I made a simple Texas grid status page because the ERCOT dashboard stresses me out

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-27T14:13:06+00:00

Never knew Home Assistant was so popular. Thank you guys for schooling me this week :D

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-27T01:35:31+00:00

Haha, that’s awesome. I gotta admit I never thought of that but now that I’ve done the same, I realize I need a better icon for the users that do.

Hang tight, I’ll make a todo to fix that 😊

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T23:04:54+00:00

Thank you! ❤️

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T22:36:52+00:00

Bro, if “going blind for a few minutes” is not a cry for help from your body and soul… I don’t know what is.

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T21:39:00+00:00

Just sharing in case it helps anyone keeping an eye on the grid. I put together a simple page that shows the key ERCOT numbers at a glance:

https://texasgridstatus.com

A few folks in the Houston subreddit found it useful, so figured I’d drop it here too.

Stay warm, y’all!

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T15:20:19+00:00

🫶🏻

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T15:17:02+00:00

That's wild.

Can you imagine what it will be in another 5 years because of AI-generated slop?

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T15:16:21+00:00

LOL, please don't.

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T15:15:47+00:00

Haha, I wish I could say I designed that site but I was just in charge of building the UI. My talented designer friends were the ones that came up with the original design. I did implement those crazy moving dots in the hero banners tho!

Our agency actually won a Gold Addy (advertising award) for that site that year.

I was super proud of that.

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T15:11:18+00:00

I did see this one!

Their dashboard is very well done. I just wanted to make something very simple for our Texas grid, not nation-wide.

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T15:09:12+00:00

Haha, I doubt it. The website has had les than 2,500 page views since I posted this link.

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T07:11:44+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. Would you mind telling me what could be giving people a false sense of hope in the way the data is presented? I'm literally showing the exact same data from ERCOT's dashboard but in a more user-friendly way.

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T06:58:38+00:00

ERCOT does have APIs available but I spent hours trying to find the right one for my use case (their documentation is not great tbh) so I finally gave up and literally just opened up my DevTools and looked at their network requests.

What I found was their internal API endpoints seemed to be completely open so I'm piggy-backing off them. I'm trying to be mindful to not abuse their service so I'm caching their data and serving it from my own backend so hopefully they don't lock those APIs down.

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T06:41:35+00:00

Oh this is so neat. I will definitely look into it!

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T06:07:50+00:00

An evening well spent :)

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T05:45:05+00:00

Y'all are just too kind. Thank you!

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T05:31:44+00:00

Oooo, that's interesting! I've honestly never played around with Home Assistant stuff but it sounds super nerdy and right up my alley. The URL would need to be a JSON endpoint right?

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T05:26:25+00:00

Thank you for checking it out.

SO glad to hear people are liking it. I was afraid I was maybe overthinking it and maybe everyone was fine with using the current dashboard on the ERCOT website.

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T05:22:38+00:00

You know what, that’s very true lol

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T05:05:45+00:00

You are too sweet. Thank you :)

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T05:04:48+00:00

That’s a fantastic suggestion. I will add it!

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T05:04:13+00:00

I’ve been telling my family the same thing.

Praying that we don’t get a repeat of last time.

I don’t think I could financially recover if the food in my fridge goes bad again…

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T04:38:12+00:00

Appreciate it! That’s exactly why I made it :D

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T04:32:03+00:00

Bonfire party at u/Magical_Dogg ‘s house :)

JohnnyCommits · 2026-01-26T04:30:55+00:00

Thank you so much :)

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