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Friday May 26, 2023 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Tuesday May 23, 2023 |
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The prompt month felt downward pressure coming out of the weekend as the weather forecast was calling for modest temperatures leading into the long Memorial Day weekend. Such prompted the cash markets across the East and South Central to pull back on its settles all the while the power levels ...
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Monday May 22, 2023 |
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Memorial Day is a time of year where transition starts to occur with the first being that the school year is almost complete, and the young adults look forward to their summer activities outside the classroom. We also see this time as putting the first two months of Q2 behind us and looking ...
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Friday May 19, 2023 |
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ERCOT and SPP are considered the front runners when it comes to their respective wind capacity installation over the past decade or so. If you look at the current forecast for wind generation, you will do a double take most likely as the numbers are displaying single digit averages across ...
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Thursday May 18, 2023 |
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The growth of renewables, such as wind and solar, is meant to solve the problems created by burning fossil fuels. However, implementing these technologies comes with its own set of challenges to power grids across the country. ERCOT and PJM are two ISOs that have seen growth in both solar and wind ...
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Wednesday May 17, 2023 |
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The West is enjoying high temperatures this week with highs up to 100 degrees F in Phoenix on Monday, May 15th. It’s just the beginning of a heat wave expected to last over the next two weeks. The figure below shows differences from normal cooling degree days this time of year based on a ...
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Monday May 15, 2023 |
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Warm weather abounds across the entire, which equates to strong power demand and the acceleration of the higher elevation snowpack in both the Pacific Northwest and California. The former has limited quantity per se in the Upper Columbia basin (see recent EnergyGPS Pacific Northwest Hydro ...
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Friday May 12, 2023 |
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Our blog yesterday focused on an element of our latest Newsletter Renewable Monthly report: specifically, it examined the expansion of solar capacity in ERCOT going back to 2013, and compared the average monthly solar profile so far this year to the profiles during the past two years. The increase ...
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