How Enercast Works

No. Enercast has no accounts and no passwords. The website is open to everyone. Alerts come to you by email or Telegram; when you subscribe to Pro or Institutional you are upgraded to the real-time feeds automatically — your email address and the device you subscribed from are your key, so the real-time alerts, cycle briefs and data downloads simply start arriving where the free ones did.

Free: the whole website, plus email/Telegram alerts for severity 4–5 notices and major intraday supply & demand updates, one hour after they post. Pro ($149/mo): real-time alerts within ~2 minutes of posting with the full AI trading note, the 2:45 AM ET supply & demand cycle, real-time intraday change alerts and daily data downloads. Institutional ($1,399/mo) adds meter-level data, API/JSON delivery and the full data library. Side-by-side comparison.

Critical notices and capacity offline are refreshed several times a day from the latest scoring cycles; the supply & demand summary publishes once a day by 7:30 AM ET. The website is the delayed view: Pro subscribers receive every alert within about two minutes of posting and the supply & demand update at 2:45 AM ET.

Pro and Institutional subscribers receive a Telegram message within ~2 minutes of a new notice posting on a pipeline’s bulletin board.

Yes. Both plans are month-to-month with no contracts. Cancel via Stripe’s customer portal in under 60 seconds.

Yes. Anything in the free alerts or on this website may be redistributed and republished, in whole or in part, as long as it carries full attribution to enercast.com with a link back to the page it came from. Pro and Institutional content is licensed to the subscriber and is not for redistribution.

No. Enercast provides pipeline operations data and AI-generated analysis for informational purposes only. Always apply your own judgment. See the disclaimer.

It is the AI’s read of market impact: 5 is a major event (force majeure, a large unplanned outage on a bottleneck), 1 is a routine bulletin. The full scale and scoring inputs.

Each notice gets a one-sentence directional implication referencing specific basis points (e.g. Transco Zone 4, Henry Hub, Waha) and capacity in Bcf/d.

All major U.S. interstate natural gas pipelines including Transco, FGT, EPNG, TGP, REX, SNG, CGT, Gulf South, Tallgrass, and more — 192 monitored in all. See all pipelines.

Coverage today is limited to FERC-jurisdictional interstate pipelines. Intrastate expansion is on the roadmap.

Pipelines revise notices often, sometimes dozens of times for one event. Enercast keeps every revision, shows the latest on the website, and only re-alerts when something material changes.

Several times a day, from the latest scoring cycle. The ledger is rebuilt from scratch each time, so a lift or extension changes the bar rather than adding a new one.

Either the pipeline posted a ceiling and not a reduction, or the notice gives no volume at all. Where posted operating capacity at the location dropped after the notice, an observed estimate is shown and labeled as such.

The notice had no end date and the pipeline has stopped re-listing it. It may have ended without a posted lift. Stale events are shown dashed and are not in the total.

No. “Due back” and “Starts” list the pipelines’ own posted dates. The next morning the ledger checks whether the capacity actually returned, and an outage whose end date passes without a return notice is shown as dropped off rather than counted as back.

At the compressor station, processing plant or LNG terminal named in the notice when Enercast has its location (from HIFLD public infrastructure data, matched by hand). When the notice names a stretch of pipe or a location we have not mapped yet, the marker sits on that pipeline’s line and its popup says “facility not located”. A few LNG feed pipelines with no public route data are drawn as dashed, schematic lines.

No. Every figure is a scheduled quantity a pipeline posted at a named meter on a named cycle, added up — not scaled to a national total. Why we do it this way.

Every figure is stamped with a fingerprint of the meter registry that produced it. When coverage is added, the fingerprint changes and the site will not print a change across that boundary — a dash and a note instead of a fake move.

Postings only exist where posting is required. The main gaps are Texas intrastate pipelines, flows behind the citygate, and California’s utility-run systems. Coverage of the interstate system keeps rising as meters are validated and added.

Enercast (enercast.com) is owned and operated by Ben Smith Consulting, a Denver, Colorado business led by founder Ben Smith. About.

No. Enercast (enercast.com) is a Denver, Colorado natural gas pipeline data service; the enercast.com name has been in use since 2003. enercast GmbH (enercast.de) is an unrelated German company, founded in 2011, that provides renewable energy forecasting.

No. Enercast is an independent data service. All data comes from public pipeline postings, and we are not affiliated with, and do not receive data directly from, any pipeline operator.