NrgStream Services Data Portfolio
Our advanced data collection technology processes over 10 million transactions per day to bring you the most timely and accurate information in the industry. Our portfolio of over 50,000 'streams' is derived from a diverse variety of energy publishing sources and information feeds. We activate and normalize our streams to turn a labyrinth of documents into your wealth of useful information.

Our data portfolio as listed below is available through all NrgStream solutions.
  • NrgStream Trader, Professional
  • NrgStream Professional
  • NrgStream Xtractor
  • Formatted daily summaries delivered free via email
Our advanced systems allow us to deploy specific energy markets or proprietary streams on request to any online customer account. If there are stream categories listed below that you require access to through your NrgStream account, simply give us a call and we can deploy them to your account on demand.

Our on-line solutions provide dynamic and historical access to all streams listed with features like charting, panels, instant alerts, user defined spreads and market decision events.

We can create streams from almost any internet publishing source or information feed. This capability includes quick development of private feeds from sources like advanced web meter systems and SCADA sources. Let us know if there are new information sources that you want to monitor and we will model them into our systems and make them available to you.
 
Contact us for a detailed data dictionary or review the list below for a summary of available stream categories.

MARKET COVERAGE

Alberta Power Markets
The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) brings together two former entities, the Power Pool of Alberta and the Transmission Administrator of Alberta. The AESO facilitates Alberta’s hourly wholesale electricity market, which has more than 200 participants and $5 billion in annual energy transactions, and is accountable for the overall coordination of provincial load settlement.

Data Provided:
• AESO prices – real-time, hourly and forecast prices
• AESO supply – real-time net generation and reserves by unit, summary levels by generation type, various aggregates
• AESO demand – real-time, hourly and forecast demand
• AESO transmission – real-time actual flows, forecast ATC, TTC
• AESO Ancillary services - Active and standby reserve OTC transactions
• AESO Real-time market and system condition bulletins
• Bonneville Power/BCHydro ties, ATC, TTC, Flows
• Pacific North West Hydro Generation
Update Frequency: Real-time
Available History: Most streams include history from Jan 1, 1999.

California ISO (CAISO)
California ISO ensures equal access to 25,526 circuit miles of transmission lines and conducts open and fair markets that are used as a last resort to balance the system.

Data Provided:
• California prices – dispatched, settled and hourly average prices by zone, discontinued expost pricing by zone also on-line
• California demand – actual, hour ahead and forecast
• California supply – actual hourly generation by zone, hour ahead import and export by zone, forecast supply, import, export and outages`
• California transmission – ATC’s and scheduled flows on all tie-lines
• Ancillary prices - (day ahead final, interim and hour ahead) for spinning, non-spinning, regulation and replacement MCP’s all by zone
• Ancillary capacity results - (day ahead final, interim and hour ahead) by zone
• Bonneville Power/BCHydro ties, ATC, TTC, Flows
• Pacific North West Hydro Generation
Update Frequency: Real-time
Available History: Most coverage is continuous from 1999 with coverage changes in conjunction with market restructuring.

Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is entrusted to keep electric power flowing to approximately 20 million Texas customers – representing 85 percent of the state’s electric load and about 75 percent of the Texas land area. ERCOT manages the scheduling of power on an electric grid consisting of 70,000 megawatts of active generation capacity and 38,000 miles of transmission lines. ERCOT also manages financial settlement for the hundreds of market participants in Texas’s deregulated wholesale bulk power and administers customer switching.

With the transition to a nodal market in late 2008, we are comitted to ensure coverage of all available market information.

Data Provided:
• Pricing – Balancing MCP and ancillary MCPC by zone
• Transmission – DC tie flows, CSC/CRE flows, regional scheduled impacts
• Demand – Scheduled, actual and forecast loads, system frequency, forecast and actual loads by station
• Emergency notifications
• Generation – scheduled generation by region, actual generation
• Regional minimum and maximum temperatures
• Day ahead ancillary services(procured, bid and required) for NSRS, RegDwn, RegUp and RRS
Update Frequency: Real-time
Available History: Coverage is continuous from 2002 with some changes due to restructuring.

Midwest ISO (MISO)
The Midwest ISO was founded on Feb. 12, 1996, and was specifically configured to comply with FERC's concept of an independent organization that will ensure the smooth regional flow of electricity in a competitive wholesale marketplace.

