The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is the federal program that requires a minimum volume of renewable fuel to be blended into the U.S. transportation fuel…
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The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is where companies, governments, and individuals buy and retire carbon credits by choice rather than by regulation. It sits alongside…
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Scope 2 emissions are the indirect greenhouse gas emissions tied to the electricity, steam, heating, or cooling a company purchases. The company did not burn…
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Net zero means balancing the greenhouse gases a company or country emits with an equivalent amount removed from the atmosphere. The concept sits at the…
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If you work in power project development, asset management, or energy trading, you will encounter the term Locational Marginal Pricing (almost always abbreviated to LMP)…
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Electricity is traded like a commodity, yet it behaves unlike any other. It cannot be stored at scale, must be balanced instantaneously across the grid,…
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PJM Interconnection is the largest wholesale electricity market in the United States and one of the largest in the world. It coordinates the movement of…
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ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, operates the most volatile wholesale power market in the United States. No other ISO combines a largely isolated…
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The shape CAISO warned about in 2013 is no longer a warning; it's the market's operating system. The Duck Has a Day-Ahead Market Now On…
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Data Centers and the Power Problem The bottleneck in data center development has changed. When the AI boom started, we naively assumed it would be…
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The West Has a Day-Ahead Market On May 1, 2026, CAISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM) went live, the first centralized day-ahead clearing mechanism for the…
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FERC's June Deadline & End of the Large-Load Grey Zone For the last year and a half, the economics of siting a gigawatt of data…
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