CEO Mike DeSocio and COO Ray Stalter trace twenty-five years of New York’s competitive markets and examine the growing gap between what prices signal and what reliability planning says the system needs.

In this Luminary Energy Spotlight, Chief Development Officer Jennifer Kearney sits down with Director of Data Analytics Eve Marenghi to talk about the role data plays in understanding an increasingly complex energy landscape. Eve shares her path into energy and data analytics, the perspective she brings to Luminary, and how the team turns complex market data into practical insights for clients. The conversation explores how analytics can help make sense of evolving wholesale electricity markets, the importance of translating data into actionable information, and Eve’s approach to solving challenging problems at the intersection of energy, markets, and technology.

CEO Mike DeSocio and COO Ray Stalter analyze the findings and recommendations of the NYISO's Q2 STAR Report and the wider implications for reliability across the grid.

CEO Mike DeSocio and COO Ray Stalter recap the recent NYISO and ISO-NE annual meetings, sharing their overall impressions and discussing the grid reliability and capacity market reforms emerging across New York and New England.

In this Luminary Energy Spotlight, Chief Development Officer Jennifer Kearney sits down with Founder and CEO Mike DeSocio to talk through the experience and perspective behind the firm. Mike shares what 23 years at the NYISO taught him about how wholesale power markets actually work, why he started Luminary, and how the team has grown to serve generators, LSEs, and capacity market participants across NYISO and ISO-NE. The conversation gets into Mike's philosophy on the energy transition and what he wants clients to experience working with Luminary.

Welcome to the first episode of Drop the Mic. Founder and CEO Mike DeSocio and COO Ray Stalter kick off Luminary Energy's new podcast with a look at the NYISO topics shaping the rest of 2026. They share what listeners can expect from the series and dig into current capacity market dynamics, takeaways from the latest STAR report, and where they see policy and market design heading over the next one to two years.