Electricity in Chicago is … right now.
Power prices change every five minutes. GridPrice shows you the live price, when it'll be cheapest, and what a load of laundry actually costs — so you run the big stuff when electricity is cheap.
Android app available now · Google Play and App Store listings coming soon
Real ComEd prices, fetched live from this page — the same data the app and widget use.
Know the price. Time the power.
On hourly pricing, the same dryer load can cost 3× more at dinnertime than at dawn. GridPrice makes the difference visible.
Home-screen widget
The current price, color-coded by level, with the reading time. Tap to open, refresh in place, updates around the clock with live updates on.
Price alerts
Set a floor and a ceiling. Get a notification the moment power drops below your target — or spikes above it.
Cost estimator
What an EV charge, dryer load, or AC hour costs at the current price versus the day's cheapest window.
History & trends
Interactive charts over any range, daily averages, and the highs and lows with exactly when they happened.
Cheapest hours
An hour-by-hour heatmap of average prices and the cheapest 3-hour stretch to schedule appliances into.
Pick your utility
Choose your state and power company once — every screen, alert, and the widget follows your utility's live feed.
Coverage
Built on public price feeds. Illinois has true residential hourly-pricing programs; Texas and New York show the live wholesale index that dynamic retail plans track.
Illinois
- ComEd — Hourly Pricing (5-minute, live)
- Ameren Illinois — Power Smart Pricing (day-ahead hourly)
Texas
- Houston (CenterPoint)
- Dallas–Ft. Worth (Oncor)
- Austin · San Antonio
- South & West Texas
New York
- New York City (Con Edison)
- Long Island (PSEG LI)
- Hudson Valley · Capital
- Central · West
Plains states
- Oklahoma · Kansas
- Nebraska
- South Dakota
- North Dakota
Contact
GridPrice is built by James Clay Patton. Questions, feedback, or want your utility added?