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East Coast prices bear an eerie resemblance to California of last spring, but pay no mind, say experts.
Is it plausible to look at wholesale electricity prices during the early summer months of last year in California, and try to make an educated guess as to what might happen this summer in the other regions? Some say yes, but Ed Krapels, the director of natural gas and electricity for Energy Security Analysis Inc., in Wakefield, Mass., says no.
"California is such a special case, that I don't think a comparison would tell much. ... It took talent to do what they did out there," he says. However, if you are in the business of forward thinking, compare the numbers with words straight from the horses' mouths: the independent system operators (ISO) and reliability councils for the regions shown in the following graph.
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East Coast prices bear an eerie resemblance to California of last spring, but pay no mind, say experts.
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