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PJM’s Evolving Large Load Interconnection Process: Executive Insights for Data Centers and Large Energy Users

ECM Executive Market Insights Power Access & Grid Intelligence- Article 1 of 4 part mini series Executive Summary Power availability has rapidly evolved from an operational consideration into a strategic...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Energy Budgets, ISO Direct Power Capacity, ISO Direct Procurement, Market Intelligence

What Recent NYISO Capacity Price Spikes May Signal for Large Energy Users

Executive Summary Capacity markets in New York have historically been relatively stable and predictable. That is why the recent spike in NYISO Zone J (New York City) capacity prices deserves...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • ISO Direct Power Capacity, Market Intelligence, Regulatory Updates

The Three “P’s” Continuing to Reshape Data Center Development

Why Power Continues to be the Defining Strategic Constraint for Data Centers and Large Energy Buyers Executive Summary Power availability is one of the largest constraints to data center expansion...

  • Data Centers
  • ISO Direct Power Capacity, Market Intelligence

What I Heard at DCD Connect NY: The Real Conversation About Power, Speed, and Control

At DCD Connect NY, one theme came through clearly in nearly every conversation I had: The data center industry is being pulled in two directions at once. On one side,...

  • Data Centers
  • Demand Response, Distributed Energy Resources, Market Intelligence

Demand Response Is No Longer Optional: Enterprise Energy Leaders on the Front Line of Grid Reliability

Executive Summary The U.S. electric grid is entering a critical transition period. Explosive load growth from data centers, accelerating electrification, intermittent renewable generation, and the retirement of conventional power plants...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • ISO Direct Procurement, Market Intelligence

ISO Direct Energy Procurement Explained | Wholesale Power for Large Energy Users

How Wholesale Electricity Access Creates a Strategic Advantage for Large Energy Users Executive Summary For large energy consumers—including data centers, commercial real estate portfolios, healthcare systems, financial institutions, and enterprise...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence, Regulatory Updates, Renewable Energy, Sustainability & Carbon

The Evolving Landscape of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs): What It Means for Data Centers, REITs, and Large Energy Users

Renewable Energy Credits, Hourly Matching, and Deliverable Markets: A Guide for Enterprise Sustainability Leaders Executive Summary For years, Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) offered corporations a straightforward path to claiming 100%...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence, Natural Gas Markets

Tightening Natural Gas Supply-Demand Fundamentals Translate into Growing Risk to Electricity Costs for Large Energy Consumers

Electricity generation costs—specifically electric supply—remain tightly linked to natural gas prices. For large energy consumers such as data centers, manufacturers, healthcare systems, medical campuses, financial institutions, and Real Estate Portfolios,...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • ISO Direct Power Capacity, Market Intelligence

ISO Interconnection Explained: How Large Energy Users Can Secure Power Without Delays through Enhanced Communications

For data centers, hospitals, REITs, and financial institutions, power procurement is no longer just a utility decision—it’s a mission-critical business priority. Whether expanding a campus, adding new facilities, or securing...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • ISO Direct Power Capacity, Market Intelligence, Regulatory Updates

PJM CIFP Analysis: Data Center Interconnection & BYOG Strategy

Executive Summary: PJM Rewrites the Rules for Data Center Power Access Data center energy demand in the PJM region is growing at a pace the grid cannot currently support. In...

  • Data Centers
  • ISO Direct Procurement, Market Intelligence, Retail Procurment

Why Retail Energy is Not Truly Pass-Through Wholesale: Unlocking Enterprise Savings with ISO Direct

For many enterprise energy buyers, signing a retail electricity contract every one to three years has become the default approach. It feels easy, predictable, and familiar. But here’s the hard...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Demand Response, Distributed Energy Resources, ISO Direct Power Capacity, ISO Direct Procurement, Market Intelligence, Retail Procurment

Why ISO Membership Cuts Energy Costs for Data Centers & Large Energy Users

For organizations with significant energy demand—data centers (hyperscale, colocation, enterprise), financial institutions, healthcare systems, REITs, and commercial real estate portfolios—energy is more than just a budget item. It’s a strategic...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Local Law Compliance, Regulatory Updates

LL97 in NYC: What Property Owners Need to Know Before 2025

Avoid penalties. Protect your assets and reputation. Here’s what every New York building owner should know about Local Law 97—and how to stay ahead. What Is LL97—and Why It Matters...

  • Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities
  • ISO Direct Power Capacity, ISO Direct Procurement, Market Intelligence

Unlocking the ISO Energy Opportunity: Why Going Direct to Source Matters

For more than 20 years, ECM Energy Management Services has helped Fortune 500 companies, data centers, financial institutions, REITs, and health systems in PJM, NYISO, and ISO-NE territories buy energy...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Distributed Energy Resources, Energy Storage, Local Law Compliance, Regulatory Updates

Steam to Ice – a financially prudent energy conservation measure for NYC’s new local LL97

Your commercial, industrial or residential building has a new energy conservation measure (ECM) to meet – and new financial opportunities to secure. Here’s what you need to know: 1. By...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Regulatory Updates

The Cost of Carbon: How Will It Affect You?

