Customer Stories

Streamlining Congestion Analysis for Faster and Smarter Trades

Boost trading efficiency with Enverus Mosaic—integrated market data, automated congestion insights and accurate forecasts. Achieve 20% higher profits and faster decision-making.

Success at a Glance

Challenges

  • Tight deadlines to make market decisions
  • Inefficiencies from fragmented data sources
  • Slow congestion diagnosis due to reactive analysis

Solutions

  • Integrated market data for seamless trading workflows
  • Automated insights for faster congestion analysis
  • Accurate forecasts to optimize trading strategies

Results

  • 20% higher profits and 4x more CRR megawatts cleared
  • Faster market analysis, saving hours weekly
  • Enhanced real-time congestion insights for competitive trading

Client Overview

The client is a power-focused fund specializing in real-time and day-ahead markets, leveraging speculative trading strategies across multiple ISOs. The firm actively participates in virtual trading, point-to-points and cash power products, optimizing risk-adjusted returns while navigating increasingly complex grid dynamics.

Challenges

Missing Opportunities in Real-Time Trading

Navigating the competitive landscape of real-time and day-ahead trading required traders to process vast amounts of market data quickly. The team faced many day-to-day challenges:

Time constraints: Traders had to analyze multiple ISOs in a compressed timeframe, often managing tight deadlines for market decisions.

Fragmented data sources: Understanding grid congestion required pulling data from multiple platforms and third-party weather vendors, leading to inefficiencies.

Reactive analysis: Identifying market constraints in real-time required switching between various tools, making it difficult to quickly diagnose the cause of congestion and forecast future trends.

Solutions

By adopting Enverus Mosaic, the fund significantly streamlined its real-time monitoring and day-ahead trading workflows. Mosaic consolidated key market data, eliminating the need to toggle between multiple platforms by providing a single, integrated view of real-time generation, transmission outages and congestion drivers. With more than 2x the coverage on plant monitoring and the only realtime constraint driver decomposition in the market, the platform’s automated insights accelerated constraint analysis, allowing traders to quickly diagnose congestion events and make informed decisions. The software’s sub-hourly frequency updates provided rapid, actionable trade opportunities, which cut down analysis time by 75% compared to previous methods, helping traders find the best trades faster and optimize virtual trading strategies.

Mosaic also provided industry-leading load forecasts, setting the standard for accuracy for 25+ years, and paired them with grid analytics that ensured reliability and minimized costs. With insights into how load, renewables generation, outages and congestion were impacting prices, traders could forecast market trends more confidently. This was crucial for maximizing pricing opportunities and capitalizing on the evolving power grid dynamics.

Results

The adoption of Mosaic led to substantial efficiency gains for the fund. Traders experienced faster market analysis, saving hours weekly; a key factor for meeting 10:00 a.m. market deadlines. The enhanced real-time congestion analysis transformed the firm’s real-time trading process, giving traders the speed, clarity and insights needed to stay competitive in an evolving power market.

With Enverus Power and Renewables solutions, clients have achieved 20% higher trading profits, cleared 4x more CRR megawatts, optimized trade execution and reduced reliance on third-party data sources.

Customer

Power Trading Fund

Industry

Power & Renewables

Company Size

1-100

Location

North America

Product Featured

MUSE, ISO Net Demand, Fused Demand and Renewables

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