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Renewable Natural Gas Recommended for Emissions Reduction
Retail energy providers should consider renewable natural gas (RNG) as a solution to help decarbonize the emissions of commercial and industrial accounts, a broker of environmental compliance products told MAGNIFYI recently. Many companies…
Gas Producers, Pipelines Build Generation Behind the Meter at Data Centers
Natural gas pipelines and producers are developing behind-the-meter power generation projects with data centers that could foreclose some opportunities in this growing nascent market to other participants. Asset-heavy companies in the…
Battle of the Balance Sheets: The New Reality of Competition in Texas Retail Energy
Six years ago, I built a simple report. The goal was straightforward: track annual residential sales of Retail Energy Providers in Texas and calculate market share to answer a basic question: Who’s winning? And who’s losing? Over time, as…
Flexible Capacity Could Flourish With Policy Changes, Paper Says
State regulators would unlock gigawatts of flexible capacity by reforming some retail market rules that create conditions for lower pricing and ultimately cut new transmission and generation expenditures, according to a recent paper by the…
Top Ten Lessons Learned at EMC25
I heard over and over from attendees this was one of the best conferences we’ve done. This conference’s theme was The Power Shift: Redefining Competitive Energy Markets — Insights, Tools, and Leadership, and the program delivered on…
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal of Former Ohio House Speaker’s HB1 Bribery Scheme
By not taking up the appeal of the House Speaker’s appeal, his federal racketeering conviction and 20-year prison sentence is upheld. The court’s decision was issued without comment. Note that the court also rejected the appeal of…
Proposed PJM Transmission Tariff Encounters Opposition
The proposed federal transmission tariff of the PJM Interconnection reregulates wholesale access in a way that was unanticipated when many new large loads were planned and is opposed by some market participants. The transmission rate case…
