As the market paradigm shifts from energy transition into an “all-of-the-above” push to serve massive load growth, forecasting solutions must increasingly reflect the realities of a more constrained and operationally complex power grid. Flexible or price-responsive load, emerging new load center locations, and price-setting high-penetration storage all amplify the complexities in reflecting both today's and tomorrow's market realities.

Ascend’s Opportunity Cost Forecasting Framework (OCFF) has delivered bankable market forecasts by capturing the structural shift from thermal-based price setting to weather-driven dynamics in increasingly renewable markets while reflecting the gravitational pull of long-term economic equilibrium.  

In this webinar, Ascend Analytics will walk through how Ascend is enhancing its Opportunity Cost Forecasting Framework through the integration of additional power flow modeling capabilities designed to preserve flexibility, economic reasoning, and analytical rigor while enhancing transparency and better reflecting evolving grid and operational realities.

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Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the power industry.

The company’s offerings enable decision makers in power development and supply procurement to maximize the value of planning, operating, and managing risk for renewable, storage, and other assets. From real-time to 30-year horizons, their forecasts and insights are at the foundation of over $50 billion in project financing assessments.

Ascend provides energy market stakeholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.