Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-07
NYISO, Measured Instead of Marketed
Independent research tests power-market trading, risk, battery storage, and grid-security claims against six months of real NYISO data.
Why it surfacedThis is unusually substantive energy-market research: 47,773 zone-hours across all 11 NYISO load zones, five additional model families, and explicit checks against ground truth. Its conclusions are more interesting for being unglamorous—the modeled trading strategies lose money after a representative $0.30/MWh fee, while battery value depends heavily on duration.
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A File Musicians Can Argue With
August 7’s newborn domains include editable orchestral scores with up to 33 staves, 15 years of Valencia council interventions, a dementia-friendly frame with one optional button, and a memorial golf tournament whose winner wears the Meatball Jacket.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-07 Domain Arrivals issue.