energymeritorder
  url: ../openapi/aeso-energymeritorder-api-v1-openapi.json
  type: openapi
- name: unitcommitmentdata-v2
  url: ../openapi/aeso-unitcommitmentdata-api-v2-openapi.json
  type: openapi
- name: aiesgencapacity
  url: ../openapi/aeso-aiesgencapacity-api-v1-openapi.json
  type: openapi
- name: systemmarginalprice
  url: ../openapi/aeso-systemmarginalprice-api-v1-1-openapi.json
  type: openapi
- name: poolprice
  url: ../openapi/aeso-poolprice-api-v1-1-openapi.json
  type: openapi
workflows:
- workflowId: aeso-price-formation
  summary: Merit order, unit commitment and outages against the realised price series.
  description: >-
    Note that unit commitment directives publish 60 days after the Unit Commitment End Time, so this
    workflow is retrospective for that step. Requires a free API-KEY subscription key.
  inputs:
    type: object
    required:
    - startDate
    properties:
      startDate:
        type: string
        description: The trading day to trace, in yyyy-MM-dd.
        example: '2026-05-01'
      endDate:
        type: string
        description: Optional last day of the price window, in yyyy-MM-dd. Range reports return at most
          one year per request.
        example: '2026-05-07'
  steps:
  - stepId: read-merit-order
    description: The stacked energy offers that determine which generation is dispatched and where the
      price clears.
    operationId: getMeritOrderReport
    parameters:
    - name: startDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.startDate
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      meritOrder: $response.body
  - stepId: read-unit-commitment
    description: Directives that brought generating units online ahead of dispatch.
    operationId: getUnitCommitmentDataReportV11ForDateRange
    parameters:
    - name: startDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.startDate
    - name: endDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.endDate
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      unitCommitment: $response.body
  - stepId: read-generation-outages
    description: Generation capacity and generator outages that removed supply from the stack.
    operationId: getAIESControlReport
    parameters:
    - name: startDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.startDate
    - name: endDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.endDate
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      genCapacity: $response.body
  - stepId: read-system-marginal-price
    description: The realised real-time price signal across the window.
    operationId: getSystemMarginalPriceReportForDateRange
    parameters:
    - name: startDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.startDate
    - name: endDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.endDate
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      systemMarginalPrice: $response.body
  - stepId: read-pool-price
    description: The settled hourly pool price to compare against the offer stack.
    operationId: getPoolPriceDateRangeReport
    parameters:
    - name: startDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.startDate
    - name: endDate
      in: query
      value: $inputs.endDate
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      poolPrice: $response.body
  outputs:
    meritOrder: $steps.read-merit-order.outputs.meritOrder
    unitCommitment: $steps.read-unit-commitment.outputs.unitCommitment
    genCapacity: $steps.read-generation-outages.outputs.genCapacity
    systemMarginalPrice: $steps.read-system-marginal-price.outputs.systemMarginalPrice
    poolPrice: $steps.read-pool-price.outputs.poolPrice