On the Brink of Blackouts, Texas Makes Case for New Plants

Aug 15, 2019 | News

by Chris Martin and Naureen S Malik, August 14, 2019 It may be time to start building power plants in Texas again. The state’s generators made a killing this week as unrelenting heat sent electricity prices skyrocketing to unprecedented levels, briefly blowing past a...

ERCOT’s extreme prices unlikely to result in new thermal generation: experts

Aug 15, 2019 | News

by Mark Watson, August 14, 2019 Houston — The Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ systemwide real-time wholesale power prices on Tuesday spent more than four hours above $1,000/MWh and 90 minutes around $9,000/MWh, but industry observers Wednesday said they...

OTC GLOBAL HOLDINGS’ CHOICE! POWER ADDS ENERGY VETERAN THOMAS BLAKESLEE

May 21, 2019 | News

NEW YORK (May 21, 2019) – Choice! Power, a subsidiary of leading independent interdealer broker in over-the-counter commodities OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH), today announced the addition of Thomas Blakeslee. The 25-year energy veteran joins OTCGH’s power and gas...

Brexit Weighs on Oil and Gas Firms

Apr 1, 2019 | News

The eyes of the world are on the UK Parliament, where members of the House of Commons on Friday again defeated a plan outlining terms for the UK to withdraw from the European Union (EU). Nearly 52 percent of the UK electorate participating in the June 23, 2016,...