# Kardashev Labs

> Open-source software for US energy grid intelligence — real-time grid demand monitoring, interconnection queue tracking, wholesale electricity prices (LMP), and daily renewable curtailment data. Built for the energy transition.

Kardashev Labs builds free, open-source tools that give energy professionals access to US grid data that was previously scattered across multiple government and ISO/RTO sources. The mission: accelerate humanity toward Kardashev Type I by making energy infrastructure data universally accessible.

## Live Tools

- [Interconnection Queue Tracker](https://interconnection-queue.kardashevlabs.org): Unified search across all 7 major US ISO/RTO interconnection queues — ERCOT, MISO, PJM, CAISO, SPP, NYISO, and ISO-NE. Tracks every power project waiting to connect to the US grid. Data refreshed daily via automated GitHub Actions pipelines.

- [Grid Demand Dashboard](https://grid-demand.kardashevlabs.org): Real-time US electricity demand monitoring across 15 balancing authorities, covering approximately 95% of the continental United States (CONUS). EIA and ISO data served via the kardashev-data platform.

- [Curtailment Tracker](https://curtailment-tracker.kardashevlabs.org): Daily solar and wind curtailment across CAISO (California), SPP (Southwest Power Pool), and ERCOT (Texas), with a 90-day rolling history. Shows where the grid is congested and where battery storage is needed most.

- [LMP Dashboard](https://lmp.kardashevlabs.org): Real-time and day-ahead locational marginal prices (wholesale electricity prices) across NYISO, PJM, CAISO, and SPP — energy, congestion, and loss components per hub, plus fuel mix, natural gas prices, weather, and battery storage.

- [Data API](https://data.kardashevlabs.org): The shared data layer (kardashev-data) — a read-only API serving fuel mix, carbon intensity, curtailment, LMP, load, gas, weather, and interconnection queue data ingested from ISO/RTO and EIA sources.

## Key Facts

- All tools are free and open source (MIT license)
- Source code available at https://github.com/kardashev-lab
- Shared datasets available at https://data.kardashevlabs.org via [kardashev-data](https://github.com/kardashev-lab/kardashev-data)
- Interconnection Queue Tracker covers: ERCOT, MISO, PJM, CAISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE (7 ISO/RTOs)
- Grid Demand Dashboard covers 15 US balancing authorities, ~95% CONUS electricity
- Curtailment Tracker covers CAISO, SPP, and ERCOT with daily refresh
- LMP Dashboard covers NYISO, PJM, CAISO, and SPP with 5-minute real-time prices
- Grid data sourced from ISO/RTO public feeds and the US Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Site: https://kardashevlabs.org
- Contact: ashutosh@kardashevlabs.org
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kardashev-labs

## Approach

Kardashev Labs follows three principles: Plan (concrete schedules and policies, evidence-first), Prove (baselines and measured deltas — "if we can't explain it, we don't deploy it"), and Scale (automation only where data supports it).

## About the Name

The Kardashev scale is a method for measuring a civilization's technological advancement based on energy use. A Kardashev Type I civilization can harness all energy available on its planet. Kardashev Labs works toward that goal by building tools that improve how humanity understands and manages its energy systems.