Tag Archives: PJM

The PJM capacity auction is always a big event.  One of the tricky things when analyzing the auction's potential impact on a company is figuring out which locational deliverability area (LDA) a plant is located.  I took on the challenge and created a new Tableau viz that shows the LDA for the powe

Exelon Corp announced this week that it will close the infamous Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant in 2019 unless it receives government assistance.  (See press release here.  Wall Street Journal article can be found here.)  We have seen this story in the past with other nuclear plants.�

It is cold in the Northeast this afternoon. (source :Intellicast) As you might expect, cold temperatures can have an impact on power prices.  You can definitely see this in New England this afternoon. (Source ISO New England) For those of you not used to the units, the $135/MWh show