Volt Power Analytics'
Price Forward Curves

Hourly price variations covering full market dynamics

With increasing complexity in power markets, market participants must account for hourly price volatility in their decision-making processes. Volt Power Analytics’ Hourly Price Forward Curves (HPFC) enable informed decision-making based on realistic hourly price variation across forward price expectations in European power 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 operate on an hourly basis. HPFCs provide the necessary bridge between forward markets and operational decision-making.

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

Realistic price shape: Power prices are driven by demand patterns, renewable generation, and seasonal effects. HPFCs capture these structural dynamics to produce realistic hourly prices.

Access the data with ease: Connect and retrieve your data effortlessly with built-in API access. No extra setup, no additional costs — just straightforward integration that lets you start making calls right away.

Typical use cases

Asset valuation and investment: Forward-looking revenue assessments for power plants, renewables, storage and battery systems, and power purchase agreements (PPAs).

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

Contract pricing: Supporting the structuring and valuation of supply contracts and flexibility products.

Operations and optimization: Scheduling hydropower, thermal generation, or storage assets using forward-looking hourly price signals.

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

Features

Account for market volatility

  • Future contracts across different price areas are transformed into hourly price profiles that reflect realistic power market developments and are merged into a single continuous time series covering the period from day-ahead until end of 2029.
  • HPFC are updated each business day, ensuring a continuously refreshed hourly market price curve.

Unlock market dynamics for Europe

Access

HPFCs are constructed using a complete picture of current market fundamentals. This gives realistic hourly price variation across the entire forward curve for up to five year ahead.

API Access

  • Streamline processes by extracting Volt Power Analytics’ HPFC directly via our API and feeding them into your internal systems and models.
  • Compare historical versions of the HPFCs and analyse their 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.