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Since August 1, a California deletion request has been a standing instruction rather than a one-time message: brokers must keep deleting every 45 days, and the bar on selling you again has fewer ways out than the duty to delete.
PJM's own auction reports, read in one column: the price of scarcity climbed toward its ceiling while the new generation it bought fell to a few hundred megawatts, and PJM has asked FERC to stop counting some of the demand behind that climb.
A Fifth Circuit ruling on one appliance rule turns on a mandatory off-switch DOE never pulled: one of nine standards set the same way, with DOE's own reasoning laid out across two documents.
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