Join Wood Mackenzie’s Power Trading Analytics team in this upcoming series of "Seasonal Spring Outlook Webinars", as they take a look at how US short term power markets have been performing and present their expectations for the 2025 season.
Topics for discussion include:
ERCOT: To sync or not to sync: Generation retirements and energizations in ERCOT
- Investigating scheduled generation retirements and energizations, to better understand if projected timelines match reality.
PJM: Digging ourselves out of a hole: PJM’s ‘shovel ready’ interconnection plan
- Evaluating PJM's ‘Reliability Resource Initiative’, with a deep dive into the benefits and challenges of the initiative.
MISO: Power struggles: A look at MISO’s reliability challenges ahead
- Analyzing grid reliability challenges posed by an evolving generation stack and growing demand, with a focus on the short-term risks and the long-term plans to address them.
SPP: Spring forward: A look at SPP's future transmission plans
- Reviewing SPP's latest quarterly project tracking report and highlighting new transmission, upgrades, and notable delays in SPP's Transmission Expansion Plan.
CAISO: Rise of hydro
- Delving into evolving grid conditions and reviewing major transmission updates.
NYISO: Zonal spread analysis
- Examining key zonal price spreads historically (such as Zone A to Zone G) to provide informed drivers and potential interzonal relationships.
ISONE: Anticipating changes to Day-ahead and Real-time prices under the DASI structure
- Reviewing ISO-NE's upcoming replacement of the forward reserves system by the new Day-Ahead Ancillary Services Initiative (DASI).