Platts Electricity Alert brings real-time electric industry information to those who don't want to wait until tomorrow to get today's critical price and market data. Our large team of seasoned reporters delivers up-to-the-minute market intelligence—everything from power plant outages and supply deals to mergers and regulatory decisions that affect the North American markets.

What is Platts Electricity Alert?

News and market coverage of the North American electric power industry, including regulatory developments, by the largest editorial team dedicated to electricity reporting.
Real-time electricity spot market transactions reported as deals are done.
Regular reports on market-moving developments such as nuclear-plant outage schedules and weather.
Unbiased price indexes and ranges from the same editors of Power Markets Week and Megawatt Daily.
Up-to-the-minute market commentary and analysis identifying and explaining market movements.

Market Coverage

Real-time news - exclusive breaking stories on power deals, regulation and other market events impacting your business.
Heard in the market - latest deals and bid/ask information gathered by our price reporting team.
Market commentary and daily market assessments - daily assessments of regional markets and weekly price.
Comprehensive weather service - designed especially for electricity traders.
Complete heating degree-day forecasts for 11 regional market areas weighted by consumption and population.
Electricity production - Weekly production figures for nine regions provided by the Edison Electric Institute each Wednesday.

Additional Market Coverage
As a subscriber of Platts Electricity Alert, you have the option of adding on the forward markets to increase your coverage of the marketplace. Just by adding the Platts Forward Curves to your Electricity Alert you can get independent, systematic forwards assessments and commentary for physical electric power trading, based on actual transactions, bids and offers.

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