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Five Things Foreign LNG Underwriters Should Re-Price After Yesterday's FERC NOPR

Mr John Patrick Herold · May 31, 2026 · Posted by: P&L Energy

Yesterday's unanimous Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rewriting the natural gas blanket certificate regime under Part 157 Subpart F is the most consequential U.S. midstream ...

ANEEL Just Showed Its Homework: Why Two Seminars in One Week Should Move Brazil Up Every Foreign Underwriter's Sovereign Ladder

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Mr John Patrick Herold · May 27, 2026 · Posted by: P&L Energy

Within a single 24-hour window in late May, Brazil's electricity regulator did something that will not move a stock price, will not clear a megawatt, and will not produce a headline outside the trade press. ANEEL anno...

New England's ROE Fight Isn't a Rate Case — It's a Repricing of Every PPA Signed North of Connecticut

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Mr John Patrick Herold · May 26, 2026 · Posted by: P&L Energy

A month ago in these pages, I argued that ANEEL's Âmbar decision was not a consumer-protection ruling but a credit event — a regulator quietly repricing the bankable cashflows under Brazil's senior infrastructure debt...

ANEEL's LRCAP 2026 Homologation: Capacity Pricing Now Has a Floor — Here's What It Means for PPAs and Foreign Capital

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Mr John Patrick Herold · May 22, 2026 · Posted by: P&L Energy

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Redrawing the Map: How Iranian Routing Vulnerabilities Force a Restructuring of LatAm LNG Import Deals

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Mr Philip Herold · May 21, 2026 · Posted by: P&L Energy

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The "Pay-to-Play" Grid: How Kavulla's Data Center Proposal Will Rewrite Corporate PPA Risk Allocation

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Mr Philip Herold · May 21, 2026 · Posted by: P&L Energy

May 2026 · Part three in a series on FERC data center interconnection policy

Why Long-Term Deals Are Suddenly Everywhere in Energy

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Mr John Patrick Herold · May 12, 2026 · Posted by: P&L Energy

From Petrobras signing 12-year vessel contracts to US utilities drafting decade-long bilateral agreements for renewable capacity, the global energy sector is abandoning spot-market flexibility in favor of supply chain...

From Interconnection Queues to Cost Allocation: FERC's Next Data Center Battleground

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Mr John Patrick Herold · May 08, 2026 · Posted by: P&L Energy

In April, I wrote about how FERC's interconnection rulemaking was finally unclogging the generation-side bottleneck that had stalled thousands of megawatts of new capacity. The thesis was straightforward: regulatory m...

Test about grok image API

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Mr John Patrick Herold · May 06, 2026

Patrick Herold is tracking the latest implementation work around xAI’s Grok image API support, with the native provider configuration now outlined and ready for the next verification steps. The update centers on the a...

Aneel Isn't Killing Brazilian Solar—It's Killing the Speculators, and Serious Capital Should Applaud

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Mr John Patrick Herold · May 05, 2026 · Posted by: P&L Energy

Last week, Brazil's electricity regulator Aneel denied Newen Energia's request for a liability exemption after a three-year delay on its solar PV portfolio, signaling the likely revocation of the company's generation ...

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