Summer 2026 Power Markets Outlooks | ERCOT, MISO, PJM, CAISO, Mid-C, NYISO, and ISONE

Congestion, Load and Weather. Know What’s Coming Before It Hits 

Whether you’re hedging congestion risk or chasing real-time spreads, you can’t afford to be surprised by this summer’s conditions. This four-part series is built for power traders and analysts who want to get ahead of where price and load are heading based on historical analogs, and new grid constraints from load and generation.  

FTR Traders: Spot profitable paths and adjust for outage-driven flow shifts. 
Day-Ahead Traders: Align your bids with forecasted demand, prices and constraints. 
Real-Time Traders: Stay ready for volatility triggered by renewables, outages or weather. 

We’ll cover: 

• Load and renewable forecasts 

• Historic weather scenario discussion based on analog year comparisons 

• Power unit/transmission new build and their impact on grid topology 

• New ISO policies that could impact summer operations 

• Transmission outage discussion 

• Price/heat rate forecast