Platts Market Data - Energy Transition

**Overview**

Platts energy transition price assessments provide a basis for trade across global environmental markets as well as providing understanding of the reasons behind market shifts. In these emerging trading markets, understanding the correlation between regions and commodities to compete effectively has never been more important.

Platts Market Data – Energy Transition package provides access to the full breadth and depth of our energy transition market data, including 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

-Historical data to enable you to look at past market trends to inform your future plans and back testing needs

Dataset Overview:

-Platts’ full suite of Voluntary Carbon Market Price Assessments. These are the most in-depth in the market, covering a wide range of projects. They are designed to bring much needed transparency to a market looking to scale and fulfill its potential as an important tool in the mission to achieve 2050 climate targets.

-Platts’ CARBEX carbon credit indices, produced in partnership with Viridios AI. CARBEX indices reflect the current market value for specific project types that carry defined sets of Sustainable Development Goals co-benefits, as defined by the United Nations General Assembly.

-Platts’ full suite of daily hydrogen price assessments, which bring transparency across regions and production pathways including North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. These demonstrate the production cost of hydrogen for Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) production methods, including some regions Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), along with prices for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Electrolysis, Alkaline Electrolysis, Auto Thermal Reforming (ATR), Coal Gasification and Lignite Gasification production pathways, depending on the production hubs.

-Platts’ growing suite of Ammonia assessments. These include cargo prices on a CFR basis into Asia, Northwest Europe, and the US Gulf Coast, and cargo prices on an FOB basis loaded in the Middle East and the Black Sea.

-Daily assessments of Methane Performance Certificates (MPCs). These are certificates traded on the spot market that represent avoided methane emissions from the production of a specific volume of natural gas

**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