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The Ascend Product Ecosystem addresses the needs of decision makers across the entire power supply and procurement spectrum with differentiated insights, data, and software to maximize value from project inception to operations.
Ascend Analytics empowers utilities and community choice aggregators to minimize power supply costs, mitigate risks, and achieve sustainability objectives by leveraging our platform capabilities that include:
PowerSIMM co-optimization engine provides capacity expansion planning, carbon/RPS constraint modeling, reliability analysis, transmission modeling, financial analysis, DSM value determination, and more. The outcome is an optimal blend of renewable resources, capacity, and reliability - offered as either a flexible one-time service or cost-effective SaaS solution tailored to evolving client needs. When connected to AEX for power procurement, offers are automatically uploaded and evaluated with rapid and seamless turnaround.
Comprehensive asset valuation software that optimizes siting and economic valuation, maximizing all potential revenue streams. Utilizing Ascend Analytics' 20+ year nodal price forecasts, PowerSIMM assesses asset value and site economics across ISOs, incorporating geospatial analysis for locational screening.
PowerSIMM Portfolio Management solution optimizes hedging, REC balancing, and risk outcomes. The solution empowers clients to make budget-conscious decisions by considering key portfolio drivers systematically, ensuring cash flow goals are met or exceeded.
Day-ahead and real-time bid optimization and scheduling software for storage, renewable, and hybrid assets that yields up to 100% increase over traditional strategies. With SmartBidder, users can develop their own customized bid strategies leveraging AI-based models based on nodal forecasts, asset constraints, and risk-based optimization.
Pre-vetted renewable and storage projects are sold on the AEX Exchange leveraging a proven process facilitated by Ascend experts that includes detailed market analysis, project valuation, and financial modelling. Sellers attract an average of five times more bidders, resulting in competitive offers.
Full-service Power Procurement process with experienced analysts that help define procurement needs, provide valuations, administer and host the RFP process, and support project evaluation and negotiations. Ascend Analytics' process achieves up to 4 times the number of respondents through leveraging its developer network, realizing a more competitive outcome. With automated process of offers, Ascend Analytics frequently evaluates a hundred bid submissions in a week to produce a list of least cost finalists.
Commission verified and widely bankable, Ascend’s power market price forecasts reflect new market dynamics driven by the energy transition. Ascend Analytics' Market Intelligence valuations are proven to align with actual operations, offering 20+ year forecasts of sub-hourly power prices, ancillary services, capacity, REC, and nodal basis across major markets in the US and Europe.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the energy transition. 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 shareholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.
Ascend Analytics supports Merchant Operators to site, value, structure, and operate power generation projects for optimal decision making and financial viability. Our capabilities include:
PowerSIMM assesses individual assets and portfolio values and risks, enabling chief commercial officers and originators to quickly determine the risk/return tradeoff of alternative commercial off-take structures.
Industry-leading economic valuation and siting software for standalone storage and renewable+storage projects. BatterySIMM utilizes Ascend Analytics' proven 20+ year price forecasts to determine storage value and assess site economics across ISOs and includes state-of-the-art mapping that enables clients to survey and screen locations.
PowerSIMM Portfolio Management solution optimizes hedging, REC balancing, and risk outcomes for merchant power portfolios and models future cash flows from structured power sales. PowerSIMM empowers merchant operators with dynamic hedging strategies so realized cash flows equal or exceed budgeted cash flows.
EnSurance enables efficient merchant storage financing by transferring revenue tail risk to investment-grade insurance counterparties as counterparties, enabling developers to preserve project upside while insuring against downside revenue risk.
Pre-vetted renewable and storage projects are sold on the Ascend Energy Exchange (AEX) leveraging a proven process facilitated by Ascend experts that includes detailed market analysis, project valuation, and financial modelling. Sellers attract an average of five times more bidders, resulting in competitive offers.
Day-ahead and real-time bid optimization and scheduling software for storage, renewable, and hybrid assets that yields up to 100% increase over traditional strategies. With SmartBidder, users can develop their own customized bid strategies or use AI-based models based on nodal forecasts, asset constraints, and risk-based optimization.
Bankable power market forecasts reflecting new market dynamics driven by the energy transition. Ascend Analytics' Market Intelligence valuations are proven to align with actual operations, offering 20+ year forecasts of sub-hourly power prices, ancillary services, capacity, REC, and nodal basis across major markets in the US and Europe.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the energy transition. 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.
Contact UsAscend Analytics offers portfolio management to electric retailers, lowering costs and risks to serve load to uncertain power market prices and production variability from renewables.
Industry-leading PowerSIMM Portfolio Management enables electric retailers to focus on upside potential by optimizing hedge ratios and accounting for primary risk failure points, including counter-party credit risk, PFE, and cash flow/revenue forecasting.
