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merchant generation


2020: A Year of Reckoning for Competitive Generators

Over the past year, power generators that depend on wholesale electricity markets for the bulk of their revenues endured remarkable pressure stemming from the pandemic, changing company business priorities, and…


Market Conditions Doom Another Nuclear Plant, Palisades, to Closure in 2018

Entergy Corp. has decided to permanently close the Palisades nuclear power plant on October 1, 2018. The news comes as a bit of a surprise, because Entergy had a power…


Duke Energy Generation: Wholesale Retreat

Duke Energy, the largest electric utility in the U.S. in terms of market value, is transitioning its generating fleet away from volatile and sometimes unprofitable wholesale markets and toward the…