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Nodal Exchange

Morningstar now offers the following from Nodal Exchange:
 End-of-day future settlement price, volume, and open interest

Path: TopRelation:Energy:Forwards:Electricity:NodalExchange:Isone:Eod
Ex. Symbol: NODALEOD.AAA
Granularity: Daily
Ex. Feed: NodalExchange_EODFutures
Ex. Key: AAA; 12/31/2016

Net Connect

Morningstar now offers the following from Net Connect:
 Price of Conversion Neutrality Charge

Path: TopRelation:Energy:EuropeanNaturalGas:DEUNGas:NetConnect:Fees
Ex. Symbol: NETCONNECT.CONVERSION.NEUTRALITY.CHARGE
Granularity: Daily
Ex. Feed: NetConnect_ConversionNeutralityCharge
Ex. Key: Conversion Neutrality Charge

Commodities Research


PJM 2019-20 CP and Base Auction Outlook: Premium Here to Stay with Help from Higher Coal and Peaking Unit Offers

Since the lower New England Forward Capacity Auction No. 10 clear, PJM participants fear a similar fate for the PJM RPM 2019-20 capacity auction that opens May 17. We believe this fear is unwarranted. PJM will have to clear a significant amount of coal and peaking gas capacity in the upcoming auction. We expect a flatter coal capacity supply curve associated with lower dispatch, higher cycling costs, and energy revenue. We also see higher capacity offers from peaking gas units as a result of lower option premiums in fixed-price forwards. We also believe that generators will continue to demand a performance premium associated with potential performance penalty risks in the energy market. The implied premium that marginal generators priced into previous auctions is already on the low end. The market-implied expected value of shortfall hours is less than two hours per year compared with the base auction.

We forecast the PJM RTO 2019-20 auction to clear $160 per megawatt-day for capacity performance, or CP, units and $150/MW-day for base units. We believe the base auction, which will clear the lowest quality assets, will continue clearing at a small discount to CP because of the high marginal cost of capacity of these assets. The continued coupled bidding behavior between the CP and base auction and high rates of market mitigation for the base auction also supports a small base discount to CP. In the last base auction, 46% of units were mitigated.

For the cost-of-new-entry, or CONE, areas, we see the potential for lower EMAAC separation as a result of higher year-over-year CETL values. However, we also see the potential for SWMAAC to break out. The lower year-over-year CETL values could have a big impact given how small SWMAAC is compared with other CONE areas. Given the age and relatively higher gas prices in SWMAAC, we are surprised that this region has not previously separated, while this CONE area remains highly constrained in the energy market

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