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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Sunday Beam Me Up, Scottie… Scottie?

By Paul Sankey Published on July 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM

I sent you a slab of text yesterday, a Thematic, our favourite work, on US power markets, and specifically the upcoming PJM auction results. I have re-attached the note to this email so you can plunge into it, if you have not already. It’s linked at the end of this note and is entitled “Understanding PJM: The Auction” which results are due this week, Tuesday 22nd July. ~ Top of mind, very disappointing share price …

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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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