Wholesale Power Prices Slide 10-20%

As analyst probe usage statistics to determine the effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on electricity demand, the longer-term trends of declining power bills for residential and commercial customers remain intact. We synthesized 12 months of bills for select cities in...

Real Time Heat Map

Kevin P Hannon March 11, 2020 Each of the 7 US Independent System Operators (ISOs) establish daily or hourly pricing for the markets they serve by balancing supply and demand at over 60,000 pricing points across the US.  This process, called Security Constrained...

Electricity Tariffs

Deregulation of electricity markets is determined at the State level in the US. Currently 15 states (30%) provide for at least some, or all, customer classes to purchase power on a deregulated basis. However, because this group includes the relatively populous states...

The Challenges of Index Pricing

Wholesale prices as reported by the 7 US ISOs (Independent System Operators) come in two flavors: Next-Day, in which power is priced for delivery for the following day with each of the 24-hourly prices set independently. Real-Time, in which the price for power is...