Marginal Unit | Congestion Analytics | Power Market Analytics, Redefined.
Marginal Unit’s Panorama and MUSE platforms deliver cutting-edge analytics that help users understand the past, present and future of the electricity grid to make better trading decisions. Enverus acquired Marginal Unit in June 2021.
Built to change the way you invest in power markets.
We’re your partners in the power market.
Enverus congestion modeling solutions are built to change the way traders invest in power markets. Across Enverus’ suite of user-friendly tools, users access everything needed to conquer power markets, whether they are trading FTRs/CRRs, doing virtual or point-to-point trades, scheduling generation, or making energy purchasing decisions.
Integrated power market solutions for congestion traders and near real-time generation and constraint analysis.
Panorama
Panorama is the integrated power market solution for congestion traders.
Explore the most inclusive historical, fundamental and market analysis in the industry. Discover new opportunities and understand not only what happened on the grid, but also why.
MUSE
Marginal Unit State Estimator (MUSE) delivers top-of-the-line generation and constraint analysis for the power market.
Be the first to know why new constraints bound. Translate your insights into perfectly-timed, highly-informed decisions.
Six ways to get an edge on power markets.
1. Learn new markets
High-fidelity visualizations of power systems enable you to learn about a new area of the grid, from the topology to the driving forces behind binding constraints.
2. Make better investment decisions
With the most powerful analytical software in the industry at your fingertips, you can uncover opportunities for more profitable investments.
3. Increase your trading confidence
The highest quality data and computational analysis ensures that you can be more confident in your trading and scheduling decisions than ever before.
4. Be more efficient
We do all of the data processing and heavy computational analysis for you, and store our insights in the cloud to rapidly increase response times – so you can do your job faster than ever before.
5. Become more economical
Instant access to functional, automatically-updated, and easily-integrated solutions means you don’t need to spend time and money developing tools internally.
6. Enjoy a flawless user experience
Intuitive design and easy-to-follow data flows make our tools incredibly user-friendly and quick to master, while also being capable of performing incredibly deep analysis.
Panorama Key Features
Panorama empowers quick, efficient analysis by providing the clearest and most comprehensive map at the bus level to visually explore the grid and congestion drivers.
Lightning fast analysis
Our high-performance power-flow engine analyzes thousands of scenarios in seconds. It eliminates time-consuming elements of analysis required by other tools, allowing you to perform analysis up to 80% faster than the industry average.
Efficiency in a single platform
Everything needed for analysis is available in one integrated platform. Panorama increases workflow efficiency by removing the need to jump between tools, and will quickly become integral to your daily routine.
Increased confidence
Our unparalleled bus level visualization allows for incredible granularity when developing your investment strategies. Track cause and effect at the lowest level, and uncover unique insights to reach new levels of confidence in your trades.
Our cloud-based power-flow engine analyzes thousands of scenarios in a matter of seconds to help you swiftly uncover opportunities in minutes that could take hours via alternative methods.
Understand the competition
The built-in Portfolio Performance viewer includes P&L data for all FTR market participants down to the constraint level, to reveal where your competition is generating their best returns, and help you plan how to get ahead.
Test-drive any portfolio
Upload existing or custom portfolios to analyze their risk exposure and P&L against both historical constraints and future scenarios, helping you make the best investment decisions for your portfolio.
Learn new markets
Visualization and flow of an entire ISO region helps rapidly build an understanding of the topology and common constraints. If you’re trading in a new market, Panorama is the fastest way to learn it.
Perform custom analysis
Access to our easy to integrate API suite allows you to run custom analyses and automate workflows.
MUSE Key Features
Be the first to know why new constraints bound. Translate your insights into perfectly-timed, highly-informed decisions.
318+ GW Generation
660+ Power Plants
1300+ Constraints
With one click, MUSE provides congestion analysis that would otherwise take an analyst days to compile.
For Virtual & PTP Traders
Make quick, confident Nodal and Hub trading decisions, and gain an intuitive understanding of the DART using the industry’s only near real-time, comprehensive analysis of congestion drivers and generation output. MUSE’s live monitoring of thousands of constraints and generation output data gives you a crystal-clear, bird’s eye view of the grid.
For Asset Managers
MUSE’s unique auto analytics break down congestion’s effect on your LMPs – for both the Day-Ahead and Real-Time markets. Know exactly how competing plants are operating. Make optimal scheduling and purchasing decisions with MUSE’s interactive, industry-leading generation coverage map.
For Cash & Exchange Traders
MUSE brings just-in-time analytics to the world of real-time trading. Understand whether price shifts are being driven by variations in load, generation, or transmission outages before placing a trade.
Superior Coverage
Identify more numerous and less-obvious investment opportunities with market-leading generator and constraint coverage across ERCOT, PJM, and SPP.
Instant ISO Updates
Prepare for market volatility by having up-to-date information at your fingertips via automatic updates from our proprietary state estimator.
Competitive Advantage
Get ahead of your competition with rapid, accurate, and actionable insights from our instant decomposition analysis.
New Standard in Shift Factors
Identify the best nodes and paths to trade for a given constraint with dynamic physical shift factors that utilize the same methodology as the ISOs.
Learn New Markets
Immediately understand the topology that drives the market, through our high-fidelity, geographically-accurate, and fully interactive map. Drill into specific generators, constraints, and transmission outages to quickly identify their measurable impact on power flows and prices.
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