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| Wednesday Feb 7, 2018 | |
| The volatility in the stock market has been the major headline over the last couple of days, but let's not forget about the energy markets. While its no Bitcoin, we have seen massive gains and a subsequent fall in the Henry Hub March contract over the last 30 days. As cold weather pummeled the United States to start 2018, the NG market caught fire as supply ... » read more | |
| Tuesday Feb 6, 2018 | |
| Two weeks ago TransCanada hosted a conference call to go over the 2018 NGTL Operations Plan. The details of the presentation covered the new expansion projects underway on in the Alberta province. Besides increased oil sands delivery capacity and an ongoing effort to bring additional production to market, the Nova operations team confirmed that the completion of the ... » read more | |
| Monday Feb 5, 2018 | |
| We are approaching the time of the year, Q2, when everyone starts to talk about California's solar capacity, rooftop included, and Pacific Northwest hydro generation. Last year California not only had massive solar generation, but they also had their biggest water year in history. Up here in the PNW we had a top ten hydro year. There was plenty of renewable ... » read more | |
| Friday Feb 2, 2018 | |
| This week I had the opportunity to spend a day out of the office with a group of renewable industry professionals with diverse backgrounds discussing the current state of affairs in the industry and thinking about what the future might bring. I heard a lot of insightful comments. I also heard a diverse range of views on the future of the industry and the grid. A number of ... » read more | |
| Thursday Feb 1, 2018 | |
| The nuclear fleet has been pretty healthy year-to-date, and as a result has aided in making sure there has been enough non-gas generation online to meet the overall increased demand during the month of January (it has been quite cold this month). Over the course of the next couple of months we will see planned and unplanned outages make their way to the market. Once we ... » read more | |
| Wednesday Jan 31, 2018 | |
| Northeast temperatures have proven volatile through January as the new year started with a historic cold snap and the “Bomb Cyclone” weather event. This last week has been significantly more mild as slightly below normal temperatures have given way to a couple warm spells. Figure 1 | Jan 23rd – Jan 30th ... » read more | |
| Tuesday Jan 30, 2018 | |
| Yesterday, the February NYMEX natural gas contract settled at the highest levels of the month, coming off the board at $3.63. That is 46 cents higher than the March contract value of $3.17 and reflects a growing concern in the market that the level of natural gas storage supply in the Gulf is low enough to cause reliability issues. Two cold events over the past thirty ... » read more | |
| Monday Jan 29, 2018 | |
| Carbon emission reduction bills are currently being heavily discussed in both Washington and Oregon. While they have come up in the past, they have never made it to fruition. This time it feels like they will indeed go through, though the timing of such I am uncertain. Being a longtime utility employee with a pretty strong background in fundamentals, there ... » read more | |
| Friday Jan 26, 2018 | |
| Over the last few years EnergyGPS has done a number of battery analysis projects. For the most part, these projects entail figuring out how to dispatch a battery into a set of energy and ancillary service prices, while honoring project operating parameters – most notably state of charge, or stated another way, make sure that the battery doesn’t run out of juice ... » read more | |
| Thursday Jan 25, 2018 | |
| As we ended 2017 and began 2018, Mother Nature has reminded many what a cold winter feels like as every major area east of the Rockies, as well as down south into Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have been hit with below normal temperatures. These types of cold fronts not only have an impact on more rescom demand but they also cause disruptions in natural gas ... » read more | |