NEI Energy Markets Report (May 22nd - 26th)

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

Electricity prices were decreasing in the West and mixed to decreasing throughout the rest of the country last week (see pages 1 & 2). Gas prices at the Henry Hub fell $0.21 to $5.92/MMBtu (see page 4).

Uranium prices (from UxC and TradeTech) were unchanged at $43.00/lb U3O8 (see page 7).

Nuclear capacity availability was at 85 percent last week. Three units were in refueling outages, three units completed refueling outages last week and eight units were shutdown for maintenance (see pages 2 and 3).

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

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