Global Power Inc. also offers a range of valuable services to various market participants
in the current industry. A sample of these services is listed below.
MARKET OPERATORS AND RULE DEVELOPERS
- Market operators such as the IESO and the ISO who need a reliable tool to forecast
market prices based on supply and demand conditions, transmission limits, inter-regional
transactions and market rules in a real-time, short-term and long-term time frames.
- FERC - who oversees the development of standard market design rules and the formation
of RTO will benefit to have the ability to dry-run those proposals prior to such commitments.
POWER MARKETER, GENERATING ASSET OWNER, TRANSMISSION OWNER AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
- Asset valuation - truly incorporating the optionality and impact of the existing transmission
network, uncertainty in fuel costs, load, transmission expansion, bidding behaviors.
- Merchant transmission - impact of a new transmission expansion program has on the flows of
existing network and generation owners.
- Market Rules - proposed standard market design rules and how they impact on your generation
or transmission revenue and tariffs.
- Trading and Portfolio Management - value of transmission rights, value and risk of last resort
- spot market, optimal hedge (spot vs forward split.)
LARGE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
- Customers who prefer to take advantage a proper percentage of the spot market exposure and fixed
term contracts in order to minimize the financial impact of spot price volatility. This is prevalent
with customers with high electricity consumption cost relative to its cost of goods sold.