AscendMI™ Market Forecasts are bankable power market forecasts designed to reflect the new market dynamics associated with the energy transition to renewables and storage. Ascend provides 20+ year forecasts for day-ahead and real-time power prices for major trading hubs, ancillary services prices, and capacity prices, as well as nodal basis forecasts for every major market. Ascend's forecasts are widely relied on by developers, offtakers, utilities, and financiers in the renewable and storage sectors across the US to support critical investment decisions.

Market forecasts for the energy transition

In a future dominated by renewables and storage, market dynamics that determine value will change dramatically. AscendMI™market forecasts capture changes in price volatility, curtailment, real-time market dynamics, and ancilliary services markets.

Why choose Ascend Market Intelligence?

Decisions on long-lived physical assets is risky. Utilities, developers, and financiers need deep insight to manage risk while also getting deals done.

Being grounded in best expectations of future policy and stakeholder demand, rather than the unrealistic scenario of 'status quo'
Renewable curtailment and price volatility models that are calibrated to actual observed conditions in markets rather than weather-normalized and over-optimized dispatch that is not reflective of real market operations.
Weather driven simulation of power prices that capture the critical correlations between prices, volatility, load, and renewable generation.

Insight into geospatial dynamics and evolving basis and curtailment risk driven by renewables, accounting for the cost of land and economic equilibrium as critical factors for basis evolution.
Alignment to markets in the near-term and long-run economic equilibrium in the long-term preventing sustained out-of-market returns.
Seamless integration into the PowerSIMM and BatterySIMM platforms.

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