Explore basis risk of US assets and portfolios with historic, real-time and projected prices.
Lens Power
Transform the way you make strategic investment decisions in clean energy
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Lens Power
Transform the way you make strategic investment decisions in clean energy
A complete data analytics solution for the energy transition
Lens Power connects conventional power, solar, wind and energy storage data and insights in an easy-to-use, unified platform.
Use it to screen and benchmark companies, portfolios, and power generation assets globally.
Features and workflows
Integrated market intelligence to strengthen power market investment strategies.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Lens Power:
- Screen for development sites with unique geospatial layers and filters.
- Benchmark corporate asset portfolios with full transparency into the development pipeline.
- Investigate power market dynamics of supply, demand, and LCOE for markets and technologies.
- Assess nodal risk with historic, real-time and projected prices.
- Powerful API service to seamlessly integrate Wood Mackenzie data into your own proprietary systems and BI tools, including Excel, Power BI, Spotfire, Tableau and more.
Wood Mackenzie's Lens Power provides data on:
- Our team is made up of over 2,000 specialists covering all areas of the energy supply chain.
- With over 10 years’ experience in power and renewables we are a true pioneer in new energy markets.
- Backed up by our deep experience in energy and natural resources, we are uniquely capable of delivering analysis across interconnected markets.
- Based in 30 global locations, we work in close partnership with energy producers, governments, financial institutions, and utilities companies around the world.
- Together, we deliver insight to the people leading the energy transition, equipping them to separate risk from opportunity and make bold decisions when it matters most.
Wood Mackenzie's Lens Power enables a number of key workflows including:
Long-term planning and strategy
- New market entry.
- Market expansion.
- Portfolio management.
Investment due diligence
- Benchmark assets and portfolios.
- Merchant revenue and risk assessment.
- Project lifecycle analysis (repower, upgrade, retire).
Why choose WoodMac's Lens Power?
- Strategically position your organisation to quickly respond to market conditions and be on the forefront of the energy transition.
- Maximise investment opportunities in clean energy with trusted, analytics-ready data for confident decision-making.
- Minimise risk by validating portfolio strategies against Wood Mackenzie data and models.
- Increase productivity and lower costs with immediate insights using an intuitive interface fit for all users.
Lens Power: One dataset. One view.
Integrated power and renewables data to connect, visualise, and support long-term planning, strategy, and investment due diligence.
133K+
Power generation projects
14 TW
Total capacity
225+
Countries
35K+
Parent companies/subsidiaries
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With Lens Power, organisations can look across the electricity value chain to make data-driven strategic investment decisions and improve performance.
60K+
Wind assets
39K+
Solar plants
17K+
Conventional power plants
4,500
Energy storage systems
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Nodal price projections
Analyse historic basis risk
- See the impacts of congestion on price
- Quantify curtailment events for power generation assets
- Identify distressed assets with extreme historic nodal basis
Real-time nodal pricing, updated every 5 minutes
Visualise live market dynamics for over 38,000+ nodes across US markets, alongside individual asset data.
30-year nodal price projections
Quickly benchmark merchant revenue expectations with 19,000+ hourly nodal price projections.
High-throughput screening at your fingertips
Combine thirty-year nodal price projections with bankable zonal price forecasts and historic basis profiles to identify assets and portfolios with high basis risk exposure.
Nodal price coverage in all US ISO regions
| ERCOT | CAISO |
| PJM | SPP |
| ISO-NE | MISO |
| NY-ISO |
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Lens Power. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Yes. The energy transition involves multiple industries coalescing. The unified experience in Lens means that anyone entitled to Lens Power, Lens Hydrogen and Lens CCUS solutions will be able to analyse, screen, benchmark and value these datasets alongside each other in the same Lens interface, enabling incredibly powerful workflows. This multi-industry view lets users employ maps, dashboards and search navigation tools to perform cross-commodity analysis and encourage exploration beyond basic questions.
Absolutely. Lens Power delivers historic settled power prices, real-time, long-term zonal forecasts, and nodal price projections to create an end-to-end analysis of risk and return for new clean energy investments with nodal granularity.
Definitely. Wood Mackenzie is the leading provider of power price curves, with trusted forecasts out to 2050. We offer a full suite of power market fundamentals analysis for high-throughput screening activities.
Yes. Lens Power provides a global map with rich geospatial overlays including wind speed, solar irradiance, transmission infrastructure, land use, and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) community layers to highlight where tax incentives may be available for new renewable projects in the United States.