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The Build vs. Buy Decision in the AI Era

AI makes building look cheap, fast, and safe. Learn where the build vs. buy line should sit for your power market data and analytics infrastructure.

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The Race to Shape Western Power Markets

Explaining two visions for Western power markets, SPP CEO Lanny Nickell and CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer share their views.

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Asset Development and Management in the Age of AI and Data Centers

Discover five critical issues arising from the growth of AI and data centers to plan for today to successfully operate in the power grid of tomorrow.

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Energy Markets in 2026 and Beyond

Dive into the challenges energy markets are facing—and their proposed solutions—and what this means for your strategy.

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Questions to Ask Your Bid-to-bill Vendor

See 11 practical questions to evaluate bid-to-bill vendors—grounded in real operational and financial workflows.

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12 Questions to Ask Your Long-Term Power Forecast Provider

This white paper explains what Integrated System Planning (ISP) is, how it can improve teams’ efficiency and accuracy, and how to start implementing ...

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Why Customers Call Yes Energy the Gold Standard

From real-time generation to day-ahead positions, discover how Yes Energy's platform makes complex energy markets simpler.

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12 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Power System Modeling Platform

See the critical questions you need to evaluate whether your current or potential modeling platform is built for the power grid's complexity, now and ...

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14 Questions to Ask Before You Choose a Data Provider

How do you know your power market data is reliable? See 14 questions to ask.

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Integrated System Planning White Paper

This white paper explains what Integrated System Planning (ISP) is, how it can improve teams’ efficiency and accuracy, and how to start implementing ...

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The ERCOT Pricing Report: What’s Driving Price Changes Through 2030

Explore ERCOT's evolving market dynamics with our white paper, revealing pricing trends, congestion patterns, and future grid changes through 2030.

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How to Navigate the New Era of Energy Market Volatility

Explore the evolving energy market landscape with insights on policy changes, supply chain challenges, and strategies for navigating volatility. ...

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ERCOT in Flux

Discover insights on the evolving Texas power market, including RTC+B impacts and challenges from large-load growth. Download the white paper for ...

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Assessing Your Energy Market Data and Analytics Readiness

Assess your energy market data readiness with our practical checklists. Maximize ROI by aligning teams and optimizing data processes for better ...

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How Yes Energy Serves Power Markets

Discover how Yes Energy enhances power market efficiency and reliability amid the evolving energy landscape. Optimize your trading strategies today.

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Turn Grid Complexity into a Competitive Edge

Bidding Strategy and Congestion: Turn Grid Complexity into a Competitive Edge. This video is for traders and asset managers focused on optimizing ...

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Hub-Level Prices Won't Cut It: What Yes Energy's PJM Forecast Says About the Next 20 Years

Yes Energy recently released its updated long-term outlook for PJM in GridSite Nodal, its fundamental-based node-level modeling platform. The ...

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Making Global Power Trading Easier

Discover how Yes Energy equips customers for SPP markets, helping power traders enhance profitability and navigate market complexities effectively.

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Enhance Your Energy Trading: Bridge the Gap between Historical Power Prices and Forecasts

In this white paper, you’ll learn how Live Power® data helps bal-day, next-day, and term traders create generation and price forecasts.

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Evaluation of Probabilistic Electricity Demand Forecasts

With behind-the-meter renewables, climate change, and the rise of EVs, probabilistic demand forecasts are gaining popularity.

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NEISO Backed into a Corner During Elliott with No Gas Online

Live Power launched coverage of NEISO plants in December of 2022. Shortly after, Winter Storm Elliott brought sub-freezing temperatures to New ...

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PJM Power Market Outlook FAQ: What’s Driving Long-Term Prices, Congestion, and Market Risk?

PJM is facing significant change over the next two decades as large load growth, generation additions and retirements, transmission development, fuel ...

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Complex Load Growth: Setting the Stage

This is the first article in Yes Energy’s summer demand series covering demand-side market complexities. Alex Bennitt, Product Manager for Yes ...

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11 Questions to Ask Your SPP Markets+ Vendor

Prepare for the upcoming SPP Markets+ with essential insights on platform selection, data auditability, and operational readiness for a successful ...

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4 Questions to Ask Before You Build Your Own Power Market Data Infrastructure

You've got a trader, an analyst, or an engineer on your team who's spent an afternoon with Claude or Copilot and come back with a working prototype: ...

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Long Term Price Nodal and Zonal Forecasting with GridSite

Join our webinar to learn about Yes Energy's long-term price forecasting in GridSite, focusing on ERCOT, and how to make informed decisions.

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Seismic Shifts and the Ongoing Regulatory Aftershocks

Discover how to navigate the evolving Western energy markets with insights on new programs and strategies to enhance bidding and settlement accuracy.

