PowerLens is a web app that models European wholesale power prices, hour by hour, out to 2050 — and lets you change every assumption behind them. Ten markets, all 8,760 hours of every year, on a model you can see inside, adjust in seconds, and defend in a data room.
Built for renewable and storage investors — solar, wind and battery developers, IPPs and funds whose returns depend on the merchant price.
PowerLens clears all 8,760 hours of a year, per market, out to 2050, from a transparent stack of generation and storage. Every price traces back to the plant that set it. You set the assumptions; the engine does the rest, in seconds.
Capture rates, spreads, negative-price hours and cannibalisation — not just an annual average.
Fuel, carbon, demand, nuclear, storage — and solar / onshore / offshore wind independently.
PyPSA + HiGHS, calibrated to ENTSO-E, IRENA, Ember and Eurostat. Public data, every source cited, and the known limitations stated up front.
Every run starts from one of three ENTSO-E TYNDP 2024-aligned pathways — a defensible base case and a bracket either side of it. None of them is fixed: every input behind them is a slider you can move.
Defaults, not limits. Tilt gas, CO₂, demand, nuclear and storage inside any scenario — and scale the VRE build-out as a whole or per technology, solar, onshore and offshore wind independently. Save the result, name it, and compare it against the defaults side by side.
PowerLens models day-ahead wholesale prices — the merchant revenue that renewable and storage assets actually earn — and takes it all the way through to the investment case.
Stress-test merchant tail value and PPA pricing against a transparent, adjustable curve — not a single vendor number.
A fast, independent second opinion for screening and cross-border allocation, without the cost or lead time of a full bankable study.
Day-ahead spread and LCOS-vs-revenue margin by market and year, to identify where and when storage actually pays back.
Unlevered Monte-Carlo project distributions, per asset, ready to sit alongside your own financing model.
And who it isn't for. PowerLens models wholesale day-ahead prices only — no retail build-up (network tariffs, levies, taxes), so it is not intended for end-consumer cost analysis. It is a second opinion and a screening tool, not a lender reliance-letter curve.
Tell us the market, technology and horizon you need, and we'll return a sample hourly price curve — built on the same transparent engine.