Portfolio & Risk Management

Connect Market Dynamics to Portfolio Performance

Ascend’s deep bench of experts and advanced analytics solutions help organizations track portfolio costs, strengthen hedging strategies, and identify opportunities to improve performance in increasingly complex power markets.
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Manage Risk with Confidence
  • Analyze revenue variability across your portfolio
  • Evaluate operating and hedging strategies
  • Balance financial objectives with portfolio risk
Extend Your Team
  • Augment internal resources with experienced advisors
  • Access specialized expertise when you need it most
  • Gain independent perspectives to support critical decisions
Improve Decision-Making
  • Make more informed asset, contract, and pricing decisions
  • Leverage expert quantitative analysis and market insights
  • Gain confidence through advanced modeling and analytics
Strengthen Analytics Capabilities
  • Benchmark and strengthen existing processes
  • Accelerate internal analytics maturity
  • Improve performance with practical, expert guidance

Analytics and Expertise for Better Portfolio Outcomes

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Case Studies

Transmission-Constrained MUNI Retains Ascend to Develop Integrated Resource Plan Targeting 100% Clean Energy

Glendale Water & Power (GWP), a not-for-profit municipal utility with a peak load of 350 MW nine miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, selected Ascend Analytics to develop an integrated resource plan (IRP).

Case Studies

Ascend Analytics Helps Austin Energy Gain Approval for 2035 Resource Plan

As one of the largest public power utilities in the United States and the second largest municipally owned utility within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) footprint, Austin Energy delivers electricity and other utility services to more than 550,000 customers within the City of Austin and its surrounding community.

Publications

Retail Rates, Load Growth, and the Rising Value of Demand-Side Solutions

This publication is the fifth and final in a series from Ascend Analytics that considers the implications of rapid load growth on U.S. capacity markets, high capacity prices as the new normal, the risks that new realities create for business-as-usual strategies, and the opportunities that this paradigm shift enables for well-planned new entry resources.

Articles

How Should Power Market Forecasting Adapt to an Increasingly Complex Grid?

Learn how evolving power market complexity demands new forecasting approaches, and why Ascend Analytics developed the Enhanced Opportunity Cost Forecasting Framework to meet the challenges of the data center era.