Clearly defined and transparent methodologies are the backbone of Platts’ price assessment processes. Platt’s methodologies provide detailed descriptions and explanations of how we assess the market value of commodities so that customers and other interested parties understand those processes. In this section, we post documentation by commodity and region for all published price assessments and indices.
Uranium methodology (as of November 2009)
European Power Methodology (as of October 2009)
North American Electricity Markets Methodology (as of December 2008)
Platts - ICE Forward Curve -- Electricity (North America) (as of November 2008)
Emissions Methodology (as of November 2008)
Platts spark spreads methodology (as of September 2008)
M2M Power (as of April 2005)
Platts Emissions Daily: code list (as of May 2009)
Platts Energy Trader: code list (as of May 2009)
Platts European Power Daily: code list (as of May 2009)
Platts Megawatt Daily: code list (as of May 2009)
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