Market Context: Why Timing Now Drives Value Snow once functioned like a slow-release battery for the grid, but record winter warmth and a March heat wave shifted runoff into the wrong months, turning hydropower from a summer workhorse into a winter sprinter just as heat waves raised peak demand.
Carlos, I’ve spent my career straddling the control room and the commission docket, so I see both the physics and the policy. Right now, PJM is in a moment where data center demand and aging thermal fleets are colliding, and record-high capacity prices landed even as the region missed its
Ava Baineson sits down with Christopher Hailstone, a seasoned utilities expert whose career spans grid reliability, renewable integration, and the delicate choreography of moving sensitive energy data through secure systems. Hailstone has been hands-on with EPRI’s push toward local AI—running
Pennsylvania’s grid now faces a paradox of urgency and fairness as projects queue for years while data center demand surges, and the Commonwealth tests whether speed can coexist with open access. Developers see an opening: the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued a March 28
Why This Market Move Matters Now Rate plans rarely mix a sizable price increase with a promise to pause, yet DTE’s proposed $474.3 million electric rate hike, paired with a conditional two-year filing freeze, forced Michigan’s power market to confront a simple tension: how to fund a faster
Adapting to the New Reality of Midcontinent Power Needs The silent hum of electrical substations across the American heartland is growing into a roar as the digital economy demands a scale of energy unseen since the height of the industrial revolution. The Midcontinent Independent System Operator,
