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Tuesday Aug 14, 2018 |
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This year, we are seeing many regions across the country have a change in dispatch strategy for coal fired power plants. Not only are we seeing total output drop due to retirements, the year on year change in the relationship between fuels generation has caused natural gas to move further into ...
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Monday Aug 13, 2018 |
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Over the past couple of weeks, the natural gas prompt month has moved up $0.15 or so to end the week just under $2.95. This leaves the speculative participants wondering if they should be selling since it the number mentioned is only $0.05 away from the top of the range ...
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Friday Aug 10, 2018 |
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In the last 18 months we’ve seen a proliferation of “one to multiple” renewable deals where one project has multiple off-take agreements for a single project. This is a great development. Large projects can presumably come in with a lower levelized cost of energy. Often times a ...
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Thursday Aug 9, 2018 |
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Last week we spoke about the carbon pricing that NYISO is considering implementing in order to reach renewable goals. This week we will move north to ISONE which has drastically different plans for the future. The smaller grid chooses to take what some might consider a more practical approach as it ...
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Wednesday Aug 8, 2018 |
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The past few weeks have been pretty exciting in the Western natural gas and power markets as we have seen SoCal Citygate index just under $40 the last week of July while August has shown us that Midc and Mead need the power when their respective loads hit a certain level. The Desert Southwest ...
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Tuesday Aug 7, 2018 |
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One of the pricing dynamics we have seen for most of the summer is that the cash markets, in many areas of the country are quick to move over the forward strip. In California for example, both SoCal and PG&E Citygate cash markets are trading over the whole winter strip. Based on the shape of ...
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Monday Aug 6, 2018 |
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If your focus in the Western power and natural gas markets, you have been privy to some major excitement over the past couple of years. Making sure we keep this short (as we know California has had a lot of things happen over the years, both by choice and just some bad luck), lets start in ...
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Friday Aug 3, 2018 |
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The proposed Wind Catcher facility, seen in Figure 1 below, consists of 2,000 MW of wind turbines planned for the Panhandle of Oklahoma coupled with the 350 mile Wind Catcher Connection transmission lines which will move power to Tulsa in eastern Oklahoma. The project is being developed ...
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Thursday Aug 2, 2018 |
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New York is considering implementing a carbon tax as soon as 2021. It will be the second state/ISO in the United States to add carbon pricing, the other being the California. This is a logical steps for the state's push towards its high renewable goals set forth over the past couple ...
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Wednesday Aug 1, 2018 |
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Over the past couple of months, we have discussed the ERCOT wind profile on an hourly/daily/monthly basis and its impact in the marketplace. Before we get into some of the details, it should be stated that the max generation (wind) output has increased from 15.9 GW to over 17.3 GW since ...
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