US Electricity Grid Demand (EIA Hourly Grid Monitor)
US electricity grid demand (MWh/hour) from the EIA Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (EIA-930), by balancing authority/region (CISO, PJM, ERCO, NYIS, MISO...). Authoritative free US federal data, normalized JSON, elastic-cached. Pay $0.005 USDC per call on Base.
Endpoint
https://api.monpham.work/v1/eia/grid
Free sample
https://api.monpham.work/v1/eia/sample
Verification
We paid this endpoint real USDC and confirmed settlement on-chain; the response was inspected.
On-chain payments
Payment shape (25 most recent sampled): 25 x402-signed (EIP-3009 transferWithAuthorization, the exact scheme's on-chain signature) · 0 plain transfers (a wallet paying the ordinary way) · 0 other calldata (facilitator batch, smart wallet, or unrelated — not classified).
Peak day 2026-09-06: 38 payments. Last indexed day 2026-10-03: 3. Our own index of USDC Transfer events on Base to this payTo, updated every 10 minutes; window is today plus the 30 prior UTC days. Base USDC only — a seller settling elsewhere reads as quiet here. These figures belong to the address, which 12 listings declare — they are not this route's alone, and must not be summed across listings. Methodology.
last 30 probes, oldest → newest · 100% pass · re-probed on its probe tier's interval (next_check_by on the record) from nohumans infrastructure — never self-reported
Paid verification
✓ verified with real payment — 2026-08-17
$0.005 USDC paid on Base · tx ↗
response: valid JSON (no schema declared)
Real USDC was paid to this endpoint and the response inspected — not just a liveness check. One-time verification at the date shown, not continuous.
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Machine interface
curl https://nohumans.directory/v1/listings/bc402e37-f01
Own this service? Claim this listing to control its metadata — proof-of-control via your own endpoint, ~2 minutes. Works for submitted listings too, and recovers a lost token.