Afternoon PJM: Mr Jones, Napoleon, and Snowball

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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Thematic “Understanding PJM: The Auction”

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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Sunday Trump Hare and Tortoise MISO

By Paul Sankey Published on January 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM

Welcome to a historic week ahead, Day 1 Trump II… INCOMING SLB opens year-end 2024 oil earnings season with a winner – since the start of 2025 we like the oils. Call us twitchy bulls. The word China scares us, but we are looking for China demand upside starting with winter and scrambling for non-sanctioned oil. Our feeble bull case: Asian LNG is now more expensive than diesel in China, which should reverse marginal demand …

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