Energy market intelligence

In school they handed you a blank political map and told you to mark the features.

ARAY is that exercise run on the global energy system. Every zone gets marked with what it actually burns, what that costs the atmosphere, and what it means for whoever is looking at it.

The map is the same for everyone. The layers are not — a regulator, a trader and a lender are asking different questions of the same grid, and that difference is the business.

36
Indian zones, state-level
170
Countries on the map
399 GW
Installed capacity modelled
4
Zones on a measured feed
Drawing zones
gCO₂eq / kWh
0300600750+

Country shading is an indicative annual average compiled from published national electricity mixes. Indian zones are modelled from installed capacity × typical capacity factors (VEDAS + IPCC AR5); 4 carry a measured generation feed. Nothing here is a real-time trading signal — the method is stated in full below.

Cleanest Indian zones

  • Jammu & Kashmir24
  • Ladakh24
  • Sikkim24
  • Arunachal Pradesh24
  • Himachal Pradesh24

Most carbon-intensive Indian zones

  • Chhattisgarh808
  • Bihar806
  • Jharkhand801
  • Haryana771
  • Uttar Pradesh740

One grid. Five people looking at it for five different reasons.

Electricity Maps answers “how clean is the grid right now.” That is one question, asked by a general audience. The people who pay for energy intelligence are asking narrower questions — and each of them needs a different set of layers over the same geometry.

Regulator

Commissions & policy staff

Which zones are structurally locked into coal, and what does an order actually move?

  • Structural vs. dispatched intensity
  • Deviation & curtailment clusters
  • Order-to-map attribution

Generator

IPPs & gencos

Where does my fleet sit against the zone it sells into — and who is the marginal competitor?

  • Fleet vs. zone intensity delta
  • Curtailment risk by zone
  • Neighbouring capacity build-out

Trader

Market participants

Where does the mix flip overnight, and which zones carry the widest intensity spread?

  • Intraday mix volatility
  • Zone spread ranking
  • Hydro & wind seasonality

Lender

Investors & credit teams

How clean is this fleet structurally, before I underwrite twenty-five years of it?

  • Structural cleanliness score
  • Stranded-asset exposure by zone
  • Transition trajectory

Buyer

C&I & corporate energy

What is my Scope 2 where I actually operate, and where should the next site go?

  • Site-level grid intensity
  • Siting comparison
  • PPA sourcing zones

A sixth desk is a data question, not an engineering one. The geometry, the ingestion and the emission-factor engine are already shared — adding a stakeholder is adding a layer set and a person who writes the brief.

See what each tier opens

What is actually for sale today.

The free tier is not a demo — it is the credibility. Everything above it is the same data with history, export, a stakeholder lens, or your own boundaries on it.

Open

Free
forever, no account

The whole map, every source, the read API. This page is the product.

  • 36 Indian zones, state-level
  • 170 countries, indicative annual
  • Full method & emission factors
  • Public read API
  • History
  • Export
  • Desk briefs
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Pro

₹2,400
per seat / month

For the analyst who has to put a number in a deck by Thursday.

  • Everything in Open
  • Monthly history & snapshots
  • CSV / XLSX export, any zone
  • Embeddable zone widget
  • Threshold alerts by email
  • Desk briefs
Start with Pro

Desk

Core offer
₹18,000
per desk / month

Pick your side of the market. The map re-layers, and a person writes the brief.

  • Everything in Pro
  • One of five stakeholder desks
  • Monthly written brief tying map movement to CERC / SERC action
  • Quarterly review call
  • Three seats included
Choose a desk

Atlas

From ₹4.5L
per year

Your portfolio, your boundaries, your zones — the same engine, run privately.

  • Everything in Desk, unlimited seats
  • API keys with SLA
  • Private zones from your own boundary files
  • White-label & data-room exports
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Pricing is stated in rupees because the first zones that are worth paying for are Indian, and the first buyers are the commissions, gencos and consultancies that already read this data badly. The same ladder runs in dollars the day a second country reaches state-level depth.

Method, stated in full.

An energy map is only worth money if you can defend every number on it in a room full of people who know the sector. So the caveats sit on the page, not in a footnote.

Default carbon intensity is MODELLED from installed capacity x typical capacity factors, NOT measured generation. It shows the structural cleanliness of the fleet.

Connect the MERIT India feed (ingest/merit.py) to replace modelled mix with real 15-min generation by fuel for true live carbon intensity.

IPCC (2014), 5th Assessment Report, Working Group III, Chapter 7, Table 7.1 — Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions by electricity source (median gCO2eq/kWh).

Sources

capacity
VEDAS Energy Map of India (vedas.sac.gov.in) — installed capacity, state & region
live generation
MERIT India (meritindia.in, POSOCO) — optional live mix feed (pluggable)
emission factors
IPCC 2014 AR5 WGIII Ch.7 (lifecycle gCO2eq/kWh)
zone skeleton
Electricity Maps public zone metadata (IN + 5 regional sub-zones)

Lifecycle emission factors · gCO₂eq/kWh

coal820
gas490
oil / diesel650
hydro24
nuclear12
wind11
solar48
biomass230
geothermal38
waste230

Read the data yourself

Every zone on this map is served from one public endpoint. No key, no signup.

GET /api/aray/zones?scope=state&sort=ciTry it

Tell me which desk you sit at.

Pro and Desk open per zone, not all at once — the brief is only worth reading where the underlying data is deep enough to say something true. Say who you are and you get the next zone brief, the pricing detail, and a straight answer on whether ARAY is useful to you yet.

  • Built at the regulatorTwo years inside CERC reading the orders that move these numbers.
  • Open methodEmission factors, capacity factors and sources published on the page.
  • One engineAdding a country is a data problem. The map, the maths and the API do not change.

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