FREEDOM ENERGY NEWSLETTER | September 2025 Maine Advances Clean Energy with New Legislation Maine has passed landmark clean energy legislation (LD 1868) setting new renewable and clean resource targets through 2040, creating a new Class III “clean resource” category and offering exemptions for contracts executed before September 30, 2025. Freedom Energy can [...]
FREEDOM ENERGY NEWSLETTER | September 2025 PJM Interconnection's 2026/2027 Base Residual Auction Results Announced PJM Interconnection’s 2026/2027 Base Residual Auction (BRA) cleared at $329.17/MW-UCAP under new price caps and floors, reflecting strong demand growth and ongoing supply constraints. With capacity prices up 22% from the previous year and the next BRA scheduled [...]
NORTHEAST MARKET UPDATE | MARCH 2025 Northeast Gas Market Capacity Release Program The Northeast gas market continues to face capacity constraints driven by limited infrastructure and growing demand, especially during peak winter months. This update highlights how utilities manage capacity assets and the key factors impacting costs for suppliers and customers [...]
FREEDOM ENERGY NEWSLETTER | March 2025 Northeast Gas Market Capacity Release Program: Key Updates and 2024 Impact The Northeast natural gas market faces significant challenges due to increasing capacity costs and infrastructure constraints. This article provides an overview of how these factors impact utility rates, supplier pricing, and ultimately, customer energy costs. [...]
Dan Cwalinski Director of Contracts and Pricing Freedom Energy PJM has continued to experience delays in holding the Base Residual Auctions (BRA) for the Reliability Pricing Model (RPM) Capacity Market. These auctions are relied upon for grid reliability by sending appropriate price signals to the market and incentivizing new generation to be [...]
Dan Cwalinski Director of Contracts and Pricing Freedom Energy ISO-NE’s Internal Market Monitor (IMM) released their quarterly markets report on January 31, 2023, assessing the state of competition in wholesale energy markets operated by ISO-NE (Independent System Operator New England). This most recent report covered the fall 2022 quarter, running from September [...]
Dan Cwalinski Director of Contracts and Pricing A commodity buying strategy should always have a focus on the long-term and help mitigate risk and provide savings under varying market conditions. The strategy will change as the markets and contract timing do, but a long-term approach should always win out over time. Even if a short-term [...]
By Dan Cwalinski, Director of Contracts and Pricing Following a two-year delay, PJM Interconnection held the 2022/2023 Base Residual Auction (BRA) from May 19, 2021 through May 25, 2021 and published the results on June 2, 2021. The 2022/2023 BRA is the third auction where PJM has procured 100% Capacity Performance Resources, which, according to PJM, [...]
By Dan Cwalinski, Director of Contracts and Pricing Whereas 2020 saw significant demand destruction and reduction in commodity pricing across the country, the story has been quite different in 2021. Since the start of 2021, we have seen energy markets begin to recover, slowly at first and then picking up steam as vaccinations started to become [...]
Dan Cwalinski Director of Contracts and Pricing Freedom Energy On March 9, 2022 ISO-NE published the results of Forward Capacity Auction 16 (FCA 16), which was held on February 7th, 2022. The auction closed with adequate power system resources to meet peak demand for the capacity commitment period spanning June 1, 2025 [...]
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