Energy Procurement Blog

This blog comments on energy market fluctuations due to supply and demand issues. We focus primary on natural gas and electricity markets across North America. The intended use of this blog is to help make energy procurement decisions.

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The Effect of Stock Market Downturn and Natural Gas Pricing

by Paul Van Erem on Wednesday, 10 August 2011 Natural Gas 0 Comments

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The last time we saw the stock market take a dive like we saw on Monday, August 8th was in October of 2008. Sometimes referred to as the Crash of 2008, it set a record weekly loss of 1,874 points or 18.1% during the week of October 6th.

So we began thinking - how would a downturn in August affect the price of natural gas? Looking back at the crashes of 1929, 1987 and 2008, they share one common element...

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How Does Our Current Economy Affect Our Energy Costs

by Paul Van Erem on Monday, 01 August 2011 Energy Rates 0 Comments

calculator and graph.png The question has been raised many times lately about how the economy especially the latest news about raising the debt ceiling can have on energy prices. This blog will attempt to answer that question as it relates to natural gas and electricity pricing.

Since natural gas prices affect the price of electricity let’s start there. The largest pricing component of natural gas is set by market forces which is the buying and selling of the commodity by market players, based on supply and demand...

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