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Friday Oct 4, 2024 |
Growing up in the 1970s, a lot of my time and energy was spent riding my bike around to either play baseball, deliver newspapers, or buy comic books. Of the three hobbies, it was baseball really peaked my interest as it was and still is America's pasttime sport. The professional teams ...
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Thursday Oct 3, 2024 |
With another cycle coming to an end earlier this week, the Pacific Northwest hydro system is looking at another change-over of the calendar as we had the kick-off the 2025 water year on Tuesday, October 1st. It’s a change-over period at Energy GPS as well, as we put together our full ...
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Wednesday Oct 2, 2024 |
With the start of October yesterday, shoulder season and the nuclear outages that come with it are firmly upon us. We wrote a report back in August about our expectations for this fall’s nuclear outage season. Based on historical patterns, we looked at fall 2018 as the template for this ...
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Tuesday Oct 1, 2024 |
October has arrived, ushering in the autumn season and marking a departure from the long summer days. As the weather shifts, the energy landscape is also subject to change. The extended hours of summer sunlight gradually shorten, and overnight and morning temperatures drop significantly. This ...
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Monday Sep 30, 2024 |
Prior to the influx of renewables mandated by the State of California, the summer-time peaking load relied on both transmission flows from adjacent balancing regions, base load nuclear and in-state natural gas-fired generators that sat in the LA Basin, the middle portion of the CAISO footprint ...
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Friday Sep 27, 2024 |
The figure below shows the daily low and average SP15 RTM prices from January – August 2024. This spring, average daily prices settled at negative numbers on some days while hourly prices reached as low as negative -$103/MWh. Across Q2 2024, the SP15 solar capture ratio (solar-weighted ...
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Thursday Sep 26, 2024 |
Coming into the summer there were questions all around about how the PJM grid would fare. The expansion of data centers around DC and the growth of crypto facilities threatened to produce further structural load increases in the continuation of the pattern that has been playing out not only ...
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Wednesday Sep 25, 2024 |
South to North congestion has been a key feature in SP15 and NP15 day-ahead and real-time pricing in the last two weeks. With lowered demand and abundant solar, the midday SP15 prices have sunk below the $0/MWh mark for several days. This is good news for SP15 batteries, which can charge during ...
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Monday Sep 23, 2024 |
It is hard to believe that we are already looking the last full week of September 2024, which means that it is officially Fall as the seasons changed over the weekend. Mother Nature has displayed fall-like weather across the West for the past 10 days while a little hiccup is on display early ...
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Friday Sep 20, 2024 |
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the increase in solar capacity in MISO over the past few years. Today, we wanted to expand that topic to renewables in MISO more generally, and the increase in renewable market share. Market share of a resource is defined as the total MWh of generation from that ...
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