By Paul Sankey
Published on January 24, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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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By Paul Sankey
Published on July 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What with busy results season in mid-summer, ie now, we are suspending Happy Hour for the next two weeks. It is just a little tough on the speaker to compete with results and summer, not fair to offer a graveyard slot. We also encourage you to get out and get tan once you get through results, not hunch over another Zoom call. So, summer recess on Happy Hour. For non-US readers, just to mention that …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on July 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
On Tuesday of this week (July 22nd 2025), the highly anticipated results of the capacity auction for the largest regulated publicly traded electricity market in the world, the PJM (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland) power system will be announced. PJM serves 65 million people with approximately 185 GW of installed capacity and a peak demand of around 153 GW, but more crucially, is the largest data center market in the world. “Think Pentagon” as we say …
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