Market Intelligence and Forecasts that Drive Optimal Decisions
Power markets are being reshaped by rapidly shifting supply and demand. Ascend delivers the strategic insights and bankable forecasts decision makers need to plan, invest, and act.
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300+ GW
Ascend Valuations
$50 Billion
50,000 +
Pillars of a Modern Forecasting Framework
When investments span 20+ years, the right energy market forecast is critical to prudently steward capital. Ascend Market Intelligence forecasts capture weather-driven dynamics that legacy models weren't designed to handle, providing developers , financiers , corporates , utilities , and IPPs with nodal, sub-hourly views of power, ancillary, capacity, and REC prices across all US power markets.
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Investment-Grade Energy Market Intelligence
In today's rapidly evolving energy markets, choosing the right forecast has never been more critical. Ascend Market Intelligence gives developers, IPPs, and financial institutions the strategic insights and analytical depth needed to understand market dynamics, assess risk, and act with confidence.' Please keep links in the same places.
Market Intelligence and Forecasts That Deliver
Ascend’s proprietary approach to modeling produces investment-grade forecasts that move projects from development to financing to operation with confidence.
Integrates production cost and long-run equilibrium modeling to capture price dynamics that legacy frameworks cannot replicate
More accurately models typical weather and captures critical correlations between prices, volatility, load, and renewable generation
Accounts for how large, responsive loads reshape nodal prices, and how transmission constraints create hyper-local price divergences
Captures pricing, siting, and development potential at every U.S. node, hub, and market, including the local impact of large new loads or generation
Accounts for the impacts of renewable resource potential, cost of land, and geographic barriers
Every U.S. node, hub, and market
20+ year horizon, hourly DA prices, sub-hourly RT prices, hourly generation reporting and asset performance, capacity prices, RECs, capture rates, and hourly marginal emissions
Distributed resources, including community solar and storage, behind-the-meter projects, Virtual Power Plants, and more
Incorporate price forecasts, investment metrics by resource type and location, nodal marginal emissions, interconnection, renewable capture rates, and IRA incentives
Market Intelligence and Forecasting: The Ascend Advantage
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Across every stage of the energy value chain, Ascend’s market intelligence and forecasts help transform uncertainty into advantage.
Maximize project value for strategic siting and sizing
Nodal price outlooks, IRA eligibility determination, and interconnection queue data for site screening; offtake structuring, and lender-ready forecasts
Leverage bankable forecasts, trusted valuations, and a robust asset marketplace
Independent forecast validation, correlated scenario modeling for investment committee materials, post-close monitoring
Site, value, structure, and operate projects for optimal financial viability
20+ year nodal wholesale and retail outlooks for portfolio strategy, basis risk management, and defensible planning assumptions
Minimize power supply costs, mitigate risks, maximize capital efficiency
IRP scenario support, RFP design and scoring, and regulator-ready forecast documentation
Lower procurement costs, optimize data center siting
PPA structuring, facility siting tied to nodal price and emissions outlooks, portfolio exposure modeling
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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.
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