Evaluate opportunities and risks in the energy transition with essential intelligence.

As utilities and power companies shift strategies to incorporate renewables power generation, how do you track current, future and retired power plants, generation capacity and project pipeline to identify investment opportunities? Take our Market Intelligence platform tour to learn more.

As energy companies pursue decarbonization strategies and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, how would their financial performance be affected? We provide in-depth company financials, transaction data, key developments, and corporate yield curves to help you assess business performance with confidence.

• Leverage our worldwide coverage of 4,300+ listed and 118,000+ private companies in the energy sector to benchmark performance with comprehensive financials covering over 5,000 individual data items.
• Perform due diligence on energy companies with regulated, templated, SEC financials, as well as third-party private company financials for strategic synergies and divestments.
• Access our consensus estimates and commodity estimates to review the projected performance of energy companies and commodity prices.
• Monitor competitors with market-moving news, including private company, transactions, corporate actions, product announcements, potential red flags, and M&A transactions with our Key Developments data.

Turn uncertainty into opportunity during this season of accelerated energy transition. The Market Intelligence platform delvers M&A insights to drive market-moving deals. Easily screen for transaction information, dive deep into company financials, asset data and historical deal details to conduct valuation effectively.

• Screen for potential targets or use our Peer Analytical tool to pull a list of peer comparables that matches your selected criteria. Get email alerts when new targets become available.
• Search for announced, completed or terminated energy transactions, private placements, and equity/debt offerings and gain comprehensive company and transaction information.
• Conduct valuation with quality corporate and financial data to perform comprehensive analyses of earnings, multiples, accretion, dilution, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), and return on equity.
• Access pre-built models on M&A and IPO Transactional Comparables, WACC, and Discounted Cash Flow to research comps.
• Leverage our Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACSs)* Excel template to review SPAC IPO and merger activity, pull comparable information on various SPACs, view combined company merger information, and dive into a SPAC’s pricing activity.
• Uncover potential targets/opportunities and use analyst forecasts to evaluate energy companies with our Investment Research tool.

How are energy companies addressing climate change, navigating regulatory changes on carbon emissions, and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic? Stay ahead with our in-depth energy news stories and research reports to understand what’s driving markets and to surface risks and opportunities for your business.

Our editorial coverage includes significant financial and infrastructure developments for 800 cooperatives and 2,000 publicly owned utilities, as well as major news developments for the top 200 North American and European oil and gas companies. Our research analysts compile asset projection, utility rate case, financial and commission reports, to deliver in-depth analysis and keep you posted on vital developments in the energy sector.

You can also access our energy data and insights around the clock with the Market Intelligence mobile app. Curate your feed based on Saved Lists, Industry, or Geography criteria of your choice.

Understand the future of U.S. power markets and conduct valuations of fossil fuel, natural gas and renewable power plants effectively with our 20-year forward-looking electricity price forecasts and analyst insights.

Our Power Forecast solution on the Market Intelligence platform provides essential data and analytics to conduct power plant valuations efficiently with:

• Comprehensive power forward curve projecting power, natural gas, and coal price forecasts, and supporting supply/demand data, drilled down to hourly, daily, monthly and annual power prices.
• A customizable dashboard to efficiently monitor and analyze U.S. regional electricity pricing and fuel pricing across 28 hubs, and forecasts on capacity vs. peak demand and reserve margin for 10 regions
• Forecast accounts for Renewable Portfolio Standards, legislative actions, and new generation and plant retirement announcements, to reflect the future of fleets per region.
• Quarterly forecast guidance reports to understand the U.S. power market outlooks, evaluate investment opportunities and gauge competition in the regional power markets.

S&P Global Market Intelligence Renewable Energy Credit (REC) Price Forecast dataset enables power market participants to analyze and assess the value of wholesale renewable electricity in the U.S. RECs are often used to offset carbon emissions of a company or as a way for organizations to reach 100% renewable sources. Our REC Price Forecast helps energy companies to identify new revenue streams for energy facilities that are looking to be compensated for the value of their renewable energy.

Included in our Power Forecast solution on the Market Intelligence platform, the 20-year Renewable Energy Credit (REC) Price Forecast delivers vital insights:

• Improve power plant asset valuation through the identification of potential REC revenue
• Identify opportunities for new development within the REC markets
• Estimate environmental compliance costs for utilities and power buyers

Evaluate distributed solar plant penetration in the U.S. with project level data for grid-connected residential and non-residential PV systems, up to 5MW. Track small solar project activities by regional or company by company basis, all the way down to the zip code level:

• Analyze which utilities are losing revenue due to load defection from behind-the-meter solar installations in your region, using our Distributed Generation – Solar dataset. Compare key metrics such as installation cost and capacities across states, counties, or zip codes.
• Strengthen your competitor analysis by identifying dominant players in your target markets and comparing your installation costs against theirs. Analyze the relative value of your company in the distributed solar generation domain.
• Evaluate how a solar installation company’s costs have improved over time. Compare module and inverter manufacturers to ensure your projects are using the most efficient technology.

Strengthen your strategy and profitability with deep research on regulatory risk, PPA structure, renewables legislation, utility investments, and energy policy.

• Access nuanced analysis on each Public Utility Commission and utility rate case.
• Research efficiently with quantitative and qualitative market and company-level investment reports.
• Gain a fresh perspective on alternative and renewable power focused policies

Data centers have immense power requirements and provide opportunities for renewable developers to fill the gap of flat-to-declining power demand, particularly in most of the U.S. power markets. As more and more enterprises look to 'green' their infrastructure and neutralize their carbon footprints globally, Multi-Tenant Data Centre (MTDC) providers have increasingly been asked to provide options for clean/renewable energy sources within their datacenter portfolios.

Learn how our 451 Research offering and Market Intelligence energy solutions can help you identify renewable power generation opportunities for data centers globally:

• Track where new data centers are being built, who is developing them, and their power requirements. Our global database covers 6,600+ colocation and wholesale datacenter facilities across North America, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

• Understand the power supply/demand dynamics in data center growth regions and evaluate opportunities for building new plants.

• Simplify the intricacies of matching potential load required by data centers with supply from power projects via our interactive mapping. Our interactive mapping enables the overlapping of utility, transmission and infrastructure layers so that you can quickly visualize the competitive landscape by tying in names of off-takers or data center developers.

• Obtain specific research on the corporate renewable markets, as well as data center markets to understand how technology, policy and regulation are shaping the future of data center growth for renewable projects.
• Create custom news alerts on the elements of the datacentre market you care most about to stay informed on the latest developments.