As the world struggles to define climate change and what causes it, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has submitted a proposal for introducing carbon pricing into the hourly...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence

Weather and Pricing Highlights – First Half 2019

Electricity pricing for the first quarter of 2019 was down over 28% from the first quarter of 2018 with an average of $39.29 (down from $54.89 in 2018) for the...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Regulatory Updates

NY Regulatory Update

Regulatory Alert: The New York State Public Service Commission is currently hearing arguments regarding their proposed Order to remove the ability of Energy Services Companies (ESCO’S) to sell to Residential...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Local Law Compliance, Sustainability & Carbon

NYC Council Caps GHG Emissions for Big Buildings; Could Cost Property Owners Billions of Dollars

In the last few weeks, NYC Council has passed legislature to cap carbon emissions for NYC buildings over 25,000 square feet, with different limits for commercial, industrial and residential buildings....

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Demand Response, Distributed Energy Resources

NY REV & The Path to DER Financial Viability

Reforming the Energy Vision or REV, calls on all NY State residents to take a new look at how they use energy and how they can alter that usage to...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Regulatory Updates, Renewable Energy, Sustainability & Carbon

Transforming Your Energy Vision

Most Energy consumers hide behind the traditional methods of commodity purchasing, trying to time the market when they should be buying insurance or trying to find the “best” purchasing options....

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Demand Response, Distributed Energy Resources

REV-D and Distributed Energy Systems: New developments affecting the way you could soon receive your electricity

REV-D stands for Renewing the Energy Vision, part of a continuing initiative by Governor Cuomo to transform New York’s electric industry away from the traditional, regulated, cost-plus driven system to...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Local Law Compliance, Regulatory Updates, Renewable Energy, Sustainability & Carbon

Regulatory Alert!

Effective August 1st, 2016, the New York State Public Service Commission issued Order #15-E-0302 and Order #16-E-0270 in conjunction with and as part of New York State’s initiative “Renewing the...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence

A Total Market Strategy Combining the Best of Both Analytical Worlds

To uncover hedging opportunities for clients, electricity market analysts traditionally rely on one of two methodologies: fundamental analysis of market factors or technical analysis of mathematical models. Analysts from both...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence

4th Quarter Pricing Results and Outlook

Pricing Day Ahead Market (DAM) pricing continued to fall throughout the entire quarter due to the mild winter weather and the surplus of Natural Gas in storage. Forward pricing for...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence

Weather Update & Projections: Spring 2016

November and December 2015 were extremely mild with record breaking temperatures in many parts of the Northeast. Mild temperatures and low levels of snow fall added to the pressure on...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence

The Fate of Nuclear Power: Why It Is Important To You

The United States has been entertaining the debate regarding the pros and cons of Nuclear Power and its development since 1979 when the world watched as one of the reactors...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence

Weather Projections: Winter 2015-2016

If it is possible for multiple weather services to agree on the weather forecast than the winter of 2016 may be the first. WSI, NOAA and even the Farmer’s Almanac...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence

3rd Quarter 2015 Pricing Summary

Day Ahead Market Pricing in the North-East markets has touched new lows as the supply of natural gas continues to grow. Forward Pricing is also trading at historic lows with...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability & Carbon

Domestic Renewable Portfolio Standards and Renewable Energy Credits: The Evolution Is On

Over the past decade, U.S. political conversations have increasingly turned to discussions about energy sustainability programs and environmentally-friendly energy generation projects. In turn, 30 states have developed individual Renewable Portfolio...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Regulatory Updates

Federal Versus State Jurisdiction: the Argument Over FERC Order 745

A year ago, we wrote to you about the decision from the Washington, DC US Court of Appeals to vacate the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Order 745 regarding Demand...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence, Regulatory Updates

The Cost of Reliability

Under normal circumstances, the primary task of Regional Transmission Operators and Independent System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) is economic dispatch. This means meeting load needs at the lowest possible operating cost while...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • ISO Direct Procurement, Market Intelligence

Debunking the Top 4 Myths of Electric Wholesale Procurement

When I talk to prospective clients about the benefits of transitioning to electric wholesale procurement, much of my time is spent correcting inaccuracies they’ve learned elsewhere. So I’m devoting this...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Energy Budgets, Market Intelligence

How Global Economics Impact Your Energy Equation

  Last weekend, I made my annual trip to a privately held global economic forum. This year’s attendees featured a half dozen of the world’s leading global economists (including former...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical
  • Market Intelligence

The Power Of A Centralized Org Design

When clients and other colleagues talk about the “trend” of Fortune 500 companies centralizing their energy and energy-related functions, I think we’re looking at something much bigger. There are numerous...

  • All Sectors, Commercial Real Estate & REITS, Data Centers, Financial Institutions, Healthcare & Universities, Manufacturing & Industrial, Pharmaceutical

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