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Friday Nov 16, 2018 |
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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its emissions report in early November for Compliance Year 2017. The news on the carbon emissions front is mostly good, although a bit mixed. The electricity industry is crushing it in terms of emissions reductions with year-on-year reductions of ...
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Thursday Nov 15, 2018 |
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If you were up at 3:30 am PST yesterday and lived in the Pacific Northwest, a couple of items definitely woke you up. The first being the temperatures inside the house as the thermometer usually shows a number in the 68-69 degree level for this time of year. When I looked at it yesterday when ...
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2018 |
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When you talk to traders in the natural gas industry, they refer to the following year as the color red for some reason. For example, being in November and the current winter strip January 2019 is spoken in terms of what it is while January 2020 is considered the 'Red' January. Speaking ...
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Tuesday Nov 13, 2018 |
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The AECO cash market exemplifies how the market have changed over the years as many basis hubs have seen more volatility due to new production, pipeline maintenance and increased demand when it comes to power burns and industrial. For example, the Alberta gas market has seen negative settles ...
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Monday Nov 12, 2018 |
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As we head into the winter months, we always seem to get some sort of polar vortex in the Northeast, where Algonquin prices rip higher as the demand for natural gas tied to rescom takes precedent over the need for power burns on the pipeline. This type of situation usually forces the implied ...
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Friday Nov 9, 2018 |
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Figure 1 | If only I had been of a longer duration ...
Reserve margins in several regions of the U.S. are getting tighter. Consider some of the news:
ERCOT’s Reserve margin was revised downward this summer. ERCOT had record breaking peak loads in May and June and set a new ...
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Thursday Nov 8, 2018 |
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The power supply curves across the country all have some unique characteristics tied to the dispatch of units, especially within an ISO where economic bidding strategies come to the forefront of any day-ahead and/or real-time hourly auction results. There are some cases where the optimal ...
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Wednesday Nov 7, 2018 |
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With the Republicans maintaining the majority of the Senate and the Democrats taking over the House of Representatives, the next two years will be full of fireworks as the president will be in the crossfire of many political debates and war of words as he rounds out his first term. Moving ...
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Tuesday Nov 6, 2018 |
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A few years ago I had the privilege of coaching my sons second grade basketball team. They were all first year players just trying to learn basic fundamentals. We taught them footwork, layups and basic defense. But it is amazing how much they can learn from watching one another. One of the boys on ...
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Monday Nov 5, 2018 |
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Over the weekend, the weather forecast got a lot colder across the Midwest, Ohio Valley and the Northeast. In fact, some model runs have the frigid weather dropping down into the South Central and Southeast parts of the country. This type of weather pattern has ignited the front end of ...
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