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In their blog titled “Winter 2024-25 Natural Gas Recap: How Did Prices Compare to the Past Decade?”, Competitive Energy Services’ Keith Sampson, Senior Vice President, Energy Services and Max Webb, Managing Director of Pricing Analytics recap the 2024-25 winter, cover what has (and has not) changed with the northeast natural gas landscape over the last decade and explore how these changes have impacted winter natural gas prices. Keith and Max also outline key findings that can help consumers mitigate the risk of cost spikes in future winters. Read more by clicking the link below and reach out to Keith Sampson or anyone on the CES Energy Services Advisory team if you have questions or wish to discuss this topic and your energy goals and needs in more detail.

https://www.competitive-energy.com/blog/winter-2024-natural-gas-recap-how-did-prices-compare-to-the-past-decade

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While on vacation over Thanksgiving weekend, Competitive Energy Services’ Will Dickerman, Energy Analyst, and his family visited and toured the Hoover Dam, operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The hydroelectric arch-gravity dam straddles the Colorado River in the Black Canyon of the Colorado, between the Nevada and Arizona border. Constructed between 1931 and 1935, Hoover Dam stands 726 feet tall, the approximate height of a sixty-story building. The dam contains enough concrete to build a four-foot-wide sidewalk around the equator. It weighs as much as 18 Empire State Buildings. Seventeen main turbines provide a nameplate generating capacity of 2,080 megawatts (MW).

Before Hoover Dam was constructed, the flow of the Colorado River was unpredictable, with frequent periods of drought and devasting floods that would wreak havoc on the flatter topography downstream. Constructing a dam here meant diverting the flow of the Colorado by constructing four 56-foot diameter diversion tunnels. Because the concrete would take more than 125 years to cool and set on its own, engineers devised a system where construction crews would pour blocks and cool the concrete using chilled water from a refrigeration plant. After four years of around-the-clock work, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated Hoover Dam in 1935.

“As an energy professional and college history major, visiting the Hoover Dam combined two passions. Seeing the colossal scale of the dam, penstocks, and spillways left me in awe. Learning about the dam’s history gave me a greater appreciation for the Hoover Dam as a 1930s engineering marvel and the role of water in shaping the modern American West.”

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When 2024 began, we had our eyes focused on our client’s energy needs and initiatives, the commodities markets (per usual), and, as always, on the broader industry and universal trends that were going to make an impact throughout the year. As 2024 unfolded, Competitive Energy Services energy experts shared their insights on net metering for New England businesses, the SEC climate rules and requirements, formulating strategic procurement plans, fuel security in New England and other regions, clean heat standards, liquid biofuels, renewable fuels, trends in regional peak electricity demand and the CES Self-Help program, and more. In case you missed these informative articles, they are highlighted at a quick glance in our year-end look-back article titled: CES Insights: A Look Back on 2024.

https://www.competitive-energy.com/blog/ces-insights-a-look-back-on-2024

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