Western hydroclimate shifts & EDAM design amplify volatility and basis risk. Learn strategies for market participation & storage deployment.

The co-evolution of hydroclimate variability and EIM/EDAM market design is propagating volatility, basis, congestion, and transactability risk through the Western grid, fundamentally altering planning, trading, and investment decisions. This webinar will guide utilities, asset owners, and counterparties on market participation, storage deployment, and financial structuring that enable participants to navigate and control risk under these new conditions.

Attendees will learn:

• Why hydropower flexibility must be treated as conditionally available and risk-weighted rather than a firm planning resource
• How EIM and EDAM connect markets while simultaneously amplifying exposure to diverging regional hydrologic regimes
• How energy trading strategies, PPA structures, financial instruments, and spot-market participation are adapting to changing transactability constraints and volatility
• How the role of utility-scale storage is evolving from energy arbitrage toward system-level shock adsorption, congestion management, and interface risk mitigation