New York – September 25, 2026 -- Texture has released CommonGrid, an open, Wikipedia-style database that maps every U.S. electric utility, grid operator, power plant, and major grid asset into a single searchable model.
Texture builds a single registry from data once scattered across hundreds of sources
CommonGrid aggregates U.S. investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, municipal utilities, and federal power agencies alongside ISOs, RTOs, and balancing authorities into one connected graph. The dataset covers solar, wind, nuclear, gas, and hydro plants above 1 MW, transmission lines from 69 kV to 765 kV, every public EV charging station with network and plug-standard details, wholesale pricing nodes across seven ISOs/RTOs, substations normalized from OpenStreetMap at 69 kV and above, and utility programs, rebates, and tariff structures.
Every edit is attributed, sourced, and reversible
Changes to the database are proposed by contributors, cited to a source, timestamped, and reviewed by an elected moderation team before merging into an hourly snapshot. "No single company can keep an accurate model of the U.S. grid on its own," said Victor Quinn, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Texture, noting that utilities launch programs, retire assets, and change rates faster than any one organization can track.
CommonGrid targets a fragmented mapping problem utilities have solved independently
Sanjiv Sanghavi, Co-founder and CEO of Texture, said every co-op and utility his company works with has separately rebuilt a version of the same service-territory map, producing inconsistent answers across the industry. CommonGrid is designed to replace those private maps with a single public record that improves each time a utility or operator corrects its own data.
Municipal utility boundaries are the priority gap needing community input
Investor-owned utility and cooperative territories are already well mapped, but municipal utility boundaries require local knowledge to complete, according to Texture. The company is soliciting community edits specifically on muni service areas as a starting point for contributions.
Data access is free via API or weekly snapshots
Researchers and developers can query CommonGrid through a REST API allowing 60 requests per hour without a key or 5,000 with a free key, or download weekly database snapshots in SQL or GeoJSON format from the project's GitHub repository. CommonGrid is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, the same license governing OpenStreetMap, permitting commercial use and redistribution provided users attribute the source and share improvements back to the project.
The release arrives as U.S. grid operators face rising demand from AI data centers and electrification, a wave of new distributed and intermittent generation, and aging infrastructure converging simultaneously.