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Saturday Nov 16, 2019 |
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A battery can sell three types of products: resource adequacy (RA), ancillary services , and energy. RA revenue is a function of the capacity market rules (e.g., size of battery and duration), and is generally procured on a monthly or annual basis. As such, RA value is not directly impacted by short term energy and ancillary prices or dispatch. Ancillary services, especially regulating reserves, are currently profitable, but the market for them is very small compared to the size of the energy market. In the CAISO, for example, the current regulating reserve market is about 300 MW of “reg up” and 300 MW of “reg down.” Historically, the regulating reserve market was served by flexible hydro and natural gas.
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Saturday Oct 12, 2019 |
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This past January, ERCOT implemented the first part of scarcity price policy revisions from the Public Utility Commission of Texas. These changes, affecting the Operating Reserve Demand Curve adder (ORDC), were set to take place in two phases: at the beginning of 2019 and 2020. This past April, EGPS discussed the proposed first change and how it might affect ERCOT pricing. Now, at the end of the summer, it’s time to look ahead at the upcoming second change. This article presents an analysis where the frequency and level of ORDC adders is calculated using defined adjustments. We compute expected adjustments based on the known change to the ORDC adder coming March 2020 (Phase 2 adder) as well as some expected change to the net resource mix.....
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Friday Oct 4, 2019 |
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The ‘Sumas Story’ started years ago when cold winter days in the Pacific Northwest had to compete with Northeast winter demand as AECO was the marginal molecule. This created a lively market that saw both Sumas and AGT cash gas prices shoot through the moon. As the grid was going through its evolution of pipeline expansions (REX) and on-shore production, the leverage of AECO diminished to a point that Sumas went to the wayside while AGT was still privy to the winter price spikes. Almost a year ago to the day of writing this report, the Pacific Northwest got a jolt (no pun intended) as the 36 inch Enbridge pipeline near Shelley, BC exploded with a ball of fire that was seen for miles......
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Thursday May 16, 2019 |
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EnergyGPS slides from the "Third Annual Northwest Wholesale Power Markets: Transition in Progress" conference by Newsdata LLC and CJB Energy. We explore the power demand, supply, and price conditions in the Pacific Northwest and California markets.
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When it comes to Carbon Markets in the region, the Washington State had an initiative on the ballot a couple of years ago that had some traction but did not get over 50% allocated yes votes it needed to pass. Since that time, the groups that support a Carbon Market in the Pacific Northwest, specifically Washington, have put together another proposal that is known as Initiative 1631 and it is on the upcoming ballet on November 6th , 2018.
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Friday Apr 3, 2020 |
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For those of us fortunate enough to not be impacted health- or employment-wise by the COVID-19 crisis, it was a week to be very grateful for what we have.
To the people on the front line of this crisis, from heath care workers to the many workers providing essential service, EnergyGPS ...
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Thursday Apr 2, 2020 |
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During any election, the news stations use the words 'swing state' as the ballots are being counted and the individuals running for office are all on pins and needles. The reference is to any state that can go either way hence the political party member who wins the votes is one step closer ...
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Wednesday Apr 1, 2020 |
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What a start to a new month, ERCOT's wind is expected to average over 16.7 GWa across the 24 hour period on Wednesday, April 1st. If I would have written this type of information in the newsletter blog, say 10 years ago, you would have most likely attributed it to a funny April Fools ...
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Tuesday Mar 31, 2020 |
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Oil prices have been hit with a double edged sword in the last month. The failure of Russia and OPEC nations to come to a quota agreement has led to a glut of supply in the world market just as coronavirus effects sap the demand. Zerohedge posted a good article about how some of the oil basis ...
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Monday Mar 30, 2020 |
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The world has a lot going on right now as information overload is front and center when it comes to the Coronavirus and the inability for countries to get in front of it in a way that allows for people to go about their daily life. We have China that has begun to dig itself out of what would ...
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Friday Mar 27, 2020 |
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The good people over at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) have recently published a report on the state of batteries in US electricity markets. LBL has partnered with the Electric Power Research Institute and Clean Kilowatts to write “Motivations and options for deploying hybrid ...
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Thursday Mar 26, 2020 |
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Over the past few weeks the world has been turned upside down in a way that countries are in full lockdown mode, individuals are asked to cozy up in their small apartments/flats and every news station is finding it hard to stay on top of the information surrounding the coronavirus. During ...
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Wednesday Mar 25, 2020 |
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The Corona Virus (CV) and the related illness COVID-19 (C19) has unsettled and upended the world as we know it. People are socially distancing, businesses are closing, people are losing jobs, those with jobs are working from home, people are getting sick, and people are dying. This is like nothing ...
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2020 |
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The last couple of weeks have been a disaster for energy prices. The two edged sword of quarantine efforts as well as the break down of oil quota talks has slashed near term natural gas prices. But there is a silver lining to the recent price action. The futures prices beyond this immediate ...
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Monday Mar 23, 2020 |
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It is so easy to lose track of what day it is as they all get co-mingled into one lump sum now that working from home is being mandated by the stay-in-place orders sent down from either the state's governor or the city's mayor. No matter who it is issuing the mandate, our country is working ...
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