July 2025

Key Takeaways

Brent closed at $69.26 per barrel last week, down 1.5% week-over-week. WTI fell 1.6% week-over-week to $67.34 per barrel. Last Friday, the European Union passed more sanctions against Russia, including a lower price cap on Russian crude oil. The NYMEX prompt month increased $0.25/MMBtu week-over-week to $3.57/MMBtu. The rolling 12-month strip increased $0.09/MMBtu week-over-week to $4.08/MMBtu. Net storage injections totaled 46 Bcf for the week ending July 11. The NEPOOL 12-month electricity strip increased by 1.63% week-over-week to $68.34/MWh. The 2026, 2027, and 2028 calendar strips all experienced price increases.   



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CES Unveils Refreshed Market Summary Design

By Ora Rogovin, Senior Energy Analyst

With the July 2025 issue of the CES Insider, Competitive Energy Services is launching a refreshed design of one of our key product offerings, our weekly Market Summary. Open to all, the CES Market Summary is circulated to subscribers at the start of each work week and provides a clear, consistent, concise overview of key market trends and occurrences With the debut of the Market Summary’s new look, we wanted to take the opportunity to share the story behind the report.... 




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VOLUNTEERING & TEAM BUILDING | CES A-Team Gives Back

Portland Trails connects people with places and that works well for the Competitive Energy Services Team, where each and every day we’re all about keeping our connections strong and one of the ways we do that is through team-building activities and experiences. Most recently, our Analytics Team (a.k.a. The A-Team) further strengthened their already sturdy team bond by volunteering to help clean and maintain the Evergreen Woods Trails, four miles of beautiful hiking and biking trails located behind Portland’s historic Evergreen Cemetery


“As avid users of the many outdoor recreation opportunities and trails around Portland, our team’s afternoon of volunteering offered an opportunity to give back in some small way to our community while getting together for a group activity. By giving back in this way, we were able to spend some quality time together as a group and have some fun outside the office as a team in a productive way. The work that Portland Trails does to maintain accessible green space and outdoor recreation opportunities across the urban cityscape of Portland is part of what makes Portland such an amazing city. It was incredibly rewarding to help that work in a small way.” said Simon Pritchard, Managing Director of Analytics.


Afterward, the A-Team rounded out their day of volunteering by cooling down with Bubble Tea at Le’ Cha Café.


The CES Analytics’ Team (Left-to-Right): Alexandra Lermond, Conor Larkin, Catherine Nisbet, Lakshya Bharadwaj, Thea Aslanian, Emmett Burns, Ora Rogovin, Will Dickerman, Simon Pritchard, Eliza Pohle, and Tarik Cetin

COMMUNITY | Leo J. Monty Golf Tournament

The hottest day of the summer so far couldn’t stop CES and other charitably mind folks from supporting the 2025 Annual Leo J. Monty Scholarship Golf Tournament, which was held on Tuesday, June 24 at Four Oaks Country Club in Dracut, Massachusetts. The event was hosted by the Association for Facilities Engineering (Chapter 33), a professional membership organization serving professionals working in the built environment. CES values its partnership in AFE33 and the work they do in the community and enjoy supporting the tournament every year. Congratulations once again to AFE33 on a successful event!


Pictured (Left-to-Right):

Owen Friend-Gray, PE, Department of Public Works, City of Manchester; Tim Clougherty, Deputy Director of Manchester Department of Public Works, City of Manchester; Zack Hallock, Senior Energy Services Advisor, Competitive Energy Services and Daniel Long, Client Development Coordinator, from Competitive Energy Services

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