Supporting Power and Renewable Energy Lenders
Lenders leverage ESAI Power’s market data and insights to inform their most critical power and renewables asset and portfolio lending decisions. Our objective capacity and energy forecasts help assess risk on new potential investments, conduct valuation assessments of existing lender debt-books, conduct power market asset re-financings and forecasting risk across an entire thermal and renewable energy debt portfolio.
Capacity, RECs, Carbon & Power Price Forecasts
ESAI Power provides an unbiased, informed fundamental view to support lenders’ investment decisions on new loans, refinancing their existing debt-book, and assessing risk across their power and renewables portfolio. ESAI Power is a well-known, credible source to the lending and buy-side M&A communities. Our long-term forecasts are published to a large subscriber base of investors, IPPs, lenders, developers, and regulators.
Objective Analysis for Investors
ESAI provides objective analysis based on sound fundamental supply and demand modeling. Our deep understanding of market rule changes and how Capacity, Renewable energy and Emissions market regulations impact market outcomes in PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE & and MISO, ESAI’s reports include price forecasts for Power, Capacity, RECs, NatGas & and Carbon.
ESAI’s forecasts support lenders in conducting valuation reviews, forecasting by RTO or at the power plant level, and assessing risk on existing debt or new loans. ESAI is known for publishing ‘the unvarnished truth’ in our long-term forecasts. Our Generation Asset Monitor provides monthly granular plant-by-plant information on generation under development and plants at-risk of retirement.
Power and Renewables Lenders leverage ESAI’s Power market insights to:
- Inform new investment decisions.
- Validate Asset Valuations & Revenue Projections across your debt book.
- Access RTO and zonal level power price forecasts.
- Stay updated on Capacity, Renewable Energy, and Environmental market rule changes and regulations that may have a material impact on long-term Energy Gross Margin forecasts for power plants.
- Assess how market rule changes impact gross revenues over time.
- Conduct effective energy asset analysis.
- Test internal models compared to ESAI’s industry-standard Capacity, Power, Natural Gas, RECs and Carbon price forecast benchmarks.
Transactable Energy Asset Analysis
Long-term energy capital investments & management need accurate information to make sound decisions. ESAI Power’s price forecasts reflect known and expected changes in market rules and operating conditions. Our scenario and sensitivities analysis allow investors to dig into our base case market assumptions to understand on a deep, granular level how a potential retirement or market rule change may relate to future price changes and relative shifts in market conditions.
Our Capacity, RECs, NatGas, and Carbon market reports keep lenders informed of market developments, including renewable generator additions and upcoming retirements, interconnection queue challenges, changes in load growth projections, and how market rules and regulatory changes impact prices over the next decade.
With access to a comprehensive overview of markets through price forecasts, market data, and market reports, as well as senior experts, lenders have a full suite of tools to support new energy asset valuation and management of their existing debt book.
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Energy & Emissions Markets
ESAI provides comprehensive insights into the PJM, New York, and New England energy markets. Our power, natural gas, and emissions market forecasts include zonal LMP forecasting developed using dispatch modeling based on current and projected transmission topology and detailed natural gas pricing projections at specific regional gas delivery points.
In Energy Watch™, ESAI Power delivers ten-year zonal energy price forecasts for most zones in the Northeast power pools.
Emissions Watch™ closely follows carbon market developments at the federal, regional and state levels that impact the emissions markets. At the federal level, ESAI Power reports on changes to existing regulations (e.g., Mercury & Air Toxics, NAAQS and CSAPR Groups 2 & 3 market rules) and analyzes the potential impacts of new and proposed regulations. In addition, ESAI provides price projections for SO2 and NOx (annual and seasonal) allowances.
At the regional level, ESAI Power provides coverage of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Specifically, a 10-year allowance price forecast and CO2 emissions projections.
Capacity & Renewables Markets
Capacity markets are a source of significant revenues for generation assets. ESAI provides quarterly analysis, insights, and capacity market forecasts for every capacity area across ISO-NE, NYISO, PJM, and MISO.
Track key market indicators, auction rule changes, and regulatory updates to reduce risk, protect your investments, and capitalize on changing supply and demand conditions. ESAI’s Generation Asset Monitor (GAM) database is published monthly and provides updates on new generation, retirements and power assets at risk of retirement.
Capacity coverage includes updates to demand curve parameters, changes in peak load, new generation, retirements, shifts in regional transmission impacting capacity areas, and evolving market rules.
Renewable Energy coverage includes solar, onshore & offshore wind, hydro, and storage. For each RTO, ESAI details the regulatory and market factors impacting supply and demand for Class I RECs and projects the supply and demand balance of RECs for the next ten years. ESAI provides a Class I REC price forecast for the ISO-NE and PJM footprints and closely monitors renewable energy supply and demand developments in NYISO.
ESAI’s market experts are always available to clients, providing insights into our market data and reports.
Market Forecasts for Infrastructure Assets
ESAI Power’s team of experts has vast experience in advising lenders on custom forecasts of a portfolio of infrastructure power assets/debt investments. A typical debt portfolio market forecast would include:
- Asset/portfolio market forecasts and gross margin projections.
- Quarterly updates on base case market assumptions.
- Regulatory and Environmental market rule updates.
- Plant-specific, locational base case forecasts for each hub, including delivered natural gas prices.
- Nodal LMPs at each relevant hub, zone and node (on-peak, off-peak, and 7X24).
- Realized power prices, Unit output and Capacity Factor, Fuel consumption & costs, Environmental allowance costs, VOM, Energy gross margin, Capacity Prices & Revenues.
Unbiased Partner for Lenders
ESAI Power’s market data and insights are used by lenders to support their most critical investment decisions. ESAI is recognized on the buy-side because we publish to a large subscriber base of market participants – we consistently deliver unbiased, objective capacity and energy forecasts to subscribers. To maintain integrity, we don’t publish hockey stick revenue forecasts to appease seller’s requests.
Market forecasts, asset valuations & revenue projections are backed by transparent assumptions and are delivered in ESAI’s market reports or in spreadsheet form for ease of use. Market conditions constantly change, meaning risk and upside are always on the horizon for lenders.
ESAI Power’s market forecasts are based on the most reasonable expectations of future outcomes. Market projections and commentaries include assessments of the range of risk outcomes, and where necessary we can provide downside and upside sensitivity cases in addition to our base case forecast.
Validate Asset Valuation Projections
Power sector lenders leverage ESAI Power’s analytics to support asset valuations, revenue & gross margin projections, debt financing, and refinancing of power and renewable energy assets.
Mitigate risks & optimize revenues when evaluating new investments. With market rules, regulatory insights, interconnection queue analysis, and retirement analysis, as well as price forecasts over the next decade. With a clear perspective on projected market developments, debt investments and refinancing processes can be evaluated based upon market forecasts in light of an understanding of the market & regulatory risks.
ESAI’s team will keep you informed of policy developments at the state, regional, and federal levels that impact asset valuations and will update you on early developments in the various ISO/RTO committees.
Coverage Areas
Capacity Watch™ provides an analysis of capacity markets and policy issues that impact capacity price outcomes over a 10-year forecast horizon. Additionally, it offers an evaluation of the outlook for the construction of each generation project in PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE, and MISO.
Energy Watch™ provides analysis of market and policy issues that will impact energy pricing dynamics over the next 10-year period for both the power and natural gas sectors. This analysis includes forecasts of pool-wide and zonal energy prices in New England, New York, and PJM, as well as projections of fuel inputs.
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