Contracts for Difference (CfD) Market Service
Win your next auction with independent CfD clearing price forecasts. Integrated market modelling and auction intelligence help you optimise your bid strategy and secure government support.
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Why should you subscribe?
Securing a Contract for Difference (CfD) is competitive. Our CfD Market Service gives you the edge by combining fundamental power price modelling with market-leading auction analysis.
Your subscription includes comprehensive market reports and accompanying databooks, offering you:
Tender rules overview: Auction rules overview covering eligibility requirements, auction parameters, key commercial considerations, delivery requirements, and "Lessons Learnt" analysis from previous allocation rounds
Competitor Pipeline: Detailed assumptions on the project pipeline (archetype or project level) expected to compete in the tender, helping you understand who you are bidding against and expected competitiveness
Auction Forecasts: An independent view of the CfD auction in the relevant technology group, providing a crucial market benchmark of expected clearing prices and projects, as well as a low and high scenario
Detailed dataset: Project or archetype-level bid data provided in Excel, allowing you to benchmark your project’s CAPEX, OPEX and bid against our analysis to refine your entry price
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which markets are covered?
Baringa's CfD Market Services are available in the following markets:
Europe: Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania
Asia-Pacific: Australia, Japan, Philippines.
We are regularly adding in new markets. Reach out to request a specific market.
What if I need something more bespoke?
We can support you with bespoke strategies for renewable energy auctions and complementary technologies with our integrated market modelling and auction analysis tools. We regularly support clients with:
- Bespoke sensitivities: Tailored runs of our auction model adapted to fit your house view or stress-testing key uncertainties in the process.
- Asset-specific modelling and analysis: We help evaluate asset-specific revenue projections, powered by our fundamental market model and power price projections, analysing energy, capacity, balancing mechanism, and balancing services markets holistically.
- Preparing for the auction: We can support you with supply chain strategy, application review, financial modelling, in the definition of your bid strategy and in the clearance of your internal governance process.
- Bid support workshops: To support your auction bids, we run war-gaming workshops with your team, as well as stochastic simulations of the upcoming auction to identify strategies for maximising your probability of a favourable outcome.
- Optimal route-to-market strategy: As auctions are only one of many potential route-to-market strategies for a project, we help you assess the risk-reward trade-offs between participating in the auction and options, for example, for renewable projects this analysis focuses on the potential trade-offs between auctions, PPAs, and financing projects on a merchant basis.
- Policy advocacy: We provide qualitative and quantitative evidence and support your engagement with policy-makers to ensure that auction design and wider regulatory framework create a sustainable investment environment.
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Can I access the assumptions and methodology behind the forecasts?
Yes. Subscribers receive detailed documentation explaining the modelling approach, assumptions, inputs and scenario logic used to produce forecasts, enabling greater transparency and confidence in decision making.
Why should I choose Baringa?
We understand power markets inside and out: Our team brings up to date insights on market structure, trends and regulations across key markets, as well as effective platform business models, ensuring our advice is grounded in real market dynamics
Our assumptions and methodologies are transparent and consistent: Our globally consistent assumptions are informed by market experts around the world using robust analytical frameworks to inform bankable projections.
Our global coverage is underpinned by local market expertise: We have deep and unparalleled coverage
Our market insights are bankable and proven: Our proprietary price projections underpin over $70bn in transactions annually, and are a relied upon single source of truth for investors, lenders and management teams