Commodities Markets
SNL Energy provides comprehensive coverage of North American energy commodities. SNL’s power, natural gas, and coal indexes are endorsed by the Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO) and approved by the FERC for use in contract settlements. In addition to our proprietary indexes, SNL gathers