October 5, 2024

Commentary

Soapbox: An Efficient ‘Energy Markets Cascade’
Energy Innovation's Eric Gimon argues for connecting long-term investments to the running of wholesale electricity spot markets in making climate policy.
NYISO, using U.S. EIA data
Soapbox: It’s Time for Transparency in the Grid
Mike Jacobs, senior energy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, argues for more transparency in RTOs' and ISOs' GHG emissions.
Counterflow: No Carb California
Columnist Steve Huntoon argues that California's ambitious renewable energy and storage targets would actually make the state more vulnerable to blackouts.
Soapbox: The Potential New Normal for Load Profiles
Patrick McGarry discusses how COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders have provided insight into a potentially permanent change in electricity demand.
Counterflow: Thank Our Heroes and Save Our Customers
Columnist Steve Huntoon has a brief but important message: thank your utility workers and protect your customers by wearing a mask.
Stakeholder Soapbox: ‘In These Uncertain Times…’
Vince Duane examines how the COVID-19 pandemic is shifting load curves in ways that decades of price incentives and regulatory programs have failed to do.
LS Power
Soapbox: IPPs Band Together on COVID-19 Response
Marji Philips, LS Power’s vice president of wholesale market policy, says the COVID-19 crisis has her company and its competitors working together.
Soapbox: Consumers Win in Competitive Markets
LS Power argues that FERC's recent order on PJM's capacity market is not an attack on renewables and doesn't unfairly advantages fossil fuels like coal.
Counterflow: When All Else Fails, Read the Order
In his latest column, Steve Huntoon argues that FERC's ruling on PJM's MOPR will benefit renewables and not result in higher capacity market prices.
Counterflow: Oy Vey
Despite running more than 1,000,000 more scenarios, PJM has not found a problem with fuel security, argues columnist Steve Huntoon.

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