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Tom Bausemer, Chief Operating Officer

As our Chief Operating Officer, Tom Bausemer leads the ESAI Power practice, focusing on the New England, New York, and PJM and Midcontinent power markets. Tom brings over 25 years of experience in the information and commodity trading markets. Prior to joining ESAI Power, Tom spent 4 years as CRO at FastMarkets RISI, and also held senior management roles in consulting and business development at Forrester Research during his 11-year tenure.

Tom graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a BA in Journalism.

Posts

PJM Capacity Auctions Current and Future Schedule | Capacity Watch Blog

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The PJM BRA for delivery year 2026/27 will take place in a few weeks. PJM is scheduled to open the offer window for the 2026/27 BRA on July 9th, 2025, for market participants. The Capacity auction window will close on July 16th, and PJM plans to post the auction results on July 22nd. The subsequent PJM Capacity Auction is scheduled in December. PJM is scheduled to open the offer window for 2027/28 BRA on December 4th for market participants. The auction window closes on December 10th, and PJM will post auction results on December 17th, 2025.

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PJM’s Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI) | Generation Asset Monitor

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On May 2, PJM selected 51 projects, totaling 11,793 MW, to join the Transition Cycle 2 (TC2) generation interconnection study group (AG2 and AH1 queues) through its Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI).  PJM had intended to select 50 projects in the RRI, however two projects received the same score, which resulted in PJM selecting 51 projects.

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ESAI at Projects & Money, January 27-29, 2025

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ESAI’s COO, Tom Bausemer, will attend the Projects and Money conference at The Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. Projects & Money is the meeting where the country’s leading project developers learn what they need to know to source investment and debt capital in 2025. Projects & Money is a unique opportunity to hear the nation’s leading debt and equity investors provide unique perspectives on the latest trends, approaches, issues and opportunities in the energy infrastructure market.

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Trump’s Election Win impacts Ozone Season CSAPR Programs | Emissions Watch Blog

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Emissions Watch is our quarterly report that contains ESAI Power’s outlooks and views on the emissions markets. ESAI provides regular updates and analysis on developments in the RGGI, SO2, NOx and CO2 emissions markets and price forecasts for state and regional markets.

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ESAI Power NYISO Generation Asset Monitor Update | NYISO Generation Asset Monitor Blog

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This update provides a high-level overview of our recently published NYISO Generation Asset Monitor (GAM) report and database. The NYISO GAM tracks the Interconnection queues for additions, forecasts plant retirements and plants deemed at risk of retirement, and provides an outlook for the timeline of renewable generation projects in PJM, MISO, NYISO and ISO-NE.

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PJM Capacity Forecast BRA 2025/26 | Capacity Watch

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We will soon publish our Capacity Watch for PJM report, which provides a comprehensive analysis of market drivers and recent developments, including Market Rules Changes for Capacity Accreditation (ELCC & CIFP), Increased Demand Forecast for Data Centers & AI and Retirement Drivers: At-risk assets driven by coal ash rules.

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Emissions Watch | EPA Rules Update

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ESAI Power’s latest Emissions Watch update, issued on May 16, 2024, provided our customers with our analysis of the four final rules issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in April 2024, including the Greenhouse Gas Rule (GHG), the Updated Effluent Limitation Guidelines (ELGs), the Updated Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) and the Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Rule.

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NYISO Installed Capacity Market Summer Strip 2024 Update | Capacity Watch Blog

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The NYISO Summer Capability Period will begin on May 1st, with the following auction schedule:
Wednesday, March 27th – The NYISO ICAP Summer 2024 Strip Auction Bid Period Opens.
Thursday, March 28th – The Summer Strip Auction Bid Period closes.
Monday, April 1st – Results of the auction are posted.
Tuesday, April 9th – First monthly auction for Summer 2024.
April 24th – 25th – May Spot Market Auction.
April 29th – May Spot Market Auction results are posted.

ESAI’s Capacity Watch update to clients discusses the key auction parameters, changes in supply since Summer 2023/24, and ESAI’s forecast for the Summer period.  ESAI’s NYISO Capacity Watch update includes predicted Summer 2024 Clearing prices for NYCA, Zone J, Zone K, and the G-J Locality.

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MISO PRA Scheduled to Start March 26th | Capacity Watch Blog

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ESAI brings 20 years of experience analyzing and forecasting the Capacity Markets in PJM, ISO-NE and NYISO, into our new Capacity coverage of MISO. ESAI also maintains a MISO Energy Asset Database (Delivered to subscribers in excel) that tracks the MISO Interconnection queue to forecast Renewables Additions that produces a Probability Weighted Renewable Additions forecast, any Fossil Additions, and also any plant Retirements or forecasting plants at risk of retirement. 

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PJM Load Forecast Update | February 2024 | Energy Watch Blog

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ESAI Power’s latest Energy Watch market update includes our current 10-year power and natural gas price forecast across PJM, NYISO and ISO-NE. The update also includes our natural gas price forecast, based on our fundamental long-term view, along with forward market prices for the initial years. This blog post will delve into the critical details behind our near-term and long-term 10-year energy market forecast for ISO-New England.

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