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Ascend Power Procurement platform enables utilities and corporates to procure, evaluate, and optimize power supply contracts for front-of-meter and behind-the-meter portfolios. The platform is purpose-built for minimizing cost and risk of supply, enhancing portfolio reliability, and achieving clean power supply objectives. Ascend’s track record extends back 20+ years, having procured more than 120 GW of power on behalf of our customers.
Ascend’s Power Procurement Platform accelerates each step, bringing together the disparate pieces of the process into a single, intuitive hub. APP houses the critical components of RFP administration, with the added benefits of Ascend’s broad developer network and a systems-level perspective on how supply additions affect an existing portfolio.
A single platform for all stages of procurement: Request for Offer, submission valuation, selection, and contracting
Backed by the power market expertise of Ascend’s forecasts, risk management, and valuation resources
Help if you need it: Self-manage the procurement process or leverage Ascend’s expert analysts and project teams
Run one or multiple processes: The value of the platform pays for itself after one procurement process and rapidly scales up
Attract 3 – 5x the bidders versus a buyer-run process, sourced from Ascend’s vast developer network and beyond
Bid valuations capture energy and ancillary services net revenue, PPA cost, basis risk, and project development risk
Estimate and track facility-and portfolio level- emissions, including hourly matching and marginal emissions
Field responses and evaluate projects, all within 3 weeks supported by Ascend’s PowerSIMM and Market Intelligence
Securely share messages with your internal team and select bidders
Automated bid evaluation and tracking towards emissions and cost objectives with built-in PowerSIMM data integration
Ascend Analytics empowers utilities and community choice aggregators to minimize power supply costs, mitigate risks, and achieve sustainability objectives by leveraging our platform capabilities that include:
PowerSIMM co-optimization engine provides capacity expansion planning, carbon/RPS constraint modeling, reliability analysis, transmission modeling, financial analysis, DSM value determination, and more. The outcome is an optimal blend of renewable resources, capacity, and reliability - offered as either a flexible one-time service or cost-effective SaaS solution tailored to evolving client needs. When connected to AEX for power procurement, offers are automatically uploaded and evaluated with rapid and seamless turnaround.
Comprehensive asset valuation software that optimizes siting and economic valuation, maximizing all potential revenue streams. Utilizing Ascend Analytics' 20+ year nodal price forecasts, PowerSIMM assesses asset value and site economics across ISOs, incorporating geospatial analysis for locational screening.
PowerSIMM Portfolio Management solution optimizes hedging, REC balancing, and risk outcomes. The solution empowers clients to make budget-conscious decisions by considering key portfolio drivers systematically, ensuring cash flow goals are met or exceeded.
Day-ahead and real-time bid optimization and scheduling software for storage, renewable, and hybrid assets that yields up to 100% increase over traditional strategies. With SmartBidder, users can develop their own customized bid strategies leveraging AI-based models based on nodal forecasts, asset constraints, and risk-based optimization.
Pre-vetted renewable and storage projects are sold on the AEX Exchange leveraging a proven process facilitated by Ascend experts that includes detailed market analysis, project valuation, and financial modelling. Sellers attract an average of five times more bidders, resulting in competitive offers.
Full-service Power Procurement process with experienced analysts that help define procurement needs, provide valuations, administer and host the RFP process, and support project evaluation and negotiations. Ascend Analytics' process achieves up to 4 times the number of respondents through leveraging its developer network, realizing a more competitive outcome. With automated process of offers, Ascend Analytics frequently evaluates a hundred bid submissions in a week to produce a list of least cost finalists.
Commission verified and widely bankable, Ascend’s power market price forecasts reflect the dynamics of today's power markets. Ascend Analytics' Market Intelligence valuations are proven to align with actual operations, offering 20+ year forecasts of sub-hourly power prices, ancillary services, capacity, REC, and nodal basis across major markets in the US and Europe.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the power industry. The company's offerings enable decision makers in power development and supply procurement to maximize the value of planning, operating, and managing risk for renewable, storage, and other assets. From real-time to 30-year horizons, their forecasts and insights are at the foundation of over $50 billion in project financing assessments. Ascend provides energy market shareholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.
Ascend Analytics supports Merchant Operators to site, value, structure, and operate power generation projects for optimal decision making and financial viability. Our capabilities include:
PowerSIMM assesses individual assets and portfolio values and risks, enabling chief commercial officers and originators to quickly determine the risk/return tradeoff of alternative commercial off-take structures.
