Lens Power & Renewables Europe, Middle East and Africa

Make sense of the complex challenges of delivering growth and decarbonisation to power markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

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Lens Power & Renewables Europe, Middle East and Africa

Make sense of the complex challenges of delivering growth and decarbonisation to power markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Actionable commercial insight and long-term strategic intelligence across the value chain

Renewables now represent most of the European power supply, redefining power markets. But headwinds from geopolitics, policy uncertainty and risk exposure abound. 

Wood Mackenzie can help. Our power research and modelling, built on deep exposure and granular market insight, will improve your understanding of decarbonising markets and fuel smarter business decisions. 

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Lens Power & Renewables Europe, Middle East and Africa statistics

Interconnected power and renewables data to support long-term planning, strategy and investment due diligence.

58,000+

power generation projects

30-year

integrated forecasts for over 29 zones

1.7 TW

total capacity in development pipeline

130

countries with asset coverage

14

countries with long-term outlooks

120,000+

competitive bid events providing visibility into 1,000+ renewable energy projects

Features and workflows

Integrated market intelligence to strengthen power market investment strategies.

Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Lens Power & Renewables Europe, Middle East and Africa:

  • A complete view of the evolving energy landscape, with fully interconnected research and analytics from source to socket
  • Detailed market commentaries and datasets – providing national and zonal-level information – with insight into hourly market dynamics, supply, demand, flows and prices
  • Industry-leading market outlooks, with integrated models that look at the price impacts of policy, economics and supply chain
  • Direct access to our analysts to stay ahead of market trends and dynamics. Delivering a quick turnaround on requests and queries, consider us an extension of your team
  • A powerful API feed providing access to both real time market data feeds and underlying forecast data to create customised solutions

Lens Power & Renewables Europe, Middle East and Africa includes the following capabilities:

Pricing fundamentals

  • Wholesale forecasts to 2060 for 15 markets and 29 zones plus sensitivities around the base case
  • PPA, ancillary and capacity market analysis
  • Historical pricing and volume data

 

Asset analysis

  • Detailed asset tracking and ownership data for over 58,000 projects
  • Historical hourly asset simulated generation

 

Market opportunity

  • Comparisons of market capacity to committed asset development
  • Customisable dashboard of asset owners and developers and their pipeline

 

Mapping capabilities

  • Detailed GIS data layers with live nodal analysis
  • Infrastructure mapping layers for siting support
  • Easy report and pitchbook creation through customised mapping filters

 

Cost analysis

  • Industry-leading (levelised cost of energy) LCOE base case and sensitivities by technology by market
  • Detailed supply chain component costs provided through our proprietary supply chain data

 

Demand forecast

  • Bottom-up demand modelling built into every power case
  • Detailed demand modifiers from EVs, hydrogen, heating electrification

Lens Power & Renewables Europe, Middle East and Africa lets you:

  • Capture the long-term impact of technology, regulations, economic growth and fuel price changes on power supply, demand and prices​
  • Access detailed market commentaries and datasets, and interact with analysts for ongoing guidance
  • Evaluate project economics as power supply-demand, market design and operations evolve
  • View captured prices for all technology types across 15 European market (and 29 pricing zones within those) – base case outlooks plus commodity and weather sensitivities
  • Benchmark the competition with fully exposed asset ownership and history for all operating and development assets
  • Utilise levelised cost of energy (LCOE) forecasts derived from capex and opex cost insights to inform project values and trends, as well as business development and supplier negotiations
  • Gain comprehensive visibility into asset-level capex and opex with a detailed cost estimating platform that enables tailored estimates based on your asset's unique characteristics
  • Develop detailed procurement strategies by breaking down highly detailed supply chain information
  • Examine regionally-specific demand component and renewable reports that go into the state of the market, with full access to our industry experts
  • Use our API to gain access to underlying forecast data to create customised solutions

Why choose Lens Power & Renewables Europe, Middle East and Africa?

Backed by 50 years of providing trusted energy advice, we offer the world’s most rigorous data, analytics and expert advisory solutions across the power industry.

Our solutions deliver:

  • Reliable, accurate cost trends that offer assurance in strategic planning, negotiations and asset management activities
  • Demand and supply outlooks driven by bottom-up analytics
  • Price curves that reflect the output of hundreds of analysts and thousands of hours of model simulations
  • Renowned and respected expertise across the globe, yielding impactful perspectives on policy, demand, development opportunities, technology trends, market reforms, grid integration, supply chain constraints and risk
  • High quality, integrated modelling, and aligned and internally consistent analysis and commercial insight through seamless collaboration between our specialist energy, chemicals and metals & mining teams

Frequently asked questions

Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Lens Power & Renewables Europe, Middle East and Africa. If you have any other questions, contact us.

Where are markets saturating and where are our competitors developing pipelines?

How is the value of my portfolio going to change over time?

What policy risks should we be on the lookout for that impact our portfolio?

How scalable is this opportunity set and what are the headwinds?

Yes. We provide a feed connecting users to our extensive datasets. Here, you can download Wood Mackenzie’s data into your own proprietary systems and BI tools, including Excel, Power BI, Spotfire and Tableau.  

Absolutely! You get direct access to our expert analysts located around the world, who have developed unrivalled knowledge of the sector and region they cover.  

Their strong, established relationships with industry contacts take our research to a more detailed level, where we can ask the right questions to get to the answers that matter. And they are always available to share their unique perspective with you.

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