Publications

MRP Review Week 11: A Closer Look at Two-Settlement and Comparing Prices in the Renewed Versus Legacy Market

Power Advisory undertook an analysis to better understand the implications of the new two-settlement system for merchant wind facilities in Ontario.

Ontario’s Integrated Energy Plan: Towards a New Energy and Economic Planning Paradigm

On June 12, 2025 the Government of Ontario published Energy for Generations. The document represents the province’s first steps in initiating a regular five-year cycle of developing comprehensive, co-ordinated, economy-wide integrated energy plans (IEP) that cover electricity, natural gas, hydrogen, biofuels, and emerging fuels.

MRP Week 10 Review: More West Zone Negative Congestion, OZP breaks $200/MWh Three Times

The most notable change in the renewed market last week occurred in the West zone. Last week, the Northwest, Northeast, and West zones experienced the most congestion during the day-ahead timeframe.

MRP Week 9 Review: Data Issues, Blocked Dispatch Since MRP launch and West Zone Negative Congestion

MRP Week 8 Review: Peak Demand, Forecast Errors and Price Spikes

The summer peak demand season has arrived – and peak prices along with it. There were 20 real-time Ontario Zonal Price (OZP) spikes greater than $200/MWh, with the highest price hitting $1,229.23/MWh.

ISO-NE Summary

On June 24th, ISO-New England (ISO-NE) hit a peak load of 26,024 MW at 7pm, the highest load experienced since 2013. With load marginally higher than forecast and a spike in outages (primarily natural gas units), real-time locational marginal prices (LMPs) were over $1,000/MWh, over twice the day-ahead market (DAM) price.

MRP Week 7 Review: West Zone Congestion Goes Negative

The most notable change in the renewed market last week occurred in the West zone. In contrast to most weeks since the renewed market was launched, the West zone experienced high levels of negative congestion in the day-ahead market – even greater than in other typically congested zones such as the Northwest and Northeast.

Pennsylvania Net Metering Update – Utilities Angle for Hommrich Workaround

Net metering in Pennsylvania continues to be a trending topic with regulatory and legislative movement that could drastically change the current compensation for excess generation.

MRP Week 6 Review: DAM OR Price Spike and Ongoing Congestion in the Northwest and Northeast

MRP Week 5 Review: Extreme Negative Price in RT and Congestion in Niagara Zone

Power Advisory is moving forward with its weekly renewed market reviews based on feedback from a number of clients. The weekly timeframe has slightly adjusted and is now from Saturday to Sunday. This report adds a few days to cover a few days included in the transition from the previous weekly schedule to the new format (note that the old weekly schedule was based on MRP launching on a Thursday and went from Thursday to Wednesday).