Bankable power market forecasts reflecting new market dynamics driven by the energy transition. Ascend Analytics' Market Intelligence valuations are proven to align with actual operations, offering 20+ year forecasts for power prices, ancillary services, capacity, REC, and nodal basis across major markets in the US and Europe.
Annual and 24x7 carbon free energy (CFE) analytic insights and economic valuations that consider renewable energy credits (RECs), hourly REC/emissions offsets, and capacity, enabling users to realize a least cost supply portfolio with minimized risk and forward-looking value of energy.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the energy transition. 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 shareholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.
Contact UsAscend Analytics supports project investment for both equity and debt by providing independent project valuations, insuring revenue, operating power assets, and providing a marketplace for asset transactions. Ascend has supported hundreds of project financings for infrastructure funds, private equity, tax equity, and banks, buttressing these forecasts with actual operating results of SmartBidder that have consistently exceeded our forecast values. Investors and banks leverage Ascend's capabilities including:
Independent market assessments of future project revenues that benchmark conservatively to actual operations (from Ascend's' SmartBidder). Ascend's PowerSIMM forecasts nodal specific project values that blend system fundamentals of supply, demand, and transmission with future policy expectations all bound by long-run equilibrium conditions of new unit entry.
Industry-leading economic valuation and siting software for standalone storage and renewable+storage projects. BatterySIMM utilizes Ascend Analytics' proven 20+ year price forecasts to determine storage and renewable project values and assess site economics across ISOs and includes state-of-the-art mapping that enables quick survey of locational value and site screening.
Bankable power market forecasts reflecting new market dynamics driven by the energy transition. Ascends’ Market Intelligence valuations are proven to align with actual operations, offering 20+ year forecasts for power prices, ancillary services, capacity, REC, and nodal basis across major markets in the US and Europe.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the energy transition. 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 shareholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.
Contact UsAscend Analytics provides developers with the insights to maximize project values for strategic siting and sizing, power market outlooks, asset valuations, and origination, buttressing these forecasts with actual operating results of SmartBidder that have consistently exceeded our forecast values. Developers leverage Ascends’ capabilities to provide:
Comprehensive asset valuation software that optimizes siting and economic valuation, maximizing all potential revenue streams. Utilizing Ascend Analytics' 20+ year price forecasts, PowerSIMM assesses asset value and site economics across power markets in US and Europe, incorporating geospatial analysis for location screening.
Industry-leading economic valuation and siting software for standalone storage and renewable+storage projects. BatterySIMM utilizes Ascend Analytics' proven 20+ year price forecasts to determine storage value and assess site economics across ISOs and includes state-of-the-art mapping that enables clients to survey and screen locations.
Day-ahead and real-time bid optimization and scheduling software for storage, renewable, and hybrid assets that yields up to 100% increase over traditional strategies. With SmartBidder, users can develop their own customized bid strategies or use AI-based models based on nodal forecasts, asset constraints, and risk-based optimization.
Bankable power market forecasts reflecting new market dynamics driven by the energy transition. Ascends’ Market Intelligence valuations are proven to align with actual operations, offering 20+ year forecasts for power prices, ancillary services, capacity, REC, and nodal basis across major markets in the US and Europe.
The AEX Exchange offers the most competitive asset sale process for project developers and owner-operators in part because of Ascends’ trusted analytics and neutrality that serves buyers and sellers. Developers experience significantly reduced transaction costs and up to 4x more bidders than traditional processes.
EnSurance enables efficient merchant storage financing by transferring revenue risk to investment-grade counterparties, empowering developers to bring large battery storage systems online faster and with greater returns.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the energy transition. 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 shareholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.
Contact UsAscend Analytics provides corporates with a competitive edge to lower the costs and risks of clean power procurement on our Ascend Energy Exchange (AEX). We realize these results through leveraging our network of developers to run highly competitive procurements and through applying our analytic lens to maximize the long-term value of these irreversible purchase commitments. Corporates leverage Ascends’ capabilities Including:
Providing a full range of clean energy procurement services including RFO development and administration, bid acceptance, bid valuation using PowerSIMM, and bid ranking using quantitative and qualitative factors to ensure corporations build the highest-value clean energy portfolio that meets their sustainability goals.
PowerSIMM provides a comprehensive RFO process that includes the valuation of all bids in order to understand the full range of costs and benefits for each bid.
Ascend Analytics' PowerSIMM portfolio management provides a comprehensive view of a corporations' clean energy portfolio to provide a holistic view of PPA costs, revenues and environmental benefits.
In the context of power procurement process, Ascend Analytics' Market Intelligence uses energy price forecasts that reflect the new market dynamics driven by the energy transition in the comprehensive valuation process for all bids received.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the energy transition. 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 shareholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.
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