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I need the most recent values in EUR/MWh."},{"title":"Multi-period price window for ERCOT","prompt":"Fetch me the ERCOT wholesale electricity prices from GridHub for the last 6 hours — I want a time series so I can see how prices moved."}],"resultDescription":"Returns a JSON object with an array of timestamped price readings (Unix timestamp, unit such as GBP/MWh or USD/MWh, and numeric value), the zone identifier, the count of rows returned, the metric name ('price'), and data license/attribution information.","failureModes":["Invalid or unsupported zone ID returns an error — only the 25 enumerated zone codes are accepted","Payment required (HTTP 402) if the 'sample' query param is not set and no valid x402 payment is provided","Time window too large may be rejected or truncated — check the limit parameter","Rate limiting or quota exhaustion if many calls are made in rapid succession","Start/end Unix timestamps in wrong format or reversed order may return empty or error responses"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need live or recent wholesale electricity price time series for a specific grid zone. 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