Primary Sources We Use

EIA datasets are the primary backbone for public U.S. energy benchmarks. Forecast series are labeled separately from reported historical data.

• - Commercial and industrial electricity benchmarks
• - Natural gas price and consumption datasets
• - Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts

Today in Energy articles should be cited with publication date, source note, and whether a claim is EIA analysis, third-party data referenced by EIA, or KilowattLogic interpretation.

• - Current EIA analysis of energy prices, supply disruptions, exports, and market context
• - Narrative source backing for source-reported facts that are not exposed as simple API values
• - Federal context for procurement-risk analysis and article updates

Use this source for the May 11, 2026 EIA record-production update. Separate EIA-reported production facts from KilowattLogic interpretation of delivered-rate, capacity, basis, and utility-charge implications.

• - 2025 U.S. primary energy production record context
• - Dry natural gas, crude oil, NGPL, renewable, and coal production facts
• - Supply-side context for commercial electricity and natural gas procurement coverage

Use this source for the May 5, 2026 EIA Virginia data-center article. Separate reported historical sales and peak-load values from PJM forecast values and KilowattLogic buyer interpretation.

• - Virginia commercial electricity sales growth from 2019 through 2025
• - Dominion zone peak-load history and PJM forecast context
• - Data-center load-growth analysis for Northern Virginia procurement coverage

Use this source for the May 13, 2026 EIA ERCOT solar-versus-coal forecast. Keep EIA forecast generation values separate from delivered commercial rate claims, supplier offers, congestion costs, and KilowattLogic procurement interpretation.

• - ERCOT utility-scale solar and coal generation forecasts for 2026 and 2027
• - ERCOT generation mix context for solar, coal, and natural gas
• - Texas commercial electricity buyer analysis of generation mix, large-load growth, and hourly risk

Use this source for May 2026 public benchmark updates. Keep EIA forecast values separate from live NYMEX settlements, delivered-basis quotes, supplier offers, and KilowattLogic procurement interpretation.

• - Henry Hub 2026 and 2027 public benchmark forecasts
• - Lower 48 marketed natural gas production and storage-balance context
• - U.S. LNG export forecast and global LNG/Hormuz context

Use this source for the May 15, 2026 EIA industrial natural gas demand update. Keep EIA forecast consumption values separate from supplier offers, fixed-price advice, CHP economics, and KilowattLogic procurement interpretation.

• - U.S. industrial natural gas consumption forecasts for 2026 and 2027
• - Manufacturing and chemicals-sector natural gas procurement context
• - Industrial seasonal load-shape and efficiency caveats

Values are reported by month and should be cited with the reporting period and release context.

• - Average commercial revenue per kilowatthour by state
• - Average industrial revenue per kilowatthour by state
• - National and state electricity benchmark comparisons

Storage reports should be cited with the week-ending date and release date.

• - Working gas in underground storage
• - Weekly injection and withdrawal changes
• - Storage comparisons against prior year and five-year average

EIA released this weekly storage report on May 7, 2026 at 10:30 a.m.; values should be cited as week ending May 1, 2026.

• - Lower 48 working gas for week ending May 1, 2026
• - May 7, 2026 weekly injection and regional storage changes
• - Storage comparisons against prior year and five-year average

EIA released this weekly storage report on May 14, 2026 at 10:30 a.m.; values should be cited as week ending May 8, 2026.

• - Lower 48 working gas for week ending May 8, 2026
• - May 14, 2026 weekly injection and regional storage changes
• - Storage comparisons against prior year and five-year average

PJM usage and redistribution terms should be checked before reproducing raw Data Miner output.

• - PJM market reports and operating data
• - Capacity-market context
• - Public wholesale market datasets

Capacity values should be tied to the delivery year, auction type, report date, and whether the value is a final clearing price or pre-auction planning parameter.

• - PJM capacity auction clearing-price context
• - Delivery-year capacity-market schedules and supporting files
• - Capacity-cost exposure in PJM procurement coverage

ERCOT API and data-access routes should be cited by report name, delivery channel, and retrieval date where practical.

• - ERCOT public market reports
• - Texas large-load and settlement-price context
• - Market transparency datasets

NYISO data should be tied to the relevant market, zone, date, and report surface.

• - New York wholesale market context
• - LBMP and load-related market reporting
• - Installed capacity and system-condition context

Preliminary and final market values should be labeled distinctly when that distinction matters.

• - New England LMP and load data
• - Wholesale cost and ancillary-service context
• - Winter reliability and market reform reporting

CAISO OASIS provides real-time and market-result data; pages should identify the report or market interval used.

• - California wholesale market prices
• - System demand and transmission context
• - CAISO market-result reporting

EDAM participation and benefit claims should distinguish official launch/participant status from future rate-case pass-through analysis.

• - Western day-ahead market launch and participant status
• - EDAM report availability, reliability-capacity metrics, and transfer context
• - Western market-design coverage for commercial buyers

MISO market-report values should be linked to the applicable market report, auction period, or planning case.

• - MISO market report data
• - Planning Resource Auction context
• - Midwest capacity and reliability reporting

MISO PRA values should preserve season, local resource zone, annualized framing, and posting date.

• - MISO seasonal and annualized capacity prices
• - Resource adequacy and local resource zone capacity context
• - Midwest capacity-cost mitigation coverage

Use this outlook for May 2026 seasonal reliability facts. Treat adequate-resources language as PJM reliability planning context, not as a retail price forecast or delivered-rate guarantee.

• - PJM summer 2026 peak-load forecast
• - Source-reported generation capacity and contracted demand-response values
• - Seasonal reliability and load-management planning context

FERC claims should cite the order, docket, filing, or notice when available.

• - Federal energy orders and rulemakings
• - Capacity-market and transmission-policy actions
• - Regulatory enforcement and market-design context