Horizons Advisory Outlook

Comprehensive Insights Into the Future of North American Power Markets

The Horizons North American Advisory Outlook offers a forward-looking view of 78 North American power markets, providing a comprehensive analysis of energy, fuel, capacity, renewable energy, shadow prices, emissions pricing, and ancillary services. The Horizons Advisory Outlook includes assumptions for resource expansion and retirement options, with forecasts extending out to 2050. The results span nine scenarios, each considering different market conditions and policy impacts, ranging from maintaining the current policy and technology landscape to exploring variations in natural gas production and CO2 limitations, the introduction of a national carbon tax, and fluctuations in energy demand driven by economic growth or enhanced energy efficiency. Each scenario provides unique insights into how different factors might influence power markets, offering a robust framework for understanding potential outcomes.

You can further enhance the Horizons Advisory Outlook to provide nodal-level forecasts, capturing the locational differences in costs because of congestion and transmission losses as part of the Horizons Advisory LMP Service.

Extensively researched, benchmarked, and analyzed, the Horizons Advisory Outlook is delivered as data, detailed reports, interactive dashboards, and a live presentation explaining the assumptions, scenarios, methodology, and results for each scenario.

Horizons scenarios

The Horizons Advisory Outlook is released twice per year, with extensively researched market updates, such as:

  • Demand forecasts
  • Fuel prices
  • Retirements and resource expansions
  • Environmental and renewable portfolio standard policies
  • Transmission limit updates
  • Inflation

The Horizons Advisory Outlook is ideal for:

  • Asset valuation
  • Integrated resource planning
  • Environmental and public policy analysis
  • Market intelligence