NEI Energy Markets Report (March 27th - 31st)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week:

Electricity prices mostly decreased throughout the country (see pages 1 & 2). Gas prices at the Henry Hub rose $0.08 to $7.18/MMBtu (see page 4).

From 2006-2010, the expected capacities coming online are 38,570 MW for natural gas, 36,146 MW for coal and 17,466 MW for wind (see page 7).

Nuclear capacity availability was at 82% last week. Fifteen units were in refueling outages. Palo Verde 3 and Palisades began their refueling outages and Hatch 1 completed its refueling outage in about 44 days (see pages 2 & 3).

For the report click here (pdf). It is also located on NEI's Nuclear Statistics webpage.

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