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How Utilities Can Tap into the Power of Energy Market Data

Navigate the changing Western energy markets with insights on ERCOT RTC+B, CAISO EDAM, and SPP expansion. Download our white paper for expert ...

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How Yes Energy is Preparing Customers for SPP Markets+

Discover how Yes Energy equips customers for SPP markets, helping power traders enhance profitability and navigate market complexities effectively.

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How EnCompass Helps with Long-Term Grid Modeling

Senior Portfolio Modeler Nicole Kessler explains how power grid modeling enables her organization plan decades into the future.

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Making More Profitable Power Trading Decisions

Discover trends and insights in energy markets, enhancing your understanding of price spreads and market impacts for better decision-making.

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SPP RTOE Early Market Impacts and Data Access

Analyze SPP RTOE early market results. Learn how dual reference buses, MEC decoupling, and DC tie constraints drive price separation across SPP West ...

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Nodal Power Markets: Data Starter Pack

Ask a data engineer, and the first thing you'll hear is that the US power markets generate some of the most complex data of any trading market. If ...

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Meet the Architects of LMP: Tabors and Rudkevich Join Yes Energy

New expertise expands Yes Energy’s bench in market modeling and forecast validation Earlier this year, Yes Energy acquired Enelytix, Inc., along with ...

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Locational Marginal Emission Rates: Where, When and What

The advent of greater concern for climate change and specifically CO2 emissions has led to a number of studies and methodologies attempting to ...

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Utility Resource Planning Made Simple

Discover key trends and insights in energy markets, enhancing your understanding of price spreads, market impacts, and unified data solutions for ...

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6 Months in Review: ERCOT RTC+B Insights and Trends

On December 5, 2025, ERCOT implemented its long-awaited market overhaul. RTC+B, short for real-time co-optimization plus batteries, was a huge step ...

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Preparing for ERCOT RTC+B Changes Webinar

Discover how to navigate the evolving Western energy markets with insights on new programs and strategies to enhance bidding and settlement accuracy.

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FAQs about Early Market Impacts of CAISO EDAM and DAME

CAISO's EDAM and DAME have now been live for just over two months, giving market participants an opportunity to assess how the new markets are ...

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FTR Market Performance and Trends Review: June 2025 – May 2026

The financial transmission rights (FTRs) market continues to have a highly concentrated profitability landscape, with PJM and MISO accounting for ...

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Queue the Fireworks: PJM is About to Set an All-time Record

On July 2, 2026, Day Ahead prices cleared north of $2,000/MWh in PJM, with NYISO and MISO both posting four-digit prints of their own as a dome of ...

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A Day in the Life of an EnCompass Cloud User

EnCompassTM is Yes Energy's energy market modeling and electricity price forecasting software, built for energy professionals who need to make ...

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From Bid to Bill: How Yes Energy's PowerCore is Closing the Loop on Energy Market Operations

The energy industry is changing quickly. New market constructs are coming online. Renewables are reshaping generation portfolios. And the teams ...

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Exploring the Five Biggest Trends in Energy Spreads

If you work in energy markets, you've probably noticed that price spreads have been behaving differently lately — and it's not your imagination. ...

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FAQs about Early Market Impacts of SPP RTOE

SPP's RTO Expansion (RTOE) is now live, and market participants are beginning to evaluate early impacts across the expanded footprint. In our SPP ...

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Closing the Gap Between Energy Market Intelligence and Market Operations: A Unified Data Foundation

Energy markets have never been more data-rich—or more complex.

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How Two Line Rebuilds Likely Ended a Five-Year Congestion Pattern in PJM

The rebuilds of PPL’s Berks–Lavino 69 kV and South Akron-Millwood-Strasburg 230 kV lines in Pennsylvania represent a good example of how transmission ...

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60-Second Power Grid Monitoring Technology for Better Decisions

Identifying price movers in power markets often starts with physical changes on the grid—a unit ramps, a line loads, a plant trips. Real-time ...

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Shaping Western Energy Markets: A Conversation with CAISO & SPP CEOs

For decades, the Western US has operated without the day-ahead electricity markets in operation in other regions. Two competing day-ahead western ...

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Planning and Developing for More AI/Data Center Power Demand

The US power grid is undergoing a structural transformation—and asset owners, operators, and developers need to take into account new challenges and ...

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CAISO EDAM and DAME FAQ: Virtuals, Physical Trading, and CRR Changes Explained

CAISO's Day-Ahead Market Enhancements (DAME) and Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM) are reshaping how the Western grid operates. Whether you're trying ...

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CAISO's EDAM and DAME: What Utilities Must Do Now

CAISO’s EDAM and DAME go live on May 1, 2026. Learn what’s changing, how utilities will be affected, and how your team can get ready for this major ...

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Spotting Congestion-Related Electricity Market Opportunities

Few price signals in electricity markets are more influential than congestion. Whether you're hedging a portfolio, optimizing dispatch, or evaluating ...

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EDAM and DAME in Practice: Frequently Asked Questions

As CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM) and Day-Ahead Market Enhancements (DAME) approach go-live, utilities are moving beyond high-level ...

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Yes Energy Data vs. Traditional Nodal Power Market Data: What’s the Advantage?

Your power market decisions are only as strong as your data. Yet, many market participants rely on incomplete, stale, or manually compiled ...

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SPP Markets+ Is Entering Its Execution Phase—Here’s What That Means

Overview Recently, Southwest Power Pool (SPP) released a wave of Markets+ documentation, including the SPP Markets+ Settlements Calculation Guide, ...

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SPP’s RTO Expansion Is Now Live!

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) RTO Expansion is now live, and Yes Energy customers can start diving into the data now! There are over 1,000 new price ...

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SPP RTO Expansion: Frequently Asked Questions

The Yes Energy team is preparing for Southwest Power Pool (SPP) to extend its Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) into the Western ...

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So You’ve Got Locational Marginal Price Data, Can You Trust It?

What Is a Locational Marginal Price? A locational marginal price (LMP) is the cost of delivering the next megawatt of electricity to a certain node.

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Preparing for SPP’s RTO Expansion: What Market Participants Need to Know

Summary Starting April 1, 2026, SPP will extend its RTO into the Western Interconnection, which will bring new market participants, new trading ...

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What to Look for in a Modern Energy Market Simulation Software—and Why It Matters

Today’s energy market simulation software is expected to answer increasingly complex questions about system behavior, asset value, and operational ...

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A Letter from the CEO: A Lookback on EMPOWER 2026

Hello, Power Market Lovers! I’d like to comment on the only thing where I am more qualified than anyone else on Earth: the annual Yes Energy customer ...

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Combining Renewables, Storage, and Market Services for Maximum Value: A Practical Guide to Designing Hybrid Assets with EnCompass

The energy landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by growing demand for flexible, reliable, and low-carbon power. To navigate these challenges, ...

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Congestion in ERCOT Creates Trading Opportunities

Day-ahead traders in ERCOT may have noticed significant congestion since mid-February in the area of Fort Mason, Texas. Split between four different ...

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GridSite's Winter 2026 Long-Term Forecast Projects Lower ERCOT Prices and Reduced Interzonal Volatility

Explore a winter 2026 power market outlook for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), based on Yes Energy’s and Horizons Energy’s data. ...

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Exploring Complex ERCOT Load Growth Dynamics

Market dynamics are facing increased uncertainty as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) load growth estimates skyrocket. Meanwhile, ...

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How Do Natural Gas Power Plants Work, and How Many Are Coming Online? | Yes Energy

Natural gas plays a central role in the American power grid, accounting for 43.1% of all utility-scale electricity generation and far outpacing coal ...

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CAISO EDAM Basics: What Market Participants Need to Know

The western power market is entering a new phase of regional coordination. CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM) is designed to expand the ...

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Yes Energy Achieves FedRAMP Authorization for PowerCore Software, Unlocking New Potential for Federal Energy Agencies

Marking a milestone in our commitment to security, compliance, and public-sector innovation, our PowerCore™ bid-to-bill software has achieved ...

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Market Player Chooses Yes Energy Bid-to-bill Software to Navigate SPP Markets+

A major market player has chosen Yes Energy to manage its participation in Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Markets+. This is the second customer selecting ...

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Energy Contract Management in Complex Markets: Why Automation Matters

Community choice aggregators (CCAs) and public power companies are scaling faster than ever—expanding their renewable portfolios, navigating dynamic ...

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Data and Analytics Best Practices for Power Markets

If you’re planning to participate for the first time or enter a new market, it’s imperative to optimize your data and analytics strategy. The ...

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Tracking the Rapidly Transforming Power Grid

Navigating the uncertainties of the ongoing and rapidly transforming power grid is imperative for longer-term trading strategies. Infrastructure ...

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The New Era of Electric Power Markets: What Developers, Utilities, and Traders Must Know

The US power sector is entering one of its most uncertain eras in decades. New regulations under the Trump administration reverse support for clean ...

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The Electric Load Growth Era Is Here

Complex Load Growth Creating Uncertainty Around Demand Center Operations and Supply Stack The electric load growth era is here. Weather-adjusted ...

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ERCOT RTC+B Market Redesign FAQ Part II

You asked. We answered in a part I blog post. You asked more questions. We answered in this part II blog! Browse the common questions that market ...

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Artificial Intelligence in Energy Markets: The Case for AI-ready Data and Human Expertise

Power markets are entering a new era of increased load and transmission demand. As infrastructure complexity grows and data volumes expand, market ...

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Report: Changes to the US Electric Grid and How to Prepare

A once-steady US electricity demand curve has jolted awake. Data center build-outs (especially AI workloads), crypto mining, and new industrial loads ...

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