By Zack Hallock, Senior Energy Services Advisor

If you’re like me, you look forward to warmer temps and long, carefree summer days. There’s much to consider and plan for each summer season – a result of dramatic temperatures and weather patterns that tend to lean to the extreme. What can you expect this summer – and what is the impact on the commodities markets? In this blog, I will share this season’s weather predictions and possible energy pricing scenarios.

By all accounts, the United States is expected to see hot and dry temperatures across much of the country this June, July, and August – with a few exceptions in the Rust Belt and Pacific Northwest. Moreover, summer of 2025 could rival 2024’s record-breaking heat, likely brushing past last year’s maximum temperatures.  

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If the changing energy regulatory landscape has you dreaming of going to Oz, listen in!

Turbulent geopolitical tensions are forcing consumers in the United States and in nations the world over to reconsider energy security, the diversification of energy supply, new energy supply routes and energy costs. Many companies are wondering how commodity markets will react to the quickly changing regulatory landscape.

We recognize that by June, the energy landscape could look very different than it does today – and that topics are likely to shift, change, or evolve in a new way. Know that CES has its eye on market trends, on geopolitics, and related ripple effects and will present the most relevant and current information that you need to know to help you best manage your business.

Register to attend Competitive Energy Services’ free online energy market seminar, titled “Volatility, Geopolitics, and a Changing Regulatory Landscape – Oh My!: The Impact on Business,” which will be held on Wednesday, June 11 from Noon – 1:00 p.m. (including Q&A) and join CES Energy experts who will be on hand that day to cover top-of-mind energy topics, including:

💡Geopolitics & the Impact on the Energy Industry – Do tariffs add costs that consumers weren’t expecting?

💡Natural Gas Production - What will happen with natural gas production, demand and exports?

💡Commodities Markets – a review of energy commodities markets including current trends and future outlooks.

💡Renewables - Will the pace at which we adopt renewables slow?

All seminar attendees are automatically entered into our end-of-seminar drawing!

We look forward to seeing you!

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

By Paul Hawken

In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being — giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world. (Amazon Book Review)