PowerSIMM

PowerSIMM^TM provides utilities, independent power producers, data center and Commercial and Industrial companies the intelligence to plan and operate power supply. Economics make or break a project, and PowerSIMM delivers insights, analysis, and plans to minimize costs and maximize asset returns, ensuring budgeted cash flows equal realized cash flows.

By melding the physical side of power supply and demand with today’s new market dynamics, PowerSIMM helps identify opportunities with a deep understanding of risk.

From Integrated Resource Planning to active portfolio management and operations, PowerSIMM uniquely adds value across the entire enterprise’s energy scaling efforts.

Planning to Procurement for Utilities and CCAs of all Sizes

Make faster, more accurate energy portfolio decisions from planning through procurement.

5x

Faster IRP to RFP
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$3MM - $7MM

in cost savings
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5x

increase in bidder participation for RFOs

A Single, Unified, Enterprise-Scale Platform

Supports the complete planning to procurement lifecycle from IRP through operations, covering intermittent renewable energy sources as well as dispatchable and flexible resources, including storage, thermal, and other generation assets

Trusted by leading utilities, recognized by PUCs and top-tier financial institutions nationwide

Advanced storage valuation and operation capabilities, including co-location analysis

Includes capacity expansion planning, transmission modeling, revenue requirements, carbon and RPS constraint modeling, reliability analysis, sub-hourly nodal forecasts, and tax equity forecasting

Reliability analysis using co-simulations of load and renewables with correlated forced outages shows reliability risk across hundreds of weather years

Integrated bidding via Ascend Power Procurement

Project Timeline

8760-hour chronological simulations across 100+ weather futures capture volatility, negative price-production correlations, and locational value
Resource plans co-optimize evolving reliability, costs, and emissions reduction potential

Sophisticated probabilistic analytics and opportunity-cost price formulation models evaluate products under volatility and policy uncertainty
Scenario stress-testing quantifies exposure to price risk, marginal ELCC declines, and ancillary service saturation, enabling robust, defensible investment choices

Integrates automated bid collection, stochastic valuation, and portfolio impact modeling
A transparent RFP process accelerates timelines from years to months, increases competition 300-500%, and reduces procurement costs by up to 10% while optimizing portfolio risk-adjusted returns

8760-hour chronological simulations across 100+ weather futures capture volatility, negative price-production correlations, and locational value
Resource plans co-optimize evolving reliability, costs, and emissions reduction potential

Probabilistic decision analysis and opportunity-cost modeling for optimized economic valuation
Scenario stress-testing quantifies exposure to the principal components of risk and their percent contribution including weather, forward prices, marginal ELCC, generating analysis for fully supported investment decisions.

Provides automated collection and straight through processing of RFP offers for rapid valuation and optimal power supply resource selection
Ascend's process and broad customer reach increase competitiveness by 300-500%, resulting in lower power supply costs by up to 10%

Market Standard for Origination Modeling and Risk-Return Analysis Across Every US ISO

Fast and comprehensive asset valuation including basis, volumetric risk, capture rate, and price risk

Provides the risk mitigation impacts of hedges to evaluate portfolio management decisions and hedging strategies

Advanced offtake structuring, including shaped, floor, collars and emissions weighted PPA design

Analyze Net Present Value (NPV) and IRR distributions with full visibility into revenue drivers

Used in 100+ project financings by leading developers and banks, including Goldman-Sachs, First Citizens, EDF, AES, Arclight, Enel, and others

Merchant versus hedge versus fixed contract stress testing

Hedge, sign a PPA, or go merchant? PowerSIMM’s valuation and origination capabilities provide the answers that enable IPPs and renewables developers to design, optimize, and execute revenue strategies to maximize financial performance.

PowerSIMM Portfolio Management provides the insights to tilt portfolio risk away from the undesirable toward the acceptable through layering on a series of hedges.

Green reporting provides net month hour REC position

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Commercial & Industrial Power Procurement

Procure and optimize power supply contracts for front-of-and behind-the-meter portfolios to maximize value and clean energy procurement, contracting, and operations at scale.

100%

coverage across the U.S.

One

platform for power supply,
interconnection,
reliability, & procurement

120 GW

power
procurement
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Precision Power Through More Competitive Solicitations

Minimize power supply costs and enhance the value of clean power purchases through economically rationalized decisions backed by Ascend's bankable expertise

One platform accelerates efforts across power supply, interconnection, reliability, and procurement

Create lasting energy supply decisions for both behind-the-meter and front-of-meter projects

Forecasts are underpinned by retail rates and energy markets, as well as modeling of physical plant load and energy systems

Support data center site selection inclusive of interconnect availability and costs, system power supply reliability analysis, and PPA valuations

Operationalize BESS and back-up power to maximize value

Estimate and track facility-level emissions and marginal emissions

Power flow and interconnection availability and upgrade cost analysis

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