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Open Source · Kardashev Type I<br>Building tools that accelerate<br>humanity's energy future<br>Open-source software for real-time grid demand, interconnection queues, wholesale electricity prices, and renewable curtailment — built for the humans working on the energy transition.<br>Explore Live ToolsView on GitHubRead the vision<br>Scroll
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LiveInterconnection Queue Tracker<br>Every US power project waiting to connect to the grid.<br>Unified search across all 7 major ISO/RTO interconnection queues — ERCOT, MISO, PJM, CAISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE. Daily refresh via GitHub Actions. One interface for the data that used to require 7 browser tabs.<br>ISOs covered
Daily<br>data refresh
GW+<br>queue capacity tracked
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LiveGrid Demand Dashboard<br>Real-time US electricity demand across 15 balancing authorities.<br>Microservices pipeline — Redis Streams, Postgres, Kubernetes with 17 HPAs. 95% CONUS coverage. 23ms chaos recovery, 215 req/s under load.<br>15<br>balancing authorities
95%<br>CONUS coverage
23ms<br>chaos recovery
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LiveCurtailment Tracker<br>How much clean energy gets thrown away — every day, by ISO.<br>Daily solar and wind curtailment across CAISO (California), SPP (Great Plains), and ERCOT (Texas). 90-day rolling history. Reveals where the grid is congested and where storage is needed most. Refreshed each morning.<br>ISOs tracked
90d<br>rolling history
Daily<br>data refresh
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LiveLMP Dashboard<br>Electricity spot prices across the US grid — every 5 minutes.<br>Real-time and day-ahead locational marginal prices across NYISO, PJM, CAISO, and SPP. Energy, congestion, and loss components per hub node. Fuel mix by source, Henry Hub gas prices, grid temperatures, renewable curtailment, and battery storage — all in one terminal.<br>ISOs covered
5-min<br>RT price refresh
RT + DA<br>market depth
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DeployingEnergy Transition Tracker<br>Is the grid actually getting cleaner? Here's the data.<br>Carbon intensity and clean energy progress across CAISO, NYISO, PJM, ERCOT, MISO, SPP, and ISONE. National weighted average, ISO rankings, 30-day carbon trends, and fuel mix shifts — all in one view.<br>ISOs tracked
Live<br>carbon intensity
30d<br>trend window
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DeployingGrid State Intelligence<br>The 5-minute brief on the US power grid.<br>Reserve margins, load trends, curtailment hotspots, queue backlog, and gas fundamentals — auto-computed alerts when something looks wrong. Built for energy developers, system planners, and regulators.<br>ISOs monitored
Live<br>alerts
5-min<br>data refresh
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DeployingInterconnection Intelligence<br>Where should you build? The interconnection queue, analyzed.<br>Withdrawal rates, cohort survival, and time-to-interconnect across all US ISOs. Of projects entering in 2020, what % got built? Which ISOs have the lowest withdrawal rates? Answers the questions developers actually ask.<br>~70%<br>avg withdrawal rate
3+ yrs<br>avg queue wait
2010+<br>cohort history
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Open source on GitHub<br>Source code, data pipelines, and infrastructure — all public under kardashev-lab.
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VisionEnergy and compute, used with unprecedented wisdom.<br>Evidence replaces guesswork. Efficiency becomes the default interface to power. We build the tools that help teams make data-driven decisions that scale — toward a civilization that uses every joule and every FLOP with intention.
“If we can't explain it, we don't deploy it.”
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How we buildThree pillars.
01<br>Plan<br>Concrete schedules and policies. Evidence first, assumptions labeled, advisory before automation.
02<br>Prove<br>Baselines, assumptions, and measured deltas. If we can't explain it, we don't deploy it.
03<br>Scale<br>Automation only where data supports it. Systems that compound without compounding risk.
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