Platts-ICE Forward Curve – Electricity is a comprehensive and independent view of forward pricing in the North American electricity market. It provides the marketplace with a complete and independently-derived set of curves tailored to meet the growing risk-management needs of the trading community.

The Platts-ICE Forward Curve – Electricity includes daily on-peak and off-peak assessments at 17 key electricity trading hubs and extends out four years. It also includes daily market commentary on the forward markets.

The product combines the data-gathering power and expertise of both Platts and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).

Platts gathers information on the forward market through the non-commercial departments of companies, from discussions with traders and brokers active in the market, and then incorporates electricity forward trading activity from ICE, including transactions and bids and offers.

Platts experts co-mingle the data under established methodologies to formulate the daily assessments.

Packages:

For the Eastern and Central markets, daily on-peak and off-peak assessments are formulated for the prompt-month, second-month, balance-of-the-year in seasonal packages, two full years in seasonal packages and four calendar years.

Seasonal packages include the January-February winter package, the March-April spring package, May, June, the July-August summer package, September and the fourth-quarter.

For the Western markets, daily on-peak and off-peak packages are formulated for the prompt month, second month, balance-of-the-year in quarters, two full years in quarters, and four calendar-years.

Daily forward assessments are formulated for these key trading hubs and markets:

• Mass Hub (New England)
• New York Zone-G (Hudson Valley)
• New York Zone-J (New York City)
• New York Zone-A (West New York)
• Ontario
• PJM west
• AD Hub (AEP-Dayton Hub)
• NI Hub (Northern Illinois Hub)
• Cinergy Hub
• TVA, Into
• Southern, Into
• Entergy, Into
• ERCOT (Seller's choice)
• Mid-Columbia
• Palo Verde
• NP15 (Northern California)
• SP15 (Southern California)

Platts-ICE Forward Curve – Electricity allows you to run daily mark-to-market validation, aid internal auditing and support portfolio risk metrics such as:

• Value-at-risk
• Stress Testing
• Risk disaggregation

Platts has developed partnerships with leading network and software providers to create tailor-made solutions for integrating Platts information with your operation.

Call us today for your free demonstration and to arrange for a free trial.