Site and Value Power Projects With One Platform
Market Opportunity to Transaction in One Platform
Discover Opportunities
Identify where and how to invest using advanced siting, sizing, and market opportunity analysis.
Forecast Market Value
Model long-term wholesale market prices and retail electricity rates with operationally validated forecasts.
Evaluate Investments
Produce transparent, defensible asset and portfolio valuations that incorporate realistic market conditions.
Bring Assets to Market
Move seamlessly from valuation to transaction with AEX, included with every PowerVAL subscription.
The PowerVAL Difference:
More Value From Every Decision
From siting and sizing new projects to forecasting wholesale prices, retail rates, and long-term asset value, PowerVAL provides an integrated, comprehensive view of market opportunity.
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Anticipate and understand market shifts with bankable price, supply, and policy insights that optimize planning, investment, and performance.
Site with Speed and Confidence
Integrated siting expertise and high-fidelity interconnection analytics save time and reduce development risk before capital is deployed
Improve Forecast Accuracy Across Market Horizons
Ascend’s operationally validated wholesale market forecasts combine the best aspects of multiple models to capture both today's near-term dynamics and tomorrow's structural shifts
Understand DER Value Before You Build
Long-term retail rate forecasts reveal customer economics driving project success
Access Bankable Valuations
Transparent valuations provide a credible foundation for investment, financing, and M&A decisions
Capture the Value of Location
Granular nodal modeling reveals how congestion and transmission constraints shape project economics
Prioritize Your Highest-Value Opportunities
Consistent cross-technology valuation enables better capital allocation decisions
Gain Faster, Better M&A Transactions
Integrated AEX workflows connect valuation directly to transaction execution, supported by expert advisors and a broader buyer network to reduce friction and maximize deal outcome
Improve Decision Outcomes With Interactive Intelligence
PowerVAL customers have full access to Ascend’s rich hub of maps, visualizations, market reports, offtake opportunities, and more
Move Seamlessly from Analysis to Execution
An integrated workflow takes projects from valuation through transaction with fewer handoffs and greater efficiency, saving time and money
One Platform, Five Integrated Areas of Expertise
PowerVAL combines integrated areas of expertise to help organizations site projects, evaluate opportunities, forecast market value, optimize investments, and execute transactions with confidence.
Data Center and Power Project Siting
PowerVAL Siting’s interconnection analysis uses detailed powerflow models to allow screening of every US substation and transmission line, compressing diligence timelines and reducing time spent on projects that will never interconnect.
ISO-Aligned Power Flow Modeling
Models each ISO/RTO's own base case power flow models, buildout rules, and load conditions, using industry-standard tools to mirror each market's own interconnection study methodology.
Incremental Headroom & Contingency Analysis
Injects or withdraws power in 1 MW increments at each POI until the first constraint binds, running full-region N-1 contingency analysis to identify binding constraints for both generation injection and load withdrawal.
Upgrade Cost Estimation
Estimates the cost of network upgrades required to relieve each constraint, such as material, wiring, installation, and foundation expenses, standardized for apples-to-apples comparison across POIs and markets.
Benchmarked Accuracy
Validated against completed ISO cluster study results, with upgrade cost estimates landing within 20% of actual ISO-determined costs.
Asset Valuation
PowerVAL determines project value and optimal siting at any US node for solar, standalone storage, wind, hybrid, and thermal projects, using dispatch simulations that respect each project's physical constraints and each market's operating rules.
Physical & Dispatch Modeling
Selects operating strategies from naïve to perfect foresight, incorporating round-trip efficiencies, charging/discharging constraints, cycling limits, and degradation and augmentation schedules, with dispatch simulations that adhere to ISO market rules.
Integrated Price Forecasting
Fully integrated with AscendMI price forecasts, with the flexibility to upload sensitivities or alternative forecasts.
Proprietary Geospatial Mapping
Combines price forecasts, investment metrics by resource type and location, nodal marginal emissions, interconnection data, renewable capture rates, and IRA incentives into a single map layer.
Revenue Stack & Battery Activity Visualization
Built-in tools visualize forecasted revenue stacks and sub-hourly battery activity/SoC to compare sensitivities and daily asset dynamics.
Market Intelligence: Wholesale Markets
Wholesale forecasts are powered by AscendMI's Enhanced Opportunity Cost Forecasting Framework, which holistically combines the best aspects of multiple modeling approaches to holistically capture the near-term and long-term dynamics shaping the power markets of today – and tomorrow.
