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North American Power Markets

We’ll give you real-time transparency into state-wide power grids with demand, supply, price, and congestion forecast data.

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Capturing activity as it happens

Genscape – part of Wood Mackenzie since 2019 – is the pioneer in electric power monitoring, the first to aggregate on-the-ground, real-time data. Thousands of patented energy monitors were deployed across the globe, creating a unique dataset that offered unprecedented transparency into power plant output levels, transmission flows and frequency disruptions.

We create value for our customers by transforming gold-standard data into actionable intelligence. Our suite of offerings includes analytical software, market intelligence, trade advisory and consulting.

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Real-time power plant output and transmission flow data from 4,000 patented energy monitors
2 million + data points per day collected and analysed.

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Traders/Analysts

Take a strong position, mitigate risk and develop a clear strategy to maximise profitability. Understand the fundamental drivers of the power market or quickly respond to new opportunities with the most diverse data to address your trading goals.

Whether you're interested in specific congestion potential, cross-boarder capacity flows or micro level power demand impacts, we have a solution.

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Asset Managers/Utilities

Identify the most effective path for your business to take with actionable insights. Our specialists are here to assist you to optimise your hedging strategy and reduce risk. Tailored to your specific asset locations and risk policy, our suite of services gives you the edge.

We supply robust visualisation tools to view line outages, constraints, pricing and historical information to better understand congestion drivers and risks.

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Retail Energy Providers

Focus your time on marketing while we take care of the rest. Use a customised and independent suite of energy management services to manage your power and gas retail workflow.

We can help to address challenges such as energy price, cash flow and regulatory risk through dynamic position reporting, hedging and portfolio management. You can actively manage your business and rely on our team and tools for scheduling, data, analytics and back office support.

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Power Market & Business Services

In an increasingly complex environment, understand the supply and demand fundamentals across power and commodity markets to seize opportunities and manage risks.

Use our EPSI platform to better understand market fundamentals and explore future scenarios. Optimisation-based scenario analysis, coupled with our timely, high-quality data, give you the tools to make confident decisions. The platform is fully hosted on our servers, removing IT barriers and ensuring extremely fast model runs.

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Regulators

Our analysts keep a close watch on day-to-day operations across power grids. We understand the volatility in the supply stack and analyse possible outcomes with risk scenarios. We provide proprietary electric power data and intelligence to make sense of the drivers impacting each region. Count on our analysts to help you uncover market abuse and keep an eye on questionable activity.

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