Today’s power purchase agreement (PPA) markets in North America are full of uncertainty. Rapidly shifting policies along with growing power demand and clean energy capacity are contributing to widely fluctuating prices across regions and technologies. Short-term PPAs are becoming more common as buyers and sellers manage risk.
In an S&P Global Energy first, this new monthly publication combines Platts price assessments, market commentary, news and heards with our PPA price forecasts and analysis from S&P Global Energy Horizons to create a resource that provides the most complete coverage for the US PPA market available. This report can help clean energy market participants to:
- Better understand their investments
- Assess the viability of projects
- Negotiate competitive contracts
- Plan effective and resilient decarbonization strategies
Our daily PPA price assessments draw on data from numerous sources, including exclusive access to real-time bid, offer and trade data from REsurety’s CleanTrade, the only transaction platform that has been registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate a Swap Execution Facility (SEF) for as generated clean energy in the US.
Our unique forecasting methodology relies on the powerhouse combination of our proprietary CAPEX data, REC prices forecast, and observed transaction bid offer data, market intelligence, and Platts daily power price assessments to strengthen and reinforce our forecasts.
Explore the most complete US PPA coverage available—from S&P Global Energy, your trusted partner in essential energy data and intelligence.
It combines content from S&P Global Energy Platts and S&P Global Energy Horizons, including:
Platts US PPA price assessments
Platts market commentary, news and heards (bids, offers and trades) related to global PPA markets
Platts forward curves for underlying power prices
Platts prices for US REC markets
Horizons PPA price forecasts and market analysis
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