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Changing Energy Dynamics Point to an Immediate Long-Term Buying Opportunity

03.03.25

By Brendan Boyle, Director, Market Intelligence, Transparent Energy, March 2025 As we noted in our most recent market report, the natural gas market is experiencing a fundamental shift. Prompt month...

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What Power-Industry M&A Means for Fortune 500 Energy Buyers – And How To Win Moving Forward

02.11.25

By Paul Shagawat, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Transparent Energy As most of you already know, on January 10th, Constellation announced it will acquire Calpine, creating the largest power-generation company in...

Energy Markets

A Tale of Two Auctions: PJM, Capacity Prices, and You

10.23.24

By Paul Shagawat, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Transparent Energy By now you know about the results of PJM’s July 20, 2024 annual Base Residual Auction for the 2025-26 delivery year....

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Energy Budgeting is More Difficult (and Critical) Than Ever – Transparent Energy Can Help

09.19.24

By Brendan Boyle, Director, Market Intelligence, Transparent Energy, September 2024 With Labor Day in the rearview mirror, businesses are focused on finishing the year strong  while planning for both next...

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Not That AI and Energy Article: Getting Real About the Impact of Increased Electricity Demand on your Budget

06.12.24

By Paul Shagawat, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Transparent Energy Over the last couple of months, there has been an onslaught of media coverage across outlets, from CNBC to the Wall...

Energy Markets

It’s Time to Turn the Page on Sole Sourcing Energy

04.16.24

When Large Energy Buyers Get ‘Joined at the Hip’ with a Single Energy Supplier, Savings Opportunities Tend to Dissipate Friends Don’t Let Friends Sole Source Energy Over our 15 years...

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The Power of Dollar-Cost Averaging: Energy as a Managed Service

08.23.23

By Paul Shagawat, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Transparent Energy Customers of Transparent Energy and our regular readers have heard us – and yes, often me, with the loudest voice – sing the...

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“Rigged” Against You: Why Falling Rig Counts Are a Strong Energy “Buy” Signal for Your Business

05.23.23

In its Natural Gas Weekly Update for May 17, 2023, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) noted that earlier this month, “the natural gas rig count decreased by 16 to 141 rigs, the largest...

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Buy! Buy! Buy! (Summer is Coming, and so are Higher Energy Prices)

04.28.23

In the blink of an eye, summer will be here. And, if the Energy Information Administration is right, so will higher energy prices. It is predicting a Q3 natural-gas price increase that...

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Consider Buying Now: You Won’t Get Hurt Falling out the Basement Window!

03.13.23

Recent Wall Street Journal headlines (and subheads) capture a lot of the drama playing out in today’s energy markets and reveal much about what large energy users need to consider as they...

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Scared by Today’s Energy Prices? Know Your Options!

09.01.22

A recent article in Natural Gas Intelligence, a daily publication tracking natural-gas prices, began: “A confluence of entrenched domestic demand, mounting calls for U.S. exports of LNG and modest production growth – all...

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TOTALLY AVOIDABLE: Never Let Energy “Sticker Shock” Happen Again

06.23.22

If your energy contract ends in the next 18 months, you should be in emergency mode to manage away from risk and start budgeting for potentially large energy-price increases. And...