Data Provided:
• MISO Pricing - all real-time, hourly and day ahead gennode, interface and hub pricing by company node
• MISO Demand – Real-time and forecast load
• MISO Generation – offered, outages and unavailable generation
• MISO market messages
Update Frequency: Real-time
Available History: Coverage from April 2005.

New England ISO (ISONE)
ISO New England is a regional transmission organization (RTO), serving Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. ISO New England manages the bulk electric power system and wholesale markets.

Data Provided:
• Pricing – real-time and hourly LMP, Congestion and Loss components by node – Day ahead pricing by node
• Demand – real-time, hourly and forecast demand, regional demands for CONVEX
• Transmission – real-time and forecast flows for all major ties
Update Frequency: Real-time
Available History: Coverage from 1999 depending on the stream. Major enhancements during 2003.

New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)
Description: NYISO is a non-profit organization formed in 1998 as part of the restructuring of New York State's electric power industry. Its mission is to ensure the reliable, safe and efficient operation of the State's major transmission system and to administer an open, competitive and nondiscriminatory wholesale market for electricity in New York State.

Data Provided:
• Pricing – Real-time LBMP by zone, Time weighted integrated LBMP, Hour and Day ahead market LBMP by zone; Ancillary services – non sync, spinning & operating reserve and regulation by region
• Generation – hour ahead generation scheduled and bid – imports and exports scheduled and bid
• Transmission – interface flows for all major ties
• Demand – real-time and 6 day forecast loads by zone
• Real-time events and market messages
Update Frequency: Real-time
Available History: Most data is available from the beginning of 2000.

Independent Electricy System Operator (IESO) - Ontario Power Markets
The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) works at the heart of Ontario's power system, connecting all participants - generators that produce electricity, transmitters that send it across the province, retailers that buy and sell it, industries and businesses that use it in large quantities and local distribution companies that deliver it to people's homes. The IESO operators the wholesale electricity market in Ontario. IESO data now include Day-Ahead Commitment Process data.

ISO Data Supplied:
• Ontario Day-Ahead Commitment Process Day-Ahead Energy, 10 minute non-spinning and 30 minute reserve prices by zone
• Ontario Pricing – real-time Energy, 10 minute non-spinning and 30 minute reserve prices by zone, hourly dispatch and pre-dispatch prices
• Ontario Demand – real-time non-constrained and constrained dispatched and pre-dispatched demand, regional hourly demands, regional annual forecasts
• Ontario Supply
• Generation capacity by generator
• Hourly generation by generator
• Outages, capacity and generation by type
• Total energy, reserves, capacity, shortfalls and imports
• Historic monthly statistics by generator
• Reserve / Shortfall dispatch and pre-dispatch by generator for 10 minute non-spinning, remaining reserve, reserve required, reserve shortfalls, scheduled reserve and spinning reserve
• Ontario Transmission – interface flows, scheduled import, export and net for all interconnecting ties
• Ontario system dispatch notes and market messages
• New Brunswick Transmission scheduled and actual flows and demand
Update Frequency: Real-time
Available History: Most data is available from May 2002.

PJM Interconnection (PJM)
PJM ensures the reliability of the largest centrally dispatched electric grid in the world by coordinating the movement of electricity in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. PJM, acting neutrally and independently, operates the largest competitive wholesale electricity market in the world.

Data Provided:
• Prices – 5 minute, hourly and day ahead LMP’s for hubs, interfaces, zones and the over 7000 price nodes
• Demand – real-time loads by region, historical loads by zone
• Generation – historic total generation, forecast/scheduled outages
• Transmission – scheduled and actual flows for internal and external interfaces
• Emergency procedure messages
Update Frequency: Real-time
Available History: Available from 2001 for most data items.

Pacific Northwest and Bonneville Power Authority
The Pacific Northwest region includes BC, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and the portion of Montana west of the Continental Divide. The Pacific Northwest derives the bulk of its energy needs from the abundance of Hydroelectric Power Generation in the area.

The Bonneville Power Administration, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Energy. BPA serves the Pacific Northwest through operating an extensive electricity transmission system and marketing wholesale electrical power at cost from federal dams, one non-federal nuclear plant and other nonfederal hydroelectric and wind energy generation facilities. BPA aims to be a national leader in providing high reliability, low rates consistent with sound business principles, responsible environmental stewardship and accountability to the region.

