Market Moves September

Market Moves: September Updated October 2, 2007

Genscape physically monitors approximately 300 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 1348 plant alerts for the month of September.

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 September:

Date	Plant	Event	Reaction	Region
9/30/2007	Palo Verde-3	Shutdown for maintenance.	Palo Verde on-peak prices rose to the mid-$50s /MWh.	WECC
9/25/2007	Beaver Valley-1	Shutdown for refueling.	Dailies traded in the high $50s /MWh and low $60s /MWh.	RFC
9/25/2007	Peach Bottom-3	Shutdown for refueling.	Dailies traded in low $60s /MWh.	RFC
9/13/2007	Big Brown-2	Shutdown for boiler tube leak.	Dailies traded in the mid $40s /MWh.	ERCOT
9/11/2007	North Anna-1	Shutdown for refueling and maintenance.	Dailies traded in the upper $80s /MWh.	ERCOT

*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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