Advanced market simulation and forecasting solutions that help power industry leaders make confident decisions with unprecedented accuracy.
Two powerful products delivering comprehensive energy market intelligence and forecasting
Market Simulation Platform
Our flagship cloud-based tool for creating, running, and analyzing market price simulations for IRPs. Simulates hourly power dispatch and flows across WECC with real weather data integration.
Short-term Forecasting
Short-term predictive analytics providing early alerts about meaningful shifts in demand and renewables—before they show up in prices.
Market Simulation Platform
GridOptix is our flagship cloud-based platform that empowers you to create, run, and analyze sophisticated market price simulations with unprecedented speed and accuracy. This powerful tool simulates power dispatch and flows across the entire WECC region, delivering the data you need to run a stellar IRP portfolio analysis.
Hub prices, RPS compliance, carbon production, and resource adequacy metrics
Correlate weather inputs across models for coherent and credible IRP portfolio analysis
Detailed simulation of cascading hydro projects with streamflows and storage
Massive savings in team time and computational resources through optimized simulation engines
Hourly dispatch decisions reflect actual system conditions—fuel, transmission, ramp-rates, storage, and policy—driving more realistic simulation
Short-term Forecasting Platform
In fast-moving energy markets, timing is everything. Kennix delivers early intelligence about meaningful shifts in demand and renewables — alerting you to critical changes before they impact market prices. Make confident decisions with advance warning of market movements.
Forecast coverage across all Balancing Authorities with aggregated views up to the entire WECC region
Detect meaningful shifts in demand and renewable generation patterns before they influence market pricing
Real-time insights into demand patterns, renewable output fluctuations, and grid conditions that drive market dynamics
Explore detailed hourly changes in net demand for your selected trade, across the last 72 hours — perfect for spotting patterns before they become price drivers
See which areas are tightening or loosening with an intuitive map that highlights shifts in demand across the entire WECC footprint
Real-world experience meets cutting-edge technology
At Semaphore Energy, we draw on extensive experience in modeling, trading, and forecasting US power markets, enhanced by cutting-edge AI assistance and advanced software engineering practices.
Our team brings real-time experience as traders, system operators, and hydro operators, giving us first-hand knowledge of how the system really works, combined with deep expertise in the latest AI tools and technologies.
We believe that models are most useful when they are easy to understand. We handle the complexity so that you can focus on making informed decisions.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”- often attributed to Einstein
Built on three core principles that make energy market intelligence actionable
We pursue perfect clarity on the problem, underlying assumptions, and crystal-clear actionable conclusions that empower decision making.
Our models run blazingly fast, enabling rapid iteration, refinement, and evolution so you can respond to market changes quickly.
We strive for simplicity. Simple solutions are easier to understand and therefore strikingly more useful for confident decision making.