Quote of the day: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Holy Shit! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson

Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Understanding PJM: Political Storms

We wrote to you regarding the world’s largest traded power market covering the world’s biggest data center cluster, Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland (PJM) capacity auction in mid-2025. Unsurprisingly, although sidelined by mega-headlines such as Venezuela, Iran, Greenland and Davos, there has been more controversy. And this massive ice storm is likely to further escalate the sense of crisis that is growing regarding PJM. Basically we forecast a PJM slow motion trainwreck, that will require crisis management. We predicted

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

The Ice Storm Cometh, the Power Goeth

My call since 2024 was for oil prices to hit a low in the $40s/bbl in February 2026. With Brent at $65/bbl with less than two weeks to go, it is time to admit defeat. Prefer to be bearish and wrong than bullish and wrong. With that in mind, time to call a barrel counter par excellence, and tomorrow we have Rory Johnson, one of the best barrel counters in the business, on Happy Hour,

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Sunday Buying SLB and Holding Liat

Hello All, Mid-January… these are the hard yards on Wall Street – no let up until mid-April. It was the New York winter that broke the Occupy Wall Street protestors in 2011, and they wimped out in November. We workers kept grinding. Wintry mix today in Brooklyn Heights, brisk weather is forecast for Tuesday: 14° low, or -6° to Europeans. MLK Day Federal Holiday tomorrow, which seemingly nobody in Houston follows, at least not in

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