Bankable Power & Storage Valuations that Reduce Risk & Accelerate Development
In today’s volatile energy markets, inaccurate valuations lead to stalled financing and missed opportunities. Ascend Analytics delivers defensible, market-aligned insights that advance projects and enable confident decisions from early-stage development through close.
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300+ GW
Project Valuation Assessments Underpinned
50,000+
U.S. Nodes Modeled for Pricing Dynamics and Project Revenue
100+
Project Financings and M&A Transactions
Keys to Accurate Asset Valuation
Give lenders, investment committees, and regulators confidence in your project with defensible valuations that are calibrated against real-world operational outcomes.
Economically Realistic Price Forecasting
- Treats weather as the primary price input
- Leverages Ascend's EOCFF, which combines the best parts of production cost modeling and economically rational forecasting
- Captures volatility, basis, and congestion risk that other models miss
Calibrated to Actual Dispatch
- Benchmarked against real-world SmartBidder dispatch data
- Ensures assumptions align with how assets actually perform
Physical Hedging Modeling
- Models the physical hedging of assets to maximize revenues beyond just real-time arbitrage
- Helps developers understand the true profit potential of an asset
Nodal sub-hourly forecasts
- Valuations produced at the specific node, hub, or settlement point for each project
- Captures congestion and basis risk
Accurate, Defensible Valuations Across Every Asset Class
Accurate revenue forecasts and asset valuations are foundational to sound investment decisions, competitive bids, and defensible resource plans. Ascend's power and storage project valuation capability produces nodal-level, dispatch-optimized valuations across solar, storage, wind, hybrid, distributed, and thermal assets in any U.S. market.
Enhanced Opportunity Cost Forecasting Framework
Ascend’s proprietary framework combines the best aspects of multiple modeling approaches to holistically capture near-term and long-term dynamics
Enhanced Opportunity Cost Forecasting Framework
Ascend’s proprietary framework combines the best aspects of multiple modeling approaches to holistically capture near-term and long-term dynamics
30+ Year Nodal Price Forecasts
Day-ahead and real-time energy, ancillary services, capacity, REC prices, and nodal basis for every U.S. node
30+ Year Nodal Price Forecasts
Day-ahead and real-time energy, ancillary services, capacity, REC prices, and nodal basis for every U.S. node
Comprehensive Dispatch Simulation
Optimized simulations that respect physical constraints: cycling limits, round-trip efficiency, degradation, and augmentation schedules
Comprehensive Dispatch Simulation
Optimized simulations that respect physical constraints: cycling limits, round-trip efficiency, degradation, and augmentation schedules
Geospatial Siting and Screening
Investment maps quantify project value potential at every U.S. node
Geospatial Siting and Screening
Investment maps quantify project value potential at every U.S. node
Stacked Revenue Modeling
Energy, capacity, ancillary services, RECs, and retail rates modeled simultaneously under merchant, contracted, and hybrid financial structures
Stacked Revenue Modeling
Energy, capacity, ancillary services, RECs, and retail rates modeled simultaneously under merchant, contracted, and hybrid financial structures
Retail Rate and Distributed Resource Forecasts
Supports community solar, behind-the-meter storage, Virtual Power Plants, and FERC 2222 aggregated portfolio development
Retail Rate and Distributed Resource Forecasts
Supports community solar, behind-the-meter storage, Virtual Power Plants, and FERC 2222 aggregated portfolio development
DER Compensation Program Support
Specific 25-year outlooks for distributed energy compensation programs in New York and Illinois, incorporating dispatch optimization for all applicable value stack, cost, and program components
DER Compensation Program Support
Specific 25-year outlooks for distributed energy compensation programs in New York and Illinois, incorporating dispatch optimization for all applicable value stack, cost, and program components
Custom Visualizations
Enables users to forecast revenue stacks, visualize the impact of market sensitivities, asset constraints, and ISO operating rules
Custom Visualizations
Enables users to forecast revenue stacks, visualize the impact of market sensitivities, asset constraints, and ISO operating rules
Bankability
Ascend's power and storage project valuations are recognized by lenders across major US power markets, underpinning more than $50 billion in project financing assessments
Breadth
Financial institutions, private equity firms, hedge firms, and asset managers rely on Ascend valuations for defensible project financing and M&A decisions across a wide range of resource types
Efficiency
Developers can optimize assets from valuation through final transaction with included access to Ascend Energy Exchange
Granularity
Valuations incorporate multiple layers of geospatial and market data, including interconnection queue status, transmission constraints, and capture rates to reflect value drivers at each location
Continuity
Ascend's integrated product suite supports every stage of the asset lifecycle, from strategy and siting through valuation, financing, and operations, in a single connected workflow
Power and Storage Project Valuation: The Ascend Advantage
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Across the project lifecycle, accurate valuations unlock capital, reduce risk, and sharpen competitive positioning.
Optimize siting and size projects for maximum revenue across all asset classes; evaluate multiple PPA scenarios, terms, and tenors to produce bankable, lender-ready valuations
Optimize siting and size projects for maximum revenue across all asset classes; evaluate multiple PPA scenarios, terms, and tenors to produce bankable, lender-ready valuations
Assess individual asset and portfolio values at nodal level; determine risk/return tradeoffs of alternative commercial offtake structures across ISOs
Assess individual asset and portfolio values at nodal level; determine risk/return tradeoffs of alternative commercial offtake structures across ISOs
Evaluate build, buy, or contract decisions with independent valuations; Support RFP design and bid evaluation with forecasts that hold up under regulatory scrutiny
Evaluate build, buy, or contract decisions with independent valuations; Support RFP design and bid evaluation with forecasts that hold up under regulatory scrutiny
Maximize PPA value through independent counterparty project valuation; link facility siting and data center energy strategy to long-term nodal price and emissions outlooks
Maximize PPA value through independent counterparty project valuation; link facility siting and data center energy strategy to long-term nodal price and emissions outlooks
Receive independent market assessments of future project revenues, benchmarked to actual operations, that include nodal-specific project values incorporating supply, demand, transmission, and long-run policy expectations
Receive independent market assessments of future project revenues, benchmarked to actual operations, that include nodal-specific project values incorporating supply, demand, transmission, and long-run policy expectations
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