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Monday Dec 9, 2024 |
Some stories are here one day and gone the next. An eclipse, a fire, a generation failure, our industry is full of exciting, one-time events. Other stories move more slowly and keep on giving. This is the case with CAISO’s intrastate transmissions. Late 2023 into early 2024 saw a big leap in ...
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Friday Dec 6, 2024 |
For more than three years the Mid-Columbia has been the premium electricity market in the United States. What was once known as the low-cost, hydro-based wholesale market came roaring to life in 2021. The factors contributing to the bullish run at the Mid-Columbia were multi-fold – (1) load ...
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Thursday Dec 5, 2024 |
As frequent readers will be aware, the content we publish as part of our eCommerce product offerings, including regular articles, special reports, and monthly reports cast a wide net, touching upon the hot issues and news in markets across the country and focusing on everything in gas and power ...
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Wednesday Dec 4, 2024 |
Just a few days ago, the calendar page flipped to the last month in 2024. This means there is new content available at EnergyGPS as the first of the month marks the publication of new monthly dashboards. If you’re subscribed to our Platinum Plus package, you have access to two new battery ...
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Monday Dec 2, 2024 |
Despite the holiday, energy and gas markets did not disappear over the weekend, although they did look a bit sluggish. Now, on Monday morning, we were curious just how reliable the holiday downturn in demand is. Put another way, with nothing but market data to go off of, could someone reliably ...
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Wednesday Nov 27, 2024 |
Winter weather descended on Alberta last week. Overnight lows dropped to the single digits and then below 0 degrees. Negative temperatures are expected to continue through this week. The figure below features our 15-day heating degree day matrix with the date of the forecast on the y-axis and the ...
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Tuesday Nov 26, 2024 |
As the Lower 48 moves from autumn to winter, certain regions have experienced more dramatic seasonal changes while others have experienced a slow transition. The Pacific Northwest has seen cooler, wetter weather, while other areas, such as the South Central and Northeast, have had warmer-than-usual ...
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Monday Nov 25, 2024 |
How do you know when winter has started? Here in Portland, you know its winter when people celebrate every day without rain like it’s a national holiday. In the New England it’s when they switch from pants (because they‘re afraid of ticks) to short (to show they’re not ...
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Friday Nov 22, 2024 |
My son’s Halloween Trick or Treat haul last month was a lot like solar in CAISO this past year. He brought back such an enormously filled bag, that its consumption needed to be significantly curtailed. My wife, as is her early-November custom, hid the bag after letting him gorge ...
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Thursday Nov 21, 2024 |
The Pacific Northwest is certainly no stranger to rain, but the storms that raged in Western Washington earlier this week on Tuesday were unusually potent. The atmospheric river weather system that has been on the radar for the PNW and northern California arrived with a bang, transforming ...
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