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North American wholesale power markets were shaped this week less by the coasts than by a heat dome parked over the central United States and the Desert Southwest, and by the emergency and market-design responses it provoked. The most striking action came on July 26, when the U.S. Department of Energy invoked Federal Power Act Section 202(c) to issue an emergency order authorizing the Southwest Power Pool to dispatch specified units and tap backup and behind-the-meter generation ahead of a Level 3 energy emergency, an order that runs through August 3. Arizona utilities that transact through the Western Energy Imbalance Market set all-time peak-demand records on July 25 as Phoenix reached 117 degrees, with Salt River Project peaking near 9,072 MW and Arizona Public Service near 9,053 MW. ERCOT, meanwhile, moved through a record weekly-average load without issuing conservation appeals, helped by record solar output and heavy battery discharge, while California and the Northeast saw comparatively ordinary conditions as the most acute heat stayed inland.

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