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Wednesday Jun 7, 2023 |
After a flashy commercial with speeding cars down long stretches of highway and promises of high fuel efficiency, the same warning always plays- mileage may vary. Whether driving 70 MPH on empty freeways or stuck in traffic within city limits, so many factors go into how far a car will be able to ...
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Tuesday Jun 6, 2023 |
ERCOT has been walking a tight rope when it comes to being the leader when it comes to wind generation making its way to the grid as the last two months have been trending lower with April’s 2023 profile looking more like 2021 while the May 2023 took a life of its own and sliced down to ...
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Monday Jun 5, 2023 |
The West energy markets always seem to have some sort of twist and turn that creates discussion amongst the market participants. For example, in years past the natural gas space was all about the lack of storage tied to Aliso Canyon and an aging El Paso pipeline while the Pacific Northwest ...
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Friday Jun 2, 2023 |
Over the past two months, EnergyGPS has promoted it’s joint venture with Gary Ackerman, where the end game is provided market participants in the energy sector with a version of the ‘Burrito’ that incorporates all the usual sections Gary is notoriously known for along with a ...
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Thursday Jun 1, 2023 |
The month of May has seen relatively low demand across the country, as well as wind generation that has lagged behind last spring in many power markets which has combined to expose solar resources—in the old guard of CAISO as well as more recent rival for the crown of solar king in ERCOT, all ...
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Wednesday May 31, 2023 |
With Memorial Day weekend in the rearview, it’s the unofficial start of summer and the beginning of the end for spring outage season. Over the last few months, more than 35 nuclear power plants have gone offline for scheduled maintenance. Some were off for a few weeks, while others stopped ...
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Tuesday May 30, 2023 |
The month of May has delivered another round of weather chaos across the country as Western Canada (specifically Alberta) is dealing with forest fires that are ravaging areas that were once thought of as untouchable to the blazes themselves. The Pacific Northwest and now California was ...
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Friday May 26, 2023 |
ERCOT continues to be a focal point in the energy space as it has been a couple of years since Storm-Uri took the grid operations to the bring. Prior to the event, the grid was the leader when it came to wind capacity and the solar profile was just starting to percolate to where the volume ...
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Thursday May 25, 2023 |
Battery operators trying to capture the arbitrage in the SP15 real-time and day-ahead markets face many choices. One of these includes deciding whether to double-cycle and chase the price peaks in the morning ramp. The cycle of midday charging and evening dispatch is consistently profitable and ...
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Wednesday May 24, 2023 |
During the month of May, the power markets in the West have undergone a material change. After a lean winter in terms of supply including very dry conditions in the Pacific Northwest from a hydro perspective and thermal units both in the PNW as well as down in CAISO being called upon to ...
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