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Monday Jan 21, 2019 |
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As anticipated, Mother Nature is bringing her A game when it comes to dropping colder weather on most of the Lower 48. The pattern actually started last week along the West Coast as both the Pacific Northwest and California saw below normal temperatures. From a precipitation standpoint ...
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Friday Jan 18, 2019 |
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Close on the heels of year-end "best of" lists, the news media and trend-followers issue their New Year predictions. According to the tech and energy pundits I regularly follow, 2019 will be the year of the intelligent virtual assistants both for consumer electronics generally (Brian X Chen ...
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Thursday Jan 17, 2019 |
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The winter started off with a bang as temperatures dropped in November giving a warning shot to the market. The cold weather caused gas markets to rally with storage levels below 5 year minimums. Last week we covered how the increase in gas prices drove gas to coal switching throughout PJM.
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Wednesday Jan 16, 2019 |
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The government shutdown continues as we are in the 4th week where the division of party views seems to be at a stand still while many government workers are still coming to work only to bank their hours in hopes that business gets back to normal and checks get written and the bills need to be ...
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Tuesday Jan 15, 2019 |
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It has been a long time since we have had the opportunity to talk about heating load across the Lower 48. The climate has been in an El Nino pattern since the beginning of December which has kept the demand well below normal. But over the weekend the models confirmed a big change in the outlook.
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Monday Jan 14, 2019 |
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Over the years, the Western Markets have been one of the most volatile across all of North America. On the power side, we have the largest hydro system in the Lower 48 as well as a state (California) that started pushing their Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) a few years back and have ...
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Friday Jan 11, 2019 |
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To be 14 years old again, what a blast!! As I picked up my son from school, he asked if we could go to Taco Bell and get an 'Arctic Blast' drink as he was thirsty and it sounded good. I was like, "what the heck is an Arctic Blast?" He described it to me as a somewhat healthy drink ...
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Thursday Jan 10, 2019 |
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While I was out on a walk through the park, I noticed smoke billowing out of a chimney in the distance. I couldn’t help but think of how coal generation had ramped earlier this winter and wondered if this was still the case. As I reached my computer the following day, started to look at the ...
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Wednesday Jan 9, 2019 |
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Yesterday morning on my drive into work, I got a call from my mother, who still lives in God's Country (Wisconsin). At this stage in my parents life, my heart starts pounding for all the wrong reasons as the first thought is something must have happened back home. To my joy, it was just ...
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Tuesday Jan 8, 2019 |
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Recent weakness in the daily supply demand balancing has allowed the cash prices along the Gulf to drop back below the futures prices. This reverses a trend that has been in place since June with cash rices remaining well over the futures values. The result is that we have been getting ...
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