New York State, USA

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for operating the state’s bulk electricity grid, administering New York’s competitive wholesale electricity markets, conducting comprehensive long-term planning for the state’s electric power system, and advancing the technological infrastructure of the electric system serving the Empire State. Tho operator provides a lot of realtime and historical load, pricing, grid and zonal weather data.

Data Description

Name	Value
Number of time series	11
Number of attributes	8
Type of data	Energy Load Consumption
Unit	MW
Period (measurements per day)	288
Number of observations in one dataset	1 051 776
Start date	2006-01-01 00:00:00
End date	2015-12-31 23:55:00
Number of days	3 652
Missing values	NO
Daylight saving time	NO (removed from data)
Total number of observations	11 569 536

Attribute Information

Each dataset contains 8 attributes:

• id - record ID
• date - date of measurement (from 2006-01-01 to 2015-12-31)
• time - time of measurement (00:00:00, 00:05:00, …, 23:55:00)
• dateTime - concatenation of date and time (2006-01-01 00:00:00, …)
• dayOfWeek - integer value representing day of week
  • 1 - Mon, 2 - Tue, …, 7 - Sun
• holiday - boolean value
  • 0 - non holiday (regular) day, 1 - holiday day
• dayId - day ID (from 1 to 3652)
• load - load consumption (MW)

Public Holidays in New York

Date	Name
January 1*	New Year’s Day
3rd Monday in January	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 19*	Lincoln’s Birthday
3rd Monday in February	Washington’s Birthday
Last Monday in May	Memorial Day
July 4*	Independence Day
1st Monday in September	Labor Day
2nd Monday in October	Columbus Day
1st Tuesday in November	Election Day
November 10*	Veterans Day
4th Thursday in November	Thanksgiving
December 25*	Christmas Day

*Under the Attendance Rules when a holiday falls on a Sunday it is observed on the following Monday.

 

 

A dataset with the dates of all New York State Public Holidays from 2006 to 2015 is available here.