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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-07

NYISO, Measured Instead of Marketed

powerenergyquant.com ↗ · Global Trade Desk · score 86.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

Independent research tests power-market trading, risk, battery storage, and grid-security claims against six months of real NYISO data.

Why it surfaced

This 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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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-07 Domain Arrivals issue.