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Friday Oct 22, 2021 |
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Earlier this week, we wrote about the uptick in CAISO curtailments, particularly for solar. For most of 2021, curtailments have been in line with or even somewhat below curtailments for 2020, and until recently the total volume of curtailments was comfortably below the total volume this time last ...
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Thursday Oct 21, 2021 |
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Any subscribers to our Platinum Renewables package who have been keeping and eye on the CAISO Daily Battery Dashboard may have noticed something strange lately. On that dashboard, we report the revenue opportunity that would be available to a 4-hour battery across several different ...
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Wednesday Oct 20, 2021 |
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Here at EGPS, we keep a hawk’s eye on the Alberta power market because – even though it is shoulder season – AESO prices still exhibit wild volatility with only moment’s notice. This October has been no exception. On several occasions this month-to-date, hourly ...
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Tuesday Oct 19, 2021 |
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It has been the story since early spring that the North American natural gas market has been in the biggest bull market seen in the past ten years. Continuous contract prices ran up from $2.46 to $6.31 in just six months. But a good portion of the bullish perception was based on the ...
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Monday Oct 18, 2021 |
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Last week’s special article, titled ‘CAISO Curtailment Components’, took a deep-dive into the CAISO renewable curtailments as the past couple of weeks have presented scenarios where the system operators need to shed localized generation as certain nomogram constraints are in play ...
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Friday Oct 15, 2021 |
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In CAISO, what was already a meager hydro output during the summer has scaled back even further over the first half of October. Flat Hydro generation has averaged 1.3 GW over the past two weeks, down from 1.7 GW over the month of September. Interestingly, almost all of the reduced ...
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Thursday Oct 14, 2021 |
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It is hard to imagine the life that we once led just over two years ago. The fall season was filled with consumption tied to Halloween as children and adults alike tried to figure out what costume they were going to be wearing to the party or out and about as they obtained handfuls of ...
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Wednesday Oct 13, 2021 |
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Sumas cash prices are on the march to reclaim its spot as the top priced western gas hub. While this is typical for this time of year, a confluence of unique factors threaten to make this year’s run more outstanding than years past.
Sumas spot cash gas prices typically spend the summers ...
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Tuesday Oct 12, 2021 |
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One of the pitfalls of forecasting natural gas supply and demand balances is assuming weather will be normal. It is a luxury that the forecaster gets to look out on a forward natural gas curve and assume a regressed demand level to the historical daily average degree day. Even if there is a bias ...
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Monday Oct 11, 2021 |
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Everyone is familiar with the acronym “www” as it stands for the worldwide web and infamous with every url that has been created over the past three decades as the internet is alive and well. This past weekend, I had the honor of driving from Portland, OR to Walla Walla, where the ...
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