Data Provided:
• Hydro information
• Various Demand and Loads
• Snowtel and Water Levels
• BPA and BC Hydro interties, flows, ATC, TTC

Update Frequency: Real-time
Available History: Most streams available on or before January 2006

Southeast Power (SERC)
SERC Reliability Corporation
Data Provided:
• Hourly Native and Territorial forecast and actual loads
• Daily Native and Territorial forecast and actual loads
Update Frequency: Daily
Available History: Available from June 2007

Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
The Southwest Power Pool
Data Provided:
• Dail Peak Load
• Hourly Locational Imbalance Prices (LIP)
• SWPA Hourly estimated generation
Update Frequency: Real-time, Daily
Available History: Available from January 2006

EXCHANGE COVERAGE

ICE
Intercontinental Exchangeฎ (ICEฎ) operates the leading electronic global futures and OTC marketplace for trading energy commodity contracts. ICE conducts its markets for futures trading through its subsidiary, ICE Futures, Europe's leading energy futures and options exchange.
Data Provided:
• Power Settlements
Update Frequency: Daily
Available History: Available from January 2001 with coverage added as new instruments come on-line

NGX
The Natural Gas Exchange (NGX). The NGX exchange has now outsourced all on-line trading to the ICE exchange. As a result of this transition, trading data is now longer available excepting through the WEBICE application. We will continue to monitor this situation to bring you the most current data available.
Data Provided:
• Power and Gas Settlements for all instruments and hubs
Update Frequency: Daily Settlements
Available History: Available from February 2002 with coverage added as new instruments and hubs come on-line

NYMEX
The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange and the preeminent trading forum for energy and precious metals. The Exchange pioneered the development of energy futures and options contracts 26 years ago as means of bringing price transparency and risk management to this vital market.
Data Provided:
• Daily NYMEX Futures and OTC markets
Update Frequency: Daily
Available History: Available from January 2003 with coverage added as new instruments come on-line

BROKER COVERAGE / FORWARDS

GFI / Amerex Indicative Data
Amerex Energy, founded in 1978, is a world leader in providing over-the-counter energy brokerage. Amerex provides brokerage services in electricity, natural gas, crude oil, petroleum products, coal, gas liquids, emission credits and allowances as well as freight brokerage and logistical services.

Data Provided:
• All Power contracts
• All Natural Gas contracts
Update Frequency: Daily
Available History: Most contracts go back to 1998

Tullet Prebon Indicative Data
Tullet Prebon's energy product line provides power marketers, utilities, producers, risk managers and institutions with a single comprehensive source for price information and liquidity. The Tullett Prebon energy brokerage teams furnish insight and expertise information to virtually every sector of the market, providing customers with information, anonymity and access to liquidity.

Data Provided:
• All Power contracts
• All Natural Gas contracts
Update Frequency: Daily
Available History: Most contracts go back to 2007. Additional history is available through Prebon on request.

VALUE ADD PACKAGES

Industrial Information Resources (IIR)
Industrial Information Resources (IIR) Generation Outage information includes over 28,000 Future, Current, and Historical Outages represented at 4,100 North American power plants (IOU’s, PEP’s & IEP’s). Forced and planned unit outages are identified and delivered daily from a database of over 13,000 units.

Data Provided:
• Generation Outage Forecasts include Total, Planned, Un-planned, and Details

Update Frequency: Daily
Available History: From 1998 forward. Additional coverage is available through IIR on request.

Pattern Recognition Technologies (PRT)
PRT, Inc. is an industry leader in providing load and price forecasting software and online services for the energy industry. Since 1994, PRT’s experienced staff of engineers with advanced degrees has been continually perfecting the forecasting accuracy level of its products and services. With over eighty clients, PRT’s highly accurate forecasting systems are among the most widely used in the industry. PRT’s products are based on the state-of-the-art intelligent system technologies such as artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computing/genetic algorithms. 

Data Provided:
• Load & Price forecasts for major power markets & ISOs

Update Frequency: Hourly
Available History: Most locations go back to 2004

EarthSat Energy Weather
Launched in 1990, at the dawn of natural gas deregulation, MDA is the premier source for industry-sensitive energy weather information. MDA products appeal to anyone who must manage and minimize their energy risk. 