Industry-leading economic valuation and siting software for standalone storage and renewable+storage projects. PowerVAL utilizes Ascend Analytics' proven 20+ year price forecasts to determine storage value and assess site economics across ISOs and includes state-of-the-art mapping that enables clients to survey and screen locations.
PowerSIMM Portfolio Management solution optimizes hedging, REC balancing, and risk outcomes for merchant power portfolios and models future cash flows from structured power sales. PowerSIMM empowers merchant operators with dynamic hedging strategies so realized cash flows equal or exceed budgeted cash flows.
EnSurance enables efficient merchant storage financing by transferring revenue tail risk to investment-grade insurance counterparties as counterparties, enabling developers to preserve project upside while insuring against downside revenue risk.
Pre-vetted renewable and storage projects are sold on the Ascend Energy Exchange (AEX) leveraging a proven process facilitated by Ascend experts that includes detailed market analysis, project valuation, and financial modelling. Sellers attract an average of five times more bidders, resulting in competitive offers.
Day-ahead and real-time bid optimization and scheduling software for storage, renewable, and hybrid assets that yields up to 100% increase over traditional strategies. With SmartBidder, users can develop their own customized bid strategies or use AI-based models based on nodal forecasts, asset constraints, and risk-based optimization.
Commission verified and widely bankable, Ascend's power market price forecasts reflect the dynamics of today's power markets. Ascend Analytics' Market Intelligence valuations are proven to align with actual operations, offering 20+ year forecasts of sub-hourly power prices, ancillary services, capacity, REC, and nodal basis across major markets in the US and Europe.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the power industry. The company's offerings enable decision makers in power development and supply procurement to maximize the value of planning, operating, and managing risk for renewable, storage, and other assets. From real-time to 30-year horizons, their forecasts and insights are at the foundation of over $50 billion in project financing assessments. Ascend provides energy market stakeholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.
Contact UsAscend Analytics offers portfolio management to electric retailers, lowering costs and risks to serve load to uncertain power market prices and production variability from renewables.
Industry-leading PowerSIMM Portfolio Management enables electric retailers to focus on upside potential by optimizing hedge ratios and accounting for primary risk failure points, including counter-party credit risk, PFE, and cash flow/revenue forecasting.
Commission verified and widely bankable, Ascend's power market price forecasts reflect the dynamics of today's power markets. Ascend Analytics' Market Intelligence valuations are proven to align with actual operations, offering 20+ year forecasts for power prices, ancillary services, capacity, REC, and nodal basis across major markets in the US and Europe.
Annual and 24x7 carbon free energy (CFE) analytic insights and economic valuations that consider renewable energy credits (RECs), hourly REC/emissions offsets, and capacity, enabling users to realize a least cost supply portfolio with minimized risk and forward-looking value of energy.
Ascend Analytics is the leading provider of market intelligence and analytics solutions for the power industry. The company's offerings enable decision makers in power development and supply procurement to maximize the value of planning, operating, and managing risk for renewable, storage, and other assets. From real-time to 30-year horizons, their forecasts and insights are at the foundation of over $50 billion in project financing assessments. Ascend provides energy market shareholders with the clarity and confidence to successfully navigate the rapidly shifting energy landscape.
Contact UsSolicit RFP interest from the open market as well as from Ascend’s extensive developer network, attracting 3 -5 times more bids than a self-run process, resulting in lower supply costs by up to 10%.
Developers submit offers free of charge, ensuring a robust response, while at the same time the platform ensures minimum criteria are met.
Send announcements, host webinars, and receive and respond to questions, all within the platform.
Collect bid submissions on the platform, with customized requirements, project details, and constraints, ensuring bids align with the RFP goals.
Finalist evaluations are completed in 3 weeks, 3 times faster than typical processes.
Using Ascend’s PowerSIMM and Market Intelligence solutions, evaluations capture both the project economics and the emissions goals. Evaluate demand- and supply-side resources on a level playing field, capturing the economic risk by simulating performance across a range of possible futures.
Our proprietary market price forecasts capture the weather-driven price and volatility dynamics of modern energy markets.
Energy or capacity normalized metrics are used to account for projects of different sizes, technologies, and commercial operational dates. Ascend collaborates with the offtaker to select scoring criteria for the ESG impact.
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