Status Check

As Summer weather returns to CAISO, Abby and Tim break down risks on the West Coast, the impact of Pickering’s long-term outage, more heat in PJM, the impact of Palo Verde’s outage and off-peak load in the West, and the risk of record-breaking wind generation in New England.  

Abby and Tim take a look at the state of the markets as we enter October. In this episode, we're taking a look at increasing nuclear outages, the impact of cloud cover in shoulder season, GHG volatility in CAISO, PGE joining EDAM, and the return of heat and strong N-S congestion in PJM and MISO.

Abby and Tim break down conditions in the West ahead of PGE entering EDAM, Federal court cases affecting New England’s supply, rare September EEA alerts in PJM, nuke outages in SPP and MISO, and what an early fall Nor’easter can teach us ahead of winter. 

Abby and Tim take a look at "second summer" in the west, ISO-NE’s new wind record, increasing generation outages across the markets, and how new load can complicate traditional shoulder season trends.

With summer in the rearview mirror, Abby and Tim break down a volatile last week of August in PJM, peak load in CAISO, the start of the nuclear refueling season in the East, and what forecasted wind records in New England can tell us about offshore wind project statuses.

Abby and Tim break down a volatile, cloudy week in CAISO, increased nuclear volatility in the East, and the potentially record-breaking late-summer heat wave in PJM, including the risk of more storm-driven congestion.

Fresh off his trip to Canada, Tim and Abby break down another hot week in ERCOT and continued challenges in MISO North. Apart from heat in the Central US, Abby touched on plans for SPP West ahead of September strength, its many seams, and Western Market expansion, while Tim dug into more developments in Eastern Canadian power grids and how that can impact the Northeast, outages to the NECEC, and how the politics of trade and data centers are heating up ahead of the midterm elections. 

A special guest has arrived on the podcast: an early employee at GridStatus, Ryan Kladar. As a software and data engineer, we get a special look at power data, what it's like to keep the site running, and his takes on hot-button grid topics. Don't miss this inside look into the Engine Room.

This week, Abby and Tim break down numerous load misses on the East Coast and how that translated into strong congestion and pricing, cloud coverage in CAISO, wildfire trends, and another week of strong ERCOT load forecasts.

August has arrived, and Abby and Tim break down how markets from East to West finished the month of July, more heat and humidity risks in PJM and NYISO, wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, and CAISO conditions as it nears its peak season.