The grids

Dozens of balancing authorities run the lower 48, and the same federal feed reports every one of them. Aquadrio reads that feed on the hour and asks each grid one question: clean enough, right now, to certify compute? Most hours, almost everywhere, the answer is no. This page is where that answer lives in public.

Reading the board

Each tile is one balancing authority. The rail marks its latest-published carbon intensity against the one gate every meter uses: 100 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour, the same line the RCC Standard publishes. A gate reads open or shut from the grid data alone. Where a meter is installed the tile says so, and the certification calls live in that meter's cockpit; an open gate elsewhere certifies nothing, because nobody measured any compute there. The feed is delayed, and each tile carries its own measured delay rather than a promise of real time.

Method

Data: EIA-930 Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (U.S. Energy Information Administration, public domain), served on its published lag and labeled with the measured delay. Carbon intensity is computed from each authority's reported fuel mix with the factor table published in the RCC Standard; the meters run the same computation on the same table. Water intensity is consumption, never withdrawal, on a cooling-typed regional basis with the basis named on every figure. Historical rates count the carbon gate alone; a meter's certification additionally requires the water gate and a measured job, so the table is an upper bound on what any grid could certify.