Take Steps This Summer to Mitigate Your 2027/2028 Capacity Costs The start of this summer’s capacity cost management period is less than one week away. For customers on generation contracts that pass through capacity charges, these charges are based on the customer’s metered demand during the five one-hour intervals when demand on PJM’s electric grid … Continued
Ohio Energy Leadership Summit to Take Place on June 16, 2026 in Cleveland The inaugural Ohio Energy Leadership Summit: The Definitive Commercial & Industrial Utility Rate and Energy Strategy Conference will take place on Tuesday, June 16 at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown (100 Lakeside Avenue East, Cleveland, Ohio 44114). The conference is scheduled to kick … Continued
Ohio Senate Bill 103 Takes Effect On March 20, 2026, Ohio Senate Bill 103 (SB 103) went into effect after being signed into law by Governor Mike DeWine on December 19, 2025. SB 103 introduces structural changes to natural gas ratemaking, with a focus on large-load customer treatment, cost recovery mechanisms, and regulatory timelines. The … Continued
PJM Pursuing Extension of Existing Capacity Price Cap Through 2029/2030 Delivery Year In a February 12 letter to stakeholders, the PJM Board of Managers (“PJM Board”) announced its intent to pursue an extension of the existing capacity price collar that applies to the 2026/2027 and 2027/2028 delivery years (DYs) for the next two capacity auctions. … Continued
Extreme Cold Results in Elevated Spot Prices and Extended Risk for AEP Zone 1CP Beginning on January 24, a disrupted polar vortex sent temperatures across the central and eastern United States into a deep freeze. These prolonged subzero temperatures have resulted in elevated real-time and day-ahead hourly spot electric prices for customers throughout the PJM … Continued
PJM Releases 2027/2028 Delivery Year BRA Results On December 17, 2025, PJM Interconnection announced the results of its Planning Year 2027/2028 Base Residual Auction (BRA). The auction procured 134,478.1 megawatts (MW) of unforced capacity from generation resources and demand response across the Regional Transmission Organization (RTO). The auction cleared at $333.44 per MW-day for the … Continued
Take Steps This Winter to Mitigate Your Transmission Costs Eligible electric customers in the service territories of American Electric Power (AEP) Ohio, FirstEnergy (FE), and AES Ohio can reduce their transmission costs by lowering demand on specific days when load peaks across a transmission zone. These peak hours are known as Transmission Coincident Peaks (Transmission … Continued
FirstEnergy’s Rider NMB Rates Updated on October 1, 2025 FirstEnergy (FE) implemented a semi-annual update to its Non-Market-Based Services Rider (Rider NMB) rates on October 1, 2025, for residential and nonresidential customers served by its three Ohio operating companies: Ohio Edison (OE), the Illuminating Company (CEI), and Toledo Edison (TE). Rider NMB recovers FE’s non-market-based … Continued
Peak Loads for Summer 2025 As we approach September 30 – the end of the summer coincident peak (CP) management season – weather and load forecasts indicate that the five coincident peaks for capacity and transmission in the ATSI Zone have likely been set. PJM’s capacity peaks reached record levels this summer. The preliminary fifth-highest … Continued
Peak Loads for Summer 2025 Brakey Energy provides email and text alerts in advance of potential Capacity and Transmission Coincident Peaks (CPs) to those clients that elect to receive them. As of August 25, 2025, Brakey Energy has issued 14 Capacity CP alerts, 15 FE (ATSI Zone) Transmission CP alerts, and 4 AEP Ohio CP … Continued