Control Costs, Confidently Manage Risks, and Optimize Power Portfolios

Power supply planning, generation procurement, and market participation have never been more complex. Ascend’s unified suite of powerful software and market intelligence ensures confident decisions from planning to procurement to operations.

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120+ GW

Power Procured on Behalf of Ascend Customers

5x Faster

Faster IRP to RFP

40 %

More Precision in Asset Revenue Forecasting

Trusted by Utilities, CCAs and Retail Energy Providers

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Ascend Analytics Helps Austin Energy Gain Approval for 2035 Resource Plan

“Another advantage with Ascend is the ability to generate a range of expected outcomes instead of a single data point.”

Austin Energy's Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2035
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Capture Opportunity and Manage Risk in Today’s Power Markets

Ascend helps investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, co-ops, CCAs, and retail energy providers plan, procure, and optimize energy portfolios with confidence.​

Manage Risk in Dynamic Energy Markets
Measure and manage risk in portfolios with both renewables and gas
Reduce overall portfolio risk while pursuing clean energy goals
Create confident IRP scenarios for long-term planning and capacity expansion

Manage Risk in Dynamic Energy Markets

Navigate Load Growth Demands
Create clear pathways to bring new energy resources online faster
Plan and prepare for rapid load growth from data centers
Identify and evaluate energy project investments given multiple constraints

Navigate Load Growth Demands

Steward Capital Investments
Quantify the risk reduction of different resources added to your supply mix
Compare the value of storage to gas or other capacity resources
Understand the long-term financial value of a potential resource  addition

Steward Capital Investments

Meet Clean Energy Goals
Understand how to keep customer rates affordable while adding clean energy
Determine optimal approaches to full or partial decarbonization
Identify opportunities for leveraging clean energy tax credits

Meet Clean Energy Goals

How Ascend Helps

Ascend’s scalable software solutions and expert consulting services support confident rate setting, simplify complex decisions, and mitigate risk.

Investor-Owned
Muni and Co-Ops
CCAs
Retail Energy
For Investor-Owned Utilities

Confidently optimize capital efficiency, satisfy regulatory oversight, and maximize risk-adjusted returns while delivering affordability and reliability for customers.

Ascend Analytics Helps IOUs
Evaluate long-term returns and risks of large-scale grid upgrades
Minimize power supply costs, stabilize ratepayer costs, mitigate risk, and achieve clean energy objectives
Expand capacity quickly while maintaining reliability and minimizing rate impacts
Transition from fossil fuels while maintaining reliability, at minimum cost and complexity
Automate processes to eliminate manual data transfers and connect internal teams with a common source of truth
For Co-Ops and Municipalities

Maximize capital resources and reduce exposure to price volatility while keeping public stakeholders engaged and informed.

Ascend Analytics Helps Co-Ops and Municipalities
Maximize limited access to capital and ensure good stewardship of member contributions and loans
Evaluate how best to balance aging infrastructure with modernization and new investment
Equip staff with technology to automate processes, protect against knowledge loss,  and connect internal teams with a common data source
Serve an invested and informed customer base in a rapidly changing power landscape
Confidently present complex and technical solutions to Boards and members
For Community Choice Aggregators

Accelerate clean energy commitments and optimize procurement portfolios under policy and market uncertainty.

Ascend Analytics Helps CCAs
Hedge against market volatility in wholesale energy prices when procuring power
Minimize rising rates and retain customers in energy markets with load growth and increasing renewables
Model multiple scenarios that account for incumbent utility infrastructure
Model policy uncertainty in long-term planning
For Retail Energy Providers

Reduce costs and risks to serving load while responding dynamically to volatile power market prices and production variability from renewables.

Ascend Analytics Helps Retail Energy Providers
Maximize operational profitability in volatile markets
Effectively hedge against cost spikes in the wholesale markets
Account for complex regulatory compliance in long-range plans
Control costs in markets where weather plays a primary role in energy price formation
Execute a resource planning process with limited resources

A Unified Product Ecosystem that Powers Planning through Performance

Confidently plan, procure, and operate energy portfolios while managing risk with Ascend's unified ecosystem of software, intelligence, and consulting solutions.

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Strategy, Research & Analysis
Planning
Valuation, Siting & Financing
Early Development
Asset Transactions & PPAs
Advanced Development
Bidding, Dispatch & Scheduling
Operations
Portfolio & Risk Management
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Thermal Generation: The Importance of Maximizing Flexibility and Availability in the Coming Era of High Capacity Prices and Low Energy Prices

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