IHS CERA North American Power

North American Power
Advisory Service helps CERA members discover opportunities and mitigate risk in the continental power market. Our experts combine their cutting-edge knowledge of market drivers and political and regulatory trends to give the latest, most accurate picture of the North American power landscape.

As a subscriber, you will be able to:

• Receive the latest on fundamentals:
  • Regional Market Briefings
• Receive our strategic reports on the Big Questions, for example:
  • How will the renewable power investment landscape change?
  • Are there game-changing technologies on the horizon?
• Download key industry statistics and outlooks from our Data Center:
  • Updated and historical and projected figures for price, supply, demand, production capacity, and many more
• Call our research staff to interpret complex data and find answers to uncommon questions.

North American Power
Advisory Service enables you to:

• Understand changing economics, demand patterns, power markets, technologies, new players, and emerging business models
• Make long-term investments in new generation choices that are well-matched to the evolving policy landscape
• Adjust company policies to new federal, state, and provincial CO2,renewables and efficiency programs and regulations
• Assess the impact of regional power, fuel, and environmental allowance markets on competitiveness with the aim of setting your corporate point of view

Subscribers to North American Power advisory service receive:

Fundamentals reports:

• Regional Market Briefings:
  • Biannual
  • Short- to medium-term regional market developments
  • Projected on-peak and off-peak power prices and spark spreads on a monthly basis
  • Projected yearly capacity and reserve margins
  • Includes these markets:
    • Northeast Power Market (including Ontario)
    • South Power Market
    • Midwest Power Market
    • ERCOT Power Market
    • WECC Power Market (including British Columbia, Alberta)

Strategic reports:

• Private Reports and Decision Briefs based on research driven by the Advisory Service's Big Questions. Corporate leaders, investors, policymakers and energy users rely on our answers to these questions to guide decisions that shape the industry's strategic future.

Data center:

• Quarterly updated five-year supply, demand and price forecasts for both US and regional power, emissions and coal markets
• Basic industry-level historical data

Phone access to research staff

Event invitations:

• Exclusive client-IHS CERA expert gatherings
• Seats at IHS CERA spring and fall Executive Roundtables
• CERAWeek, IHS CERA Executive Conference, held annually in Houston - for an additional fee

Subscribers receive Private Reports and Decision Briefs based on research driven by the Advisory Service's Big Questions, including:

• What will a US federal greenhouse gas policy look like, and what are the impacts?
• What is the trend of long-term power demand growth?
• How will transmission expand?
• How will the renewable power investment landscape change?
• Where are retail power prices heading?
• What kind of generation capacity will be built?
• Are there game-changing technologies on the horizon?
• What is the outlook for regional power markets?
• What will be the winning business models and company strategies?

Research agenda

Subscribers also receive access to our extensive research archives, available in English, Russian and Chinese, including:

• How Much New Coal Power in North America? Balancing Politics and Economics. Decisions on coal-fired power generation have always been driven by a delicate balance between changing and interacting economics and politics. Political opposition to coal-fired generation has intensified in North America owing to concerns about carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The economic competitiveness of new coal power relative to combined-cycle gas turbine power has become murky and overshadowed by the unfavorable politics, resulting in a slowdown in new coal capacity development.

• US Carbon Trading Goes Live: The Northeast's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The RGGI is the first cap-and-trade program in the United States to set mandatory CO2 limits for the power sector. Stretching from Maryland to Maine, RGGI caps power sector CO2 emissions at past levels beginning in 2009 and requires a 10 percent reduction by 2018. Although electric power generators already have experience with cap-and-trade programs for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, RGGI represents the birth of a new paradigm for managing emissions from the US power sector.

• Feed-in Tariffs' Potential Role in US Renewable Power Development. The strong interest in expanding the use of renewable energy technologies could soon lead to adoption in the United States of feed-in tariffs—a policy tool used in other countries. Feed-in tariffs encourage renewable energy development by providing long-term power purchase contracts at fixed-rate payments. The influence of European-style feed-in tariffs is evident across the United States as state regulators examine whether to adopt them or to incorporate aspects of them to make existing renewable energy policies more effective.

• From the Pump to the Plug: What Is the Potential of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles? Electric vehicles have had a long and unsuccessful history in North America. The story of transportation fuel has instead been about the hegemony of petroleum. However, growing concerns about climate change and fears about the long-term stability of the world oil market have intensified the search for a scalable technology that shifts the vehicle fleet away from oil. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles have potential in this regard.

• Research archive
• Research archive (Chinese Version)
• Research archive (Russian Version)

• Regional Power Market Fundamentals
• Fuel market fundamentals
• Political/regulatory trends
• Economic growth
• Technology trends