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| Thursday Oct 5, 2017 | |
| California has been known for their large amount of solar capacity, but Texas has been building its solar arsenal. Over the course of the last 18 months, solar capacity in ERCOT has gone from 212 MW to 1000 MW with an increase of over 500 MW since the start of 2017 (see figure 1). This currently puts ERCOT in second place for utility scaled solar capacity amongst the ISOs. » read more | |
| Wednesday Oct 4, 2017 | |
| Coming out of the weekend, there was a force majeure notification at Topack/Needles heading into Southern California. As it turns out, there was an explosion at Newberry Springs (Line 235-2 - local news article from The Sun) reducing the Needles/Topock capacities to zero. Figure 1 | ... » read more | |
| Tuesday Oct 3, 2017 | |
| Over the apst two month there has been a large shift in the Northeast natural gas cash markets in relationship to the benchmark Henry Hub. At the beginning of the summer, most forecasts had the Northeast gas price relationships to the Henry Hub much stronger than where they ended up liquidating. A number of factors have played out in the market including ... » read more | |
| Monday Oct 2, 2017 | |
| As of yesterday, October 1st 2017, Portland General Electric (PGE) is officially apart of CAISO's Energy Imbalance Market (EIM). This entails many items, but the first one I took a look at was the transfer capacity between the CAISO and PGE's system as it will be another tentacle that will allow megawatts to move out of the CAISO land and up into the Pacific Northwest ... » read more | |
| Friday Sep 29, 2017 | |
| I learned a lot of really useful stuff in graduate school. I really did. One of my favorite classes was Advanced Micro-Economic Theory taught by Professor Lee Friedman. We covered a lot of ground in that class. There were a lot of graphs and formulas. Some of it was pretty dry stuff. One of the most memorable things that I learned in that class was a definition of an ... » read more | |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2017 | |
| With September coming to an end, we thought it would be good to take a look at what is in store for October when it comes to the Algonquin pipeline maintenance schedule. As you recall, last year saw a bit upgrade project take place over the summer months as they wanted to be ready for the Winter 2016-2017 season. The first thing ... » read more | |
| Wednesday Sep 27, 2017 | |
| The first day Autumn technically started on the 22nd but the optimist in me likes to believe that Summer lasts at least through the end of September. Looking at the forecasted CDD (Cooling Degree Days) it seems my optimistic view paid off as heat remains above normal through the end of the Month. Figure 1 |ConUS ... » read more | |
| Tuesday Sep 26, 2017 | |
| Post Hurricane Harvey, the South Central region surrounding the Haynesville production was a key component to the supply/demand balance being question. As we noted in one of our natural gas market flashes sent out to clients, the production output dipped down with both Louisiana and Texas both showing a similar trend. Once we got into the month of September, the ... » read more | |
| Monday Sep 25, 2017 | |
| It is that time of year again when the National Football League (NFL) and the NFL Ticket become my weather reporter across the country. Many of the teams/fans in the Northeast were quite warm as the fans were blowing cold air on them while they sat on the sidelines. In Tennessee, the Seattle team looked winded from the get go, but maybe that was just their ... » read more | |
| Friday Sep 22, 2017 | |
| Where does weather end and climate change begin? That is, when does weather have to be so extreme that it indicates an underlying shift in the climate versus the natural variation in day-to-day, week-to-week, and year-to-year weather? I think that greenhouse gas emissions from humans is raising the level of carbon in the atmosphere. I also think that the higher atmospheric ... » read more | |