Product Overview

One Partner From Siting Through Operations

Rapid market change makes disconnected analysis increasingly costly. Ascend’s integrated suite of market intelligence, expert services, and proprietary analytics provide a unified foundation for higher-confidence decisions from planning through operations.

Ascend Product Ecosystem

Our complete product ecosystem offers a full-spectrum platform for decision-making across planning, financing, and operations.  By utilizing Ascend market forecasts and resource analysis, the platform addresses the needs of resource planners, developers, power buyers and investors. Ascend provides solutions that range from day-ahead and real-time operations, intermediate-term hedging and budget risk management, to long-term investment analysis for the industries we serve.

Supporting Customers Through the Full Product Lifecycle
Strategy, Research & Analysis
Planning
Siting, Valuation & Financing
Development
Asset Transactions & PPAs
Commercialization
Bidding, Dispatch & Scheduling
Operations
Portfolio & Risk Management
Ongoing

The Ascend Analytics Product Suite captures the new dynamics of electricity markets. Ascend Software integrates weather variability as a key predictor in modeling renewables, load and price to provide robust and insightful risk-based portfolio management and optimized resource plans. Ascend transforms thought leadership into software with actionable intelligence for making decisions from the next hour to the next 30 years.

Analytic Solutions for the Power Industry

Ascend transforms thought leadership into software with actionable intelligence for making decisions from the next hour to the next 30 years. Our software integrates weather variability as a key predictor in modeling renewables, load and price to provide robust and insightful risk-based portfolio management and optimized resource plans.

Distinguishing Ascend Software

Ascend provides critical insights for planning, valuation, risk management, and power market operations. Trusted by more than 250 current customers, Ascend Analytics provides the platform-of-choice that fuels more than $50 billion in project financing assessments.

Unique Modeling Capabilities

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Ascend

Forecast nodal sub-hourly prices & RE gen
Incorporate imperfect foresight (i.e., forecast error)
Integrate weather to drive load, renewables & marketplace
Match hourly & sub-hourly price vols & spreads
Simulate full transmission & generation outages
Continuously optimize battery bid strategy