SmartBidder

SmartBidderTM is the leading energy bid optimization and scheduling platform for standalone, co-located, or hybrid renewable energy and storage projects. SmartBidder provides custom bid optimization in day-ahead and real-time power markets through a suite of probabilistic and AI-assisted models, incorporating forecasted nodal price dynamics, asset-specific constraints, and risk-based optimization. From fully managed to self-service, SmartBidder customers have unparalleled control and flexibility to use built-in strategies based on profit and risk tolerance or integrate their own models into the platform.

• Consistently delivers 50%+ more revenues than BESS projects in ERCOT and CAISO, delivers 90-95% of PowerVAL's Perfect Foresight scenario and 20%+ of Day Ahead TB4
• Customize to your organization’s needs: SmartBidder’s platform is an end-to-end managed solution, from forecasting to optimization to operations & automation. If preferred, customers can integrate their own analytics and price forecasts and have SmartBidder optimize around them, intervening at anytime
• 20%+ of new storage systems brought online in 2024 use SmartBidder, including more than 25 customers across four ISOs in the U.S.
• Managing 4.3GW of storage across multiple ISOs and a diverse customer mix including IPPs, IOUs, CCAs, tolling counterparties, and insurance providers
• Formulate, evaluate, and deploy multiple bidding strategies with personalized guidance from SmartBidder’s analyst team
• Weekly newsletter from Ascend’s analyst team highlighting near-term strategies for ERCOT and CAISO
• Driven by a suite of probabilistic and AI-assisted models that generate better bidding decisions, generating 25 - 289 automated and optimized bids per day for Day-Ahead and real-time markets
• Re-Optimization for Increased Returns: Supports dynamic re-optimization of bids based on continuously updating SOC and RT price forecasts to capture short duration price spikes
• Leverage SmartBidder's optimization to manage a portfolio of assets, with reporting and automation to support a growing portfolio

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