Separate Paths – Part 2

By Ana Rasmussen, Intern Our last blog post Separate Paths – Part 1looked at how electricity distribution costs have been rising since 2008 and many of our readers have had questions about just why this is happening. In order to explore this, and to try to get some answers, I dove in and analyzed seven…

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Separate Paths – Part 1

By Ana Rasmussen, Intern Since the shale boom began in earnest during 2008, natural gas prices in the US wholesale market have fallen dramatically. Prices have hovered within the 2 to 6 dollar per million Btu (mmBtu) range over the last few years, with the prompt month NYMEX natural gas contract trading at a remarkably…

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