get_hosting_capacity
Feeder Hosting Capacity
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Utility-PUBLISHED feeder hosting capacity — the MW a NAMED distribution feeder can actually take, straight from the utility's own hosting-capacity GIS. 278,799 published records across 18 utilities (Con Edison, National Grid NY/MA, NYSEG/RG&E, Rhode Island Energy, Orange & Rockland, Central Hudson, Eversource CT, BGE, Pepco/Delmarva/ACE, Dominion VA, Ameren Illinois, AEP Ohio & I&M, Xcel MN/CO, DTE, Avista). This is filed distribution-level truth, not a proximity proxy. Three ways to call it: lat+lon (+radius_km, default 25) for a point; utility or market for a whole published territory; NO ARGS for the coverage list of every market that has data. CRITICAL — check capacity_type before quoting any number: "load" = LOAD-serving headroom, what a new data-center load can actually DRAW (only Ameren Illinois, AEP Ohio & I&M and Central Hudson publish it); "gen" = DER/generation EXPORT capacity, what the feeder can ACCEPT from solar/storage — it is NOT available load and must never be relayed as "you can site N MW here"; "bus_headroom" = transmission bus MW. Returns, split by capacity_type: distinct feeder count, max + median MW, the top feeders with substation, voltage_kv, feeder_id, coords and publish date, plus the utilities publishing them. Honest by construction — published rows are GIS vertices, so distinct_feeders and geometry_rows_scanned are reported separately (never conflated), and a capacity-capped read is flagged sample_complete=false with the capacity_floor_mw at or above which the set IS provably complete. Coverage is 18 utilities concentrated in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest — NOT nationwide — and a point outside them returns an explicit not-published answer with the nearest covered markets, never a silent zero. Answers "can this feeder actually take 20 MW", "where can I plug in without waiting on a substation upgrade". Try: get_hosting_capacity utility="Ameren Illinois" capacity_type=load min_mw=5. Do NOT use for transmission-substation proximity or time-to-power (use get_grid_intelligence), the ISO interconnection queue (use get_interconnection_queue / get_refined_queue), or retiring-plant headroom (use get_retirement_headroom) — this is the distribution FEEDER layer. Informational, not binding interconnection guidance; verify with the utility.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| lat | number | no | Latitude of the point to search around, decimal degrees. Must be paired with lon. |
| lon | number | no | Longitude of the point to search around, decimal degrees. Must be paired with lat. |
| latitude | number | no | Alias for lat — either name works |
| lng | number | no | Alias for lon — either name works |
| longitude | number | no | Alias for lon — either name works |
| radius_km | number | no | Search radius in km around lat/lon (default 25, max 150). Ignored when utility/market is passed — that mode covers the utility's entire published extent. |
| utility | string | no | Utility or market name, case-insensitive substring — e.g. "Ameren Illinois", "Con Edison", "Providence". Searches that utility's whole published territory instead of a point radius. Call with NO arguments to list every covered utility. |
| market | string | no | Alias for utility — either name works (e.g. "Northern Virginia · Richmond", "New York City · Westchester"). |
| capacity_type | string | no | Restrict to one published type: "load" (what a new data-center load can DRAW — the type that answers siting), "gen" (DER/generation EXPORT headroom — NOT available load), or "bus_headroom" (transmission bus MW). Omit to get all three reported separately. |
| min_mw | number | no | Only return feeders whose published capacity is at or above this many MW. |
| limit | integer | no | Max results to return (1-500; default varies by tool) |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"lat": {
"description": "Latitude of the point to search around, decimal degrees. Must be paired with lon.",
"type": "number"
},
"lon": {
"description": "Longitude of the point to search around, decimal degrees. Must be paired with lat.",
"type": "number"
},
"latitude": {
"description": "Alias for lat — either name works",
"type": "number"
},
"lng": {
"description": "Alias for lon — either name works",
"type": "number"
},
"longitude": {
"description": "Alias for lon — either name works",
"type": "number"
},
"radius_km": {
"description": "Search radius in km around lat/lon (default 25, max 150). Ignored when utility/market is passed — that mode covers the utility's entire published extent.",
"type": "number",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 150
},
"utility": {
"description": "Utility or market name, case-insensitive substring — e.g. \"Ameren Illinois\", \"Con Edison\", \"Providence\". Searches that utility's whole published territory instead of a point radius. Call with NO arguments to list every covered utility.",
"type": "string"
},
"market": {
"description": "Alias for utility — either name works (e.g. \"Northern Virginia · Richmond\", \"New York City · Westchester\").",
"type": "string"
},
"capacity_type": {
"description": "Restrict to one published type: \"load\" (what a new data-center load can DRAW — the type that answers siting), \"gen\" (DER/generation EXPORT headroom — NOT available load), or \"bus_headroom\" (transmission bus MW). Omit to get all three reported separately.",
"type": "string"
},
"min_mw": {
"description": "Only return feeders whose published capacity is at or above this many MW.",
"type": "number"
},
"limit": {
"description": "Max results to return (1-500; default varies by tool)",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 500
}
}
}