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Thursday May 13, 2021 |
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Many of you probably already receive Gary Ackerman’s newsletter, the Friday Burrito, if your employer is a member of the Western Power Trading Forum (WPTF). For those of you who don’t, it is a thorough and grounded but often humorous look at the weekly hot topics in the Western US ...
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Wednesday May 12, 2021 |
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The AESO market has featured some unprecedented price strength and volatility this spring, largely due to an enormous amount of gas-fired generation capacity on outage. However, those outages are winding down, which should take some of the steam out of the Alberta Power Pool pricing until ...
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Tuesday May 11, 2021 |
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It has been one year since the pandemic hit. Lives across the world have been in an arrested state as school closures, work from home orders and travel restrictions hit our continent. By and large these measures are lifted across the country but has daily behavior and the economy recovered? At ...
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Monday May 10, 2021 |
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Depending on your age, there are several places that the saying 'Game On, Game Off' come into play. In my case, it goes all the way back to the Wayne' World where an intense version of one-on-one street hockey took place only to be disrupted by honking cars. Wayne and Garth would ultimately ...
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Friday May 7, 2021 |
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ERCOT forward pricing has always been a 'tale of two curves'. As anyone who tracks the ERCOT market knows, forward prices in the prompt year or two are based on expectations of marginal cost combined and scarcity. After the first couple of years, the forward curve rapidly declines, often reaching ...
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Thursday May 6, 2021 |
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Since the start of the year, the market conditions in California have been such that the Diablo Canyon Unit 2 facility was sitting on the sidelines most of Q1 and then the refueling period occurred as we rolled into Q2-2021 as well as the fact that the lack of hydro generation was being formed by ...
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Wednesday May 5, 2021 |
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Mexico is hot again, both literally and figuratively. Daily exports to Mexico have been repeatedly topping 6 Bcfd, lifting month-to-date levels about 0.9 Bcfd above last year, including many recent days of new record highs. With another early-season heat wave currently hitting the ...
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Tuesday May 4, 2021 |
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It was just over a year ago when the world was hit with a pandemic which caused the shut down of society. You could no longer go to a restaurant or the movies or even to work. The economy ground to a standstill as most were forced to survive at home. This drop in economic activity was most evident ...
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Monday May 3, 2021 |
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A few weeks ago, the EnergyGPS webinar titled 'The Magical Mid-c' covered some of the key components that make the Pacific Northwest a one of a kind market with its own contributing components. The one key component that sticks out is the hydro system as Mother Nature reshuffles her cards ...
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Friday Apr 30, 2021 |
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A key measure in an energy analyst’s toolbox for thinking about price and renewable curtailments is net load. Net load is a measure designed to capture the leftover demand needing to be satisfied after deducting the output from renewable resources such as wind, solar and soon to be ...
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