MUO is now available for ERCOT & MISO. 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.
Products & services
North America Power Solutions
Real-time transparency into nationwide power grids with demand, supply, price and congestion forecast data
Our North America Power Solutions provide you with the confidence to react to the changes in the power market as they happen
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 that you can make more informed buying & selling decisions to effectively manage risk, minimize cost, and enhance profitability.
Get high-quality data and national coverage
715K+
Monitored capacity
1,150+
Plants monitored
100%
Nearly 100% coverage in ERCOT & MISO
Features and workflows
Discover strategic opportunities in North America's rapidly growing and changing power markets.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's North America Power Solutions:
- 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.
- 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.
- View real-time power fundamentals such as congestion events, pricing impacts, generation, and transmission outages, solar and wind output, available capacity, and much more.
Wood Mackenzie's North America Power Solutions provides data on:
- Using our trusted, proprietary 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.
Wood Mackenzie's North America Power Solutions enables a number of key workflows including:
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.
Why choose WoodMac's North America Power Solutions?
We provide real-time visibility of supply generation and transmission flows to better understand price changes. Easily identify and measure the congestion, risks, and opportunities for targeted bid pairs from coast to coast.
Modelled Unit Output (MUO)
ERCOT before
Our Model Unit Output for ERCOT & MISO allows you to hedge strategies, monitor asset opportunities for maximum profits, and predict market movements and volatility.
ERCOT after
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 Wood Mackenzie's North America Power Solutions. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
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.
| Capability | Monitoring | Discovery | Insights | Modelling |
| PowerRT Platform: Access to over 1,115+ EMF, IR, MUO Monitored Generation Plants |  |
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| PowerRT Platform: EMF Monitored Transmission Lines | |
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| PowerRT Platform: Frequency Events | |
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| Data Analysis on Supply Stack by fuels, capacity, plant owner | |
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| Price Data (LMP) – Plants and Hubs | |
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| API Access to PowerRT Generation Data (EMF, IR, MUO, Transmission), Dailly Aggregates (EMF, IR) & Hourly Aggregates (EMF, IR) | |
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| PowerIQ Daily Reports: Forecasts of Bal-Day, Next-Day & Recap Prior Day (interface & API) | |
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| PowerIQ Weekly Reports: Bal-Week, Next-Week Insights* (interface & API) | |
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| PowerIQ PowerBuyer: Zonal DART Price Forecasts with Buy/Sell Strategy* (interface & API) | |
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| PowerIQ 14-Day Hourly Price Forecast: accessible via CongestionIQ API | |
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| PowerIQ Peak Alerts & 14-day Demand Forecasts* (interface & API) | |
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| Bid Data Interface & API | |
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| Quarterly Outlooks – 3-month forward view of the power markets | |
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| Option to add Analyst Call (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly) | |
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| CongestionIQ Analysis & DAM Module | |
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| PowerIQ Month-Ahead Report (FTR/CRR) | |
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| CongestionIQ FTR/CRR Default Power Flow Model Run | |
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| CongestionIQ Custom FTR/CRR Power Flow Model Run | |
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| CongestionIQ Customized Portfolio run by Market Intelligence Team | |
Contact an expert
Ready to learn more and see a demo of our solutions in play? Contact one of our representatives here.