30+ Year Nodal Forecasts
For sub-hourly day-ahead and real-time power prices, capacity prices, RECs, renewable capture rates, and hourly marginal emissions at every US node, hub, and market, all powered by Ascend’s proprietary Enhanced Opportunity Cost Forecasting Framework.
Policy & Structural Sensitivities
Built-in sensitivities capture how structural and policy drivers affect market prices and project values.
Comprehensive Coverage
Forecasts account for and incorporate multiple layers of information, including cost of land, renewable resource potential, IRA energy communities, transmission infrastructure, population density, interconnection queue status, and other criteria.
Bankable, Finance-Grade Track Record
Ascend’s work underpins more than $50 billion of project valuation assessments.
Market Intelligence: Retail Rates
For distributed and behind-the-meter projects, PowerVAL forecasts transparent, component-level retail rate projections, covering community solar, VPPs, post-PPA revenue assessments, and aggregated distributed resources under FERC 2222.
Model-Driven Retail Projections
Produces model-driven retail rate projections for community solar and distributed generation revenue.
Transparent Rate-Component Breakdown
Breaks down supply, transmission, and distribution rate components and ties them to underlying wholesale drivers, risk factors, and policy.
Geospatial Locational Value Mapping
Maps pricing dynamics and revenue potential across 50,000+ U.S. nodes together with hosting capacity, interconnection queue position, parcel data, and substation/transmission locations, kept current on the Market Intelligence Hub.
DER Program Compensation Support
Specific 25-year outlooks for distributed energy compensation programs in New York and Illinois, incorporating dispatch optimization for all applicable value stack, cost, and program components.
Ascend Energy Exchange (AEX)
Included with every PowerVAL subscription, AEX connects a completed valuation directly to a transaction, closing the gap between knowing what a project is worth and actually bringing it to market.
Expert Advisory
Support from specialists who understand market dynamics, asset valuations, economic and development risks, asset operations, interconnection challenges, and commercial considerations.
Bundled at No Extra Cost
Included with every PowerVAL subscription, with no upfront listing fees and a 100% success-based model.
One Workflow, Valuation to Transaction
Optimizes an asset from first valuation through final transaction in a single, unified workflow.
Reduced Friction, Faster Deal Readiness
Aligns valuation analytics with transaction execution to reduce friction and accelerate deal readiness.
Deeper Bidder Pool
Draws on Ascend's ecosystem of buyers and sellers to engage roughly 5x the bidders of a typical sale process.
Who PowerVAL™ Helps
Across every stage of the energy value chain, PowerVAL helps developers, operators, and financiers site, value, forecast, and transact with confidence.
Developers
Site and size projects with nodal forecasts and interconnection analysis, produce bankable lender-ready valuations, and bring assets to market through AEX with no upfront marketing fees.
Developers
Site and size projects with nodal forecasts and interconnection analysis, produce bankable lender-ready valuations, and bring assets to market through AEX with no upfront marketing fees.
IPPs
Assess asset and portfolio value at the nodal level, screen sites and quantify basis risk across ISOs, and access pre-vetted acquisition opportunities through AEX.
IPPs
Assess asset and portfolio value at the nodal level, screen sites and quantify basis risk across ISOs, and access pre-vetted acquisition opportunities through AEX.
Utilities
Evaluate build, buy, or contract decisions and site new resources with regulator-ready valuations, nodal price analysis, and support RFP design and IRPs with forecasts that hold up under scrutiny.
Utilities
Evaluate build, buy, or contract decisions and site new resources with regulator-ready valuations, nodal price analysis, and support RFP design and IRPs with forecasts that hold up under scrutiny.
Corporates
Maximize PPA value with independent counterparty valuations, and evaluate data center and facility sites using transmission modeling, long-term energy cost forecasts, and emissions accounting.
Corporates
Maximize PPA value with independent counterparty valuations, and evaluate data center and facility sites using transmission modeling, long-term energy cost forecasts, and emissions accounting.
Financial Institutions
Receive independent, bankable project valuations and forecast validation benchmarked to actual operations, plus locational siting and scenario-based site scoring for investment committee and diligence materials.
Financial Institutions
Receive independent, bankable project valuations and forecast validation benchmarked to actual operations, plus locational siting and scenario-based site scoring for investment committee and diligence materials.
