Market Moves May - Genscape

Market Moves: May Updated June 2, 2008

Genscape physically monitors approximately 340 of the most significant power plants and transmission paths throughout the United States. When a plant ramps up or trips, that information sounds an alert on your desktop within 45 to 90 seconds of its occurrence.

Genscape Power North America sent out 1412 plant alerts for the month of May.

These alerts indicate that a plant has dropped or raised production past a certain reasonable level. Genscape also transmits color alerts on many plant outages, defining the cause of the event as well as the forecast for a return to production.

Listed below is a sample of the market events Genscape caught in May:

Date	Plant	Event	Reaction	Region
5/27/2008	Millstone-2	Shutdown automatically following a lighting storm.	Gains were between $8 and $10/MWh.	NPCC
5/7/2008	Millstone-2 and Seabrook	Millstone-2 and Seabrook remain shutdown for maintenance.	Mass Hub prices were as high as $200/MWh.	NPCC
5/6/2008	Sequoya-1 and Hatch-2	Sequoya-1 and Hatch-2 shutdown for refueling and maintenance.	Into Southern next-day on-peak prices were up $10 into the mid-$70s/MWh.	SERC

*as reported in various market sources

Genscape delivered alerts instantly as the events unfolded, arming our customers with the market’s most timely and accurate output information.

Genscape also allows customers to take in the data through a .csv or XML based feed to run proprietary or third party analytic software. Whatever system you use, Genscape can create value for you and your team.

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