Discover, Impact, and Simulate
Identify opportunities and evaluate risk
A map-based SaaS product that integrates weather and power market data at an unprecedented scale. Discover and Impact’s speed and ease of use saves you time.
From regional trend analysis to hourly project performance benchmarking, Discover and Impact deliver the breadth and depth of analysis you need, quickly and accurately, all with a couple of clicks. Discover and Impact leverage REsurety’s unique expertise at the intersection of atmospheric science, power market modeling and big data. Billions of data points are integrated, quality controlled and analyzed to provide the financial metrics that are critical to renewable energy decision makers’ success.
Discover and Impact Features
Historical and forecasted data
View historical price and generation data for any project up to 20 years into the past or 20 years into the future. Historical data can even be modeled to pre-date a project’s commission date to simulate a longer backcast of project performance. And forecasted power prices and generation are available across a range of power market conditions and weather scenarios to get a complete and realistic range of possible future outcomes.
Locational Marginal Emissions data
In addition to accessing generation and power market data across the entire United States, at all renewable project locations, Discover and Impact offer the ability to view and analyze historical and forecasted LME data for operational wind and solar projects in ERCOT, PJM, CAISO, MISO, SPP, NYISO, and ISONE. Quickly access high quality carbon emissions data paired with generation at the monthly and hourly level.
Any wind or solar project
Access detailed performance data for nearly 2,000 existing and operational projects. No existing project? No problem. Simulate a wind or solar project anywhere in the contiguous U.S. using our advanced modeling methodology. One solution provides complete geographic insight into the U.S. renewable energy market.
Data at the granularity you need
Temporal and geographic data available at multiple granularities and resolutions. Whether you’re looking for temporal data at the monthly, hourly or peak/off-peak level or geographic data for the county, hub or ISO, aggregate and disaggregate data to the resolution that makes sense for your business and decision-making needs.
Workflow integration
Put our data to work. Download data directly for ad-hoc reporting and presentation needs or integrate more fully using our API and your programming language of choice for a seamless workflow experience between other platforms or in-house analytical tools.
30+ project metrics
Metrics are made available at multiple levels to anticipate your needs. View metrics on an individual project level or across multiple projects or geographies to compare performance. Common metrics include Basis, Shape, Merchant Revenue, As-Gen Price, ATC Price, 12×2 Price, 12×24 Price, Negative Price, Generation, PPA settlement, FVS settlement and more.
Settlement simulation
Model the most common types of risk transfers in the market: fixed volume swaps and virtual PPAs. For fixed volume swaps, easily define your market, price type, hedge amount and view outcomes for both the short and long price perspectives. For virtual PPAs, easily define your market, settlement point, price and view outcomes from either a generator or offtaker perspective.
Use Cases and Value
M&A sourcing & screening
Expand your pipeline and filter opportunities better, faster, cheaper.
Offtake comparison & analysis
Understand option set and evaluate on risk adjusted basis.
Business development
Understand your client’s opportunities and threats as well as – or better than – they do.
Procurement & RFP administration
Compare RFP submissions on an apples-to-apples, risk-adjusted basis.
Greenfield development
Expand your pipeline and filter opportunities better, faster, cheaper.
Hedge product indication
Start your discussions with precision: data-driven pricing estimates and comparative value.
Simulate
Simulate is a tool for forecasting and backcasting wind and solar project and PPA performance.
With the tool, users can rank power purchase agreement RFP results based on expected financial value and risk, emissions impact, carbon free energy metrics, among others. For renewable projects and contracts, you can forecast generation and offtake settlements.
Simulate generates three key sets of outputs including: summary, historical, and forecast.
The summary output provides forecasted summary metrics for the length of the contract term to help customers simulate the long-term financial settlement and emissions impact of projects/contracts under consideration. Historical analysis is provided to help customers ground forecasted expectations in historical performance and trends, as well as provide more nodal granularity for emissions impact and basis data. Forecasted analysis is provided to help customers simulate the long-term financial settlement and emissions impact of projects/contracts under consideration.
Simulate enables you to diligence and stack-rank PPA bids on the platform. You can:
- Simulate how a specific project and associated contract would have performed historically and forecast performance over the contract term and download your results.
- Evaluate bids against standardized metrics to compare opportunities and trade-offs.
- Visualize historical and forecasted settlement and carbon metrics.