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North America Power Solutions

Real-time transparency into nationwide power grids with demand, supply, price and congestion forecast data.

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Discover strategic opportunities in North America's rapidly growing and changing power markets

We bring together the most important fundamental and proprietary data points within the power market. Combining advanced modelling technology with fundamental-based analytics to create daily reports so you can make more informed buying & selling decisions to effectively manage risk, minimize cost, and enhance profitability.

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Discover strategic opportunities in North America's rapidly growing and changing power markets.

  • 153,000+ monitored capacity 
  • 160+ plants monitored 
  • Nearly 100% coverage in ERCOT & MISO 
  • Explore our customizable data visualisation tools to react instantly to power market movements
  • Provides cutting-edge market modeling using high-quality infrastructure and fundamental data
  • Gain access to a one-stop-shop of data derived from our own research team, historical data, and vendor data for a comprehensive view of the power grid
  • Navigate end-to-end energy fundamentals with our exclusive analyst insights to find impactful, revenue-generating solutions with unmatched support
  • View real-time power fundamentals such as congestion events, pricing impacts, generation, and transmission outages, solar and wind output, available capacity, and much more
  • Fill in the gaps with unparalleled coverage that offers real-time information for key power markets including: ISO-NE, NYISO, PJM, MISO, SPP, ERCOT, CAISO, SERC, and WECC so you can always stay ahead of the curve
  • Access an extensive monitoring network for all plant types including coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, wind, pumped storage, oil, and solar, giving you clear insight into plant operations and fuel burn in any ISO.
  • Using our trusted, proprietary data and historical data, you can maximize your investment opportunities while minimizing risk
  • Get ahead and stay ahead of production risk and predict future congestion by monitoring the latest power market trends in real-time
  • Fully validated in-house data sets and reliable forecasting
  • Understand supply and demand shifts, generate power price forecasts, get reliable forward curves, and seasonal market outlooks.

 

Power Traders: 

Strengthen your trading strategies while considering all factors impacting the grid. Understand how to value assets and companies to make optimal, informed trades, purchases, and sales while assessing risk vs. reward under current and historical market conditions. Build your own custom models to monitor power market trends in real-time to help grow your portfolios and business. 

 Utilities/Asset Managers:  

Make confident decisions about current and future commitments in business plans, trades, and individual assets. Monitor your portfolio performance and collate informed purchasing strategies based on data-backed and reliable forecasting. Instantly respond to price spikes, congestion events, and output levels at competing plants with the least amount of risk. 

 Power Supply Managers: 

Buying and selling power requires a close view of the market. Confidently and accurately schedule operations, manage on-site generation, and forecast demand while adhering to risk, credit policies, and regulations with our customizable power solutions. 

 Regulators: 

Keep pace with increasing market complexity and volatility by gaining oversight of power fundamentals to ensure fair trading and quickly identify market manipulation. Gain critical review and analysis of real-time grid conditions, outages, and planned or unplanned events. 

 Analysts: 

Get relevant, down-to-the-minute market fundamental information to accurately supply clients with current supply, demand, and pricing to optimize their workflows and increase profits. With centralized data collection and validation, you can rapidly identify possible trends and quantify their impact on your clients' trading strategies and building models. 

Wood Mackenzie is the leading global data and analytics company for the energy transition. A trusted partner for over 50 years, our team has over 2,400 experts across more than 30 global locations who cover the entire supply chain. Our people and products help businesses and governments navigate significant challenges and make informed decisions to gain a competitive edge.

Modelled Unit Output (MUO) now available for ERCOT & MISO

Whether you’re hedging strategies, monitoring asset opportunities for maximum profits, or simply predicting market movements & volatility, our Model Unit Output for ERCOT & MISO provides nearly 100 percent power plant coverage for full visibility into the market in real-time and access to historic data with the click of a button. Leverage our quantifiable predictions about congestion events across the power grid today to ensure your trades of tomorrow.

Frequently asked questions

Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on North America Power Solutions. If you have any other questions, contact us.

We have a dedicated meteorology team & expert analysts that use forecast models and a database of historical weather patterns to develop precise Current Day and Next Day forecasts for Demand and Wind at ISO and regional levels.

Our IR report provides generator-level data and includes an actual photo which is the most reliable asset over public data. Our systems rely on this heat signature to determine without a doubt when plants are operating.

With the power of our integrated and unified sensor network, we bring together hundreds of data points from country-wide power plants into one view. This allows you to understand, hedge, and take immediate action as the volatile power market changes so you can maximise your trades and business opportunities with minimum risk.

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Whether you’re looking for attractive new opportunities or evaluating existing projects, our experts are on hand to guide you through how our North America Market Intelligence can help you.

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