Platts Market Data - Americas Gas and Power

**Overview**

Price discovery for power and gas occurs in an ever-changing environment, where variables such as fuel mix, regulation, weather, and supply and demand fundamentals can move the markets. In this increasingly complex environment,
understanding the correlation between these variables has never been more important.

This is why we have developed the new Platts Market Data – Americas Gas and Power package which provides access to the full breadth and depth of our market data, including benchmarks and contract price assessments, plus:

– A robust, transparent and proven methodology allowing you to access the best possible reflection of market value, on the day, in a variety of regions

– Access to our team of specialist editors who maintain a daily connection with the market, ensuring that we understand the events that affect the markets and you

Dataset Overview:

– Daily and monthly natural gas benchmark price assessments at over 200
locations throughout North America, including all of the major trading hubs

– Market-reflective indices that illustrate daily gas volatility and regional price differentials via our Gas Indices Americas (GIA) indices

– Extensive coverage of daily activity during bidweek through our Bidweek Watch market data

– Assessments for several key bilateral trading locations in the North American power markets

– Day-ahead and real-time ISO prices

– Spark spreads and marginal heat rate data

**Use cases**

- Asset Valuation - Evaluate ROI for Energy projects and assets
- Quantitative Analysis - Leverage SPGCI data to design and implement complex and insightful models to support energy and commodities trading
- ESG Investment Analysis - Combine SPGCI data with project data-sets into models for visibility, optimizations, and collaboration
- Risk Analysis - Utilize SPGCI's independent, verifiable Risk data to support all risk management functions including validation of internal valuations and better align risk tolerance with business strategy
- Fundamental Analysis - Connect SPGCI pricing data with financial and operations data, and sensing technology to optimize decision-making on spending, productivity and cycle time
- Supply Chain - Integrate SPGCI data to optimize pipeline network management and commercial processes while enabling more effective predictive operations

**Product details**

Sample Tables:
A ) PRICEDATA
B ) REF_DATA_MARKETDATA

Sample Fields:
A ) PRICEDATA
SYMBOL
MDC
DESCRIPTION
BATE
ASSESSDATE
UOM
CURRENCY

B ) REF_DATA_MARKETDATA
COMMODITY
DELIVERY_REGION
DESCRIPTION

View Descriptions:

- PRICEDATA - Get the latest and historical assessments by Symbol
- CORRECTIONS - Get all corrections to the assessments by Symbol
- REF_DATA_MARKETDATA - Get additional reference data for Symbols
- MARKETDATA_DICTIONARY - Contains descriptions and examples of each of the columns in the above views for a better understanding of the dataset