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May 13, 2025
Rich Heidorn Jr.
Editor-in-Chief & Publisher
Rich is a former reporter and editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he began covering the electric industry as Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware introduced competition in the late 1990s. His coverage won the National Press Foundation’s 1998 award for energy reporting. He later headed a Houston-based startup that produced hourly power indexes and worked as an energy analyst for Bloomberg Government. In between, he worked for eight years in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Enforcement, where he became a whistleblower — proving he was not cut out for government work. He holds a journalism degree from Penn State University and an MBA from Temple University.

Recent Articles
IESO Opens Day-ahead Market in Nodal Rollout
IESO continued a smooth rollout of Ontario's nodal market, launching a financially binding day-ahead market.
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IESO Nodal Market Launch Successful
Ontario's IESO successfully launched its nodal market on May 1, reporting few glitches during its rollout.
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IESO Tweaks Modeling for Outage Management
IESO is changing how it projects renewable generation output and its accounting for imports and planned loads in the forecasts it uses to manage generator and transmission outages.
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Ontario Introducing Nodal Market May 1
IESO is scheduled to launch its new nodal market May 1, a change it says will save Ontario $700 million over the next decade through reduced out-of-market payments and increased efficiency.
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What to Know About IESO
IESO has 37.2 GW of installed capacity and 18,640 miles of transmission, both ranked seventh among the nine organized markets in the U.S. and Canada.
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