Data Provided:
• Actual and forecasted MIN. and MAX temperatures

Update Frequency: Twice Daily
Available History: Most locations go back to 1998

ADDITIONAL BASE COVERAGE

NrgStream includes the following base coverage packages with every NrgStream Trader and Professional account.

Currency Exchange Rates
The Bank of Canada is the nation's central bank and provides daily currency exchange rates called the Noon Rate. Intraday exchange rates are also covered.

Data Provided:
• Daily Bank of Canada Noon Rates
• Intraday 10 minute exchange rates
Update Frequency: Real-time, Daily
Available History: Most streams include history from March 2004

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
The Energy Information Administration (EIA), created by Congress in 1977, is a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy. They provide policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses to promote sound policy making, efficient markets, and public understanding regarding energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

Data Provided:
• Weekly Natural Gas storage statistics
Update Frequency: Weekly
Available History: Most streams include history from January 1, 1994.

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
NERC’s mission is to improve the reliability and security of the bulk power system in North America. To achieve that, NERC develops and enforces reliability standards; monitors the bulk power system; assesses future adequacy; audits owners, operators, and users for preparedness; and educates and trains industry personnel. NERC is a self-regulatory organization that relies on the diverse and collective expertise of industry participants. As the Electric Reliability Organization, NERC is subject to audit by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and governmental authorities in Canada.

Data Provided:
• NERC Internal Demand and Net Energy for Load by Region and Subregion
Update Frequency: Annual
Available History: Monthly streams available from 1996 for most regions.

• NERC System Flows - Flow statistics representing major transmission lines
Update Frequency: 5 Minute
Available History: From December 2006

• NERC CRC Events - Central Repository for Security Events
Update Frequency: 5 Minute
Available History: From October 2006

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to regulate civilian use of nuclear materials. NRC is headed by a five-member Commission. The NRC's mission is to regulate the Nation's civilian use of byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to protect the environment.

Data Provided:
• Daily Reactor Unit statistics
Update Frequency: Daily
Available History: Most streams include history from January 1, 1999

Weather – National Weather Service (NWS) and Environment Canada (EC)
The National Weather Service (NWS) gathers weather data in the U.S. Environment Canada (EC) and The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) is Canada's source for meteorological information.

Data Provided:
• Actual and Forecast Temperatures and Humidity for most major cities in North America
Update Frequency: Hourly
Available History: Most streams include history from January 1, 1999

SNL Energy
SNL Financial is the premier sector-specific information and research firm in the financial information marketplace. SNL collects, standardizes and disseminates all relevant corporate, financial, market and M&A data - plus news and analysis - for the industries we cover: banking, specialized financial services, insurance, real estate, and energy.
Data Provided:
• Daily Power and Gas Indices based on surveys
• Forward price curves for various Power and Gas locations

Update Frequency: Daily
Available History: Most streams include history from March 2004
 

HISTORICAL DATA
We have been consolidating energy market information with an emphasis on de-regulated power markets from system operators, exchanges, OASIS nodes and government sources for eight years. The resulting database is one of the most detailed and comprehensive in the industry. Our technology for the collection, storage and distribution of this information has been refined since our inception to ensure a continuous flow of quality data to our customers. Our customers achieve immediate and measurable cost savings by utilizing our advanced data management and distribution solutions to support their energy trading, marketing, and risk management operations.

The capabilities and scope of our historic data offerings provide immediate benefits to many organizations. Because there is no standard for publication of market pricing, supply, demand and transmission information for electric system operators, the acquisition of this information can be cost prohibitive. The screening and normalization of this data can be very time consuming. Alternately, the development and ongoing refinement of sophisticated automated collection tools can be a risk prone and expensive endeavor. Not with NrgStream. We eliminate the risk and expense associated with this process by delivering high quality, normalized data solutions from a single easy to use source. For some streams our database represents one of the only sources of detailed historic information available.

DATA AVAILABILITY
NrgStream solutions are available world-wide. The company's physically secure Data Center houses internally redundant hardware and software systems. This facility is staffed 24/7 and provides multi-level uninterrupted backup power. Multiple backbone connectivity further facilitates server availability. NrgStream’s multi-tiered architecture includes onboard data redundancy, on-site and off-site data backup, and multi-level hardware/software data security.