SPP TRACKER: Surging power demand, nuclear outage boost Sep power prices

摘要

Surging peakloads combined with plunging nuclear output toovercome stronger wind output and weaker natural gas prices,boosting September Southwest Power Pool wholesale power pricesyear on year, though prices weakened from August, an S&P Global Platts analysis shows.October and November on-peak forwards were also up incomparison with what their 2018 counterparts averaged a year agoSeptember, despite year-on-year decreases in gas forwards,apparently on the basis of a forecast for substantially warmertemperatures throughout the region.