Tom Bausemer

Chief Operating Officer

As our Chief Operating Officer, Tom Bausemer leads the ESAI Power practice, focusing on the New England, New York, and PJM and Midcontinent power markets. Tom brings over 25 years of experience in the information and commodity trading markets. Prior to joining ESAI Power, Tom spent 4 years as CRO at FastMarkets RISI, and also held senior management roles in consulting and business development at Forrester Research during his 11-year tenure.

Tom graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a BA in Journalism.

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Recent Posts by Tom Bausemer

Capacity Watch Blog

MISO PRA Scheduled to start April 18th | Capacity Watch Blog

ESAI brings 20 years of experience analyzing and forecasting the Capacity Markets in PJM, ISO-NE and NYISO, into our new Capacity coverage of MISO. ESAI also maintains a MISO Energy Asset Database (Delivered to subscribers in excel) that tracks the MISO Interconnection queue to forecast Renewables Additions that produces a Probability Weighted Renewable Additions forecast, any Fossil Additions, and also any plant Retirements or forecasting plants at risk of retirement. 
Platts 2023

Platts Global Power Markets™ Conference April 17-19, 2023

The Platts Global Power Markets™ Conference connects the power industry at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, from April 17-19. Schedule a meeting with our ESAI Team at the conference to learn how we can help you make better investment decisions. Our Tom Bausemer and Brian Doyle will be attending the event and if you are interested in meeting up with them to discuss our wholesale power market research reports, please fill out the form to the right.
Congestion Watch Blog

RGGI Auction 59 – Clearing Price of $12.50/ton | Emissions Watch Blog

The most recent RGGI quarterly auction (Auction 59) was held on March 8, 2023. The clearing price was $12.50/ton, 3.8% lower than the clearing price of $12.99/ton on December 7, 2022 (see Figure 1). Auction 59 represents the third consecutive auction with a clearing price at least three percent lower than the previous auction. The trend of lower clearing prices in recent auctions is notable given that clearing prices had increased in 12 consecutive auctions from September 2019 through June 2022.
Capacity Watch Blog

ISO-NE FCA17 Auction Dynamics and Capacity Price Forecast | Capacity Watch Blog

In ESAI’s latest Capacity Watch report, we analyze the ISO-NE FCA17, Forward Capacity Auction. ESAI's coverage includes auction parameters, qualified capacity, and expected auction dynamics. These are all detailed in our Capacity Watch report.
Congestion Watch Blog

PM2.5 and NAAQS Update | Emissions Watch Blog

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule to strengthen the primary (health-based) annual National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particle pollution, PM2.5. Specifically, the EPA is proposing to revise the primary annual standard from 12.0 µg/m3 to a value within the range of 9.0 and 10.0 µg/m3.
Renewables Watch Blog

FERC Approved PJM Queue Reform Proposal | Renewables Watch Blog

FERC Approved PJM’s Queue Reform Proposal. These reforms are intended to address the significant backlog of generation projects with queue positions awaiting ISAs or WMPAs. With this approval, PJM will process New Service Requests under a “first-ready, first-served” approach going forward rather than its current “first-come, first-served” approach.