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Determine Future Energy Prices Using GridSite Nodal

A nodal price forecast you can explain, defend, and act on.
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Nodal Forecasts for Future Energy Prices You Can Defend

Future energy prices decide whether a project pencils, and a zonal average won’t tell you what your node will actually earn.

GridSite’s fundamentally based nodal price forecasting models how the grid will price your position, not a zonal average, and not a black box. It turns future energy prices into long-term revenue assumptions you can defend through financing, investment committee reviews, procurement negotiations, and years of real-world operations.

Every assumption is documented and updated quarterly. So when a lender, a board, or a counterparty challenges your view of future energy prices, you can explain exactly how the forecast was built.

Wherever You Sit in the Market, the Questions Remain the Same

Every site you advance past screening is committed spend. Find the bad ones in week one, not month twelve.

A $5/MWh basis miss on a 200 MW contract is $23M that ratepayers didn’t sign up for.

Site and procurement decisions get made once. A future energy pricing forecast miss shows up as sunk costs for years to come.

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Where Other Nodal Price Forecasting Tools Fall Short

Correlation-based, regressed from zonal, or built on assumptions you can’t see. GridSite's long-term price forecast is built differently.

Defensible

Every assumption is documented and traceable, curated by market analysts every quarter, so the number holds up when a lender or board pushes back.

Truly nodal

Modeled at every node from market fundamentals, not regressed from a zonal average, so basis risk shows up before you lock in a commitment, not after.

Complete market context

Historical pricing, queue data, and market intelligence live alongside the forecast, so you’re never reconciling numbers across vendors.

Built for an Evolving Grid

The future isn’t shaped by one change. It’s shaped by new generation, transmission expansion, load growth, retirements, policy shifts, fuel markets, and evolving market rules. GridSite’s fundamentally based forecast incorporates the forces reshaping power markets, with quarterly analyst-reviewed updates that keep assumptions aligned with today’s grid realities.

GridSite nodal price map showing forecasted future energy prices by node

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What to Expect

Set up 30 minutes to talk through where your forecasting workflow is running into friction, and where Yes Energy can help. If there’s a fit for your needs, we’re happy to discuss free trial access.

GridSite nodal price forecast for CAISO showing future energy prices by node
Forecasts Backed by Industry Experts

Our modeling bench includes the team behind PowerIntel and Tabors Caramanis Rudkevich (TCR), whose research helped shape the pricing and marginal-emissions methodologies used across the industry today — now built directly into GridSite.

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Questions Worth Asking Upfront

Is a free trial available for this forecast?

Yes. Book time with our team above, and ask about the free trial offer. We will also share more about the forecast assumption methodology.

How is this different from a correlation-based or machine-learning forecast?

GridSite is built from market fundamentals modeled at every node, with documented assumptions you can trace and explain, rather than a statistical pattern you can't unpack.

Which markets does the forecast cover?

Full nodal coverage across PJM, ERCOT, NYISO, ISO-NE, MISO, SERC, and SPP today, with CAISO joining soon.

How current are the assumptions behind the numbers?

Market analysts review and update every capacity, retirement, policy, and fuel assumption on a quarterly cycle, so you're never working off a stale view.

Does this replace our consultants or in-house analysis?

It's built to sit alongside your team, putting node-level pricing and drivers directly in their hands instead of a one-off study you have to wait on.

How far out does GridSite's long-term power price forecast go? GridSite's long-term forecast extends through 2050, giving you node-level price projections for financing, PPA negotiations, and site-selection decisions that span the full life of an asset.
Why does nodal price forecasting matter? Power prices differ from node to node because of transmission congestion, and a zonal or hub average hides that difference. Hidden basis risk can erode a project’s value after development capital is already committed, and it makes assumptions harder to defend with lenders, boards, and regulators. Nodal price forecasting shows that risk, and what future energy prices mean at your location, before you commit.
How are nodal price forecasts built?

GridSite’s long-term nodal price forecast combines capacity expansion planning with nodal production cost modeling, simulating how the grid physically operates instead of extrapolating from historical prices. Every node is modeled from market fundamentals, not regressed from a zonal average. Assumptions for generation, transmission, load growth, fuel prices, and policy are documented and reviewed quarterly by market analysts. Price and emissions forecasts come from the same model, so they stay consistent.

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