Clarity Grid Blog
Insights and analysis of the electric grid, wholesale prices, and the electricity markets.
Top 20 – 2021 Battery Locations in ERCOT
We took another look at the most profitable locations for a one-hour battery over the past year (excluding the craziness going on in February!). One region we did not expect dominated the top 20 locations. Register for the Clarity Grid mailing list below to get the full report and any future reports, blogs and news from Clarity Grid. Register for the Clarity Grid...
First Half of 2021 Nodal Updates
First Half of 2021 Nodal Updates For years economists and other market researchers, suspicious of official government statistics, have watched Chinese electric consumption figures to more accurately gauge economic growth. The thinking being that such figures as power consumption by industry sector or city was a more reliable indicator of what was happening in the “real...
Clarity Grid releases its Nodal Library
Clarity Grid Solutions maintains a library of over 8,500 Tariffs from over 1,500 individual Distribution Utilities serving the lower 48 US States. Since distribution territory is typically defined by zip code these tariff sets are accessible on Clarity GIS Bing Maps GIS according to this mapping. However, we have also made this library available through a Tariff Library...
Tackling YOUR energy Bill….what YOU can do about it
Utility companies all over the United States have been utilizing energy tariffs to conduct business. But what are they? Energy tariffs are how energy providers charge you for your gas and electricity use. They generate your bill according to how much energy you use, and make their money once the bill is paid. Many energy providers can raise prices whenever they want, so...
Texas Power Prices: How bad was it?
With the press reporting customers in Texas reeling from power bills, in some cases over $10,000, how bad did it get for the average customer in ERCOT on wholesale billing? How bad would it have been for customers in Texas outside of ERCOT had they contracted for power off wholesale prices? While SPP and MISO serve parts of Texas their pricing remains regulated...
Nodal Network Updates
Clarity maintains and updates a complete set of pricing for over 70,000 individual locational prices in the US. This is commonly referred to as “nodal prices” in the electric industry jargon. Nodal pricing typically comes in two varieties: “Load” and “Generation”. In simplistic terms “Load” pricing occurs at a substation or “bus” and “Generation” pricing occurs at the...
Press Release – Clarity Grid Solutions Enhances its Data-as-a-Service Offering with New Pricing Details for Energy on the U.S. Power Grid
Clarity Grid updates the nation’s wholesale electricity prices every five minutes. Clarity Grid displays both wholesale and retail energy pricing data for the entire U.S. power grid, all on one platform. Clarity Grid breaks down customer energy bills for any zip code and any retail electric tariff in the U.S., unlocking potentially billions of dollars in energy cost...
Clarity Grid Solutions ERCOT 2 Hour Battery Study
Due to the steady decline in battery storage costs and increasing integration into renewable energy systems, interest in prime locations has grown exponentially. Prior to undertaking the cost of interconnection, developers must first identify the most attractive locations as defined by; hourly energy prices, substation capacity available, and or incremental planned load...
Wholesale Power Prices Slide 10-20%
As analyst probe usage statistics to determine the effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on electricity demand, the longer-term trends of declining power bills for residential and commercial customers remain intact. We synthesized 12 months of bills for select cities in deregulated markets from September 2019 through April 2020 and In all samples prices ranged from almost...
Real Time Heat Map
Kevin P Hannon March 11, 2020 Each of the 7 US Independent System Operators (ISOs) establish daily or hourly pricing for the markets they serve by balancing supply and demand at over 60,000 pricing points across the US. This process, called Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED), begins at the lowest physical levels of the electric grid where substations for...