you can see the whole midwest power market on this map
with neatly color coded areas showing what (apparently) the
spot price of power is in each region.
blue map good, red map bad.
I haven't seen it at peak power times, but the rest of
that site is talking about emergency emergency alert
1 status for the midwest
A NERC Energy Emergency Alert 1 is possible if a control area's
forecasts (for a week or less) anticipate conditions where all
available resources, including imports, are committed to meet firm
load, firm transactions and reserve commitments, and there is concern
about sustaining required operating reserves when all possible
economic and discretionary actions, including curtailing nonfirm
wholesale energy sales are included in the forecasts.
levels go 1, 2, 3 where 2 is brownouts and 3 is blackouts.
thanks
Ed
Edward Vielmetti