Volt Power Analytics'
Price Forward Curves

Hourly prices variations covering the complete market dynamics

With the increased complexity of the power markets, power market participants need to be able to account for hourly price volatility in their decision-making processes. Using Volt Power Analytics’ hourly price forward curves (HPFC) enables you to make informed decisions based on a realistic hourly price variation over the future prices for the European markets.

  • Always updated
  • Fair use API access
  • Two week trial

Hourly Price Forward Curves give power market participants an advantage

Key problems that HPFCs solve

From market to operations: Exchange-traded futures exist only in weekly, monthly, or quarterly products, while assets and contracts are managed on an hourly level. HPFCs provide the necessary bridge.

Consistency and comparability: Without HPFCs, valuations rely on ad-hoc assumptions. A coherent, market-consistent curve ensures alignment across assets, portfolios, and reporting.

Realistic price shape: Power prices are shaped by demand peaks, renewables, and seasonal effects. HPFCs capture these structural patterns to produce realistic hourly prices.

Typical use cases

Asset valuation and investment: Forward-looking revenues for power plants, renewables, storage/batteries, and PPAs.

Risk management: Translating futures hedges into hourly profiles; testing exposure to shape risk.

Contract pricing: Structuring and valuing supply contracts and flexibility products.

Operations and optimization: Scheduling hydro, thermal, or storage assets using forward hourly prices.

Reporting and compliance: Producing consistent, auditable forward price scenarios for mark-to-market and financial reporting.

Features

Account for volatility

  • Future contracts for the different price areas are given an hourly profile accounting for realistic power market developments and merged into a single continuous timeseries covering day-ahead until end of 2029.

  • HPFC are updated each business day, ensuring a continuously updated hourly market price curve.

Unlock the complete market dynamics

HPFCs are created using a complete picture of the current fundamentals including hydrological conditions, interconnector availabilities, thermal availabilities, etc. This gives a realistic hourly variation across the entire curve up until 5 year ahead.

API Access

  • Streamline processes through extracting Volt Power Analytics’ HPFC directly via our API and feeding it into your systems and models

  • Compare historical versions of the HPFC and the development over time

Start a trial access

Whether you’re an existing Volt user or not, we’re able to open up access to our HPFCs. Sign up and receive your login details by submitting the form below. Get a three week trial free with no obligations to continue with a subscription after the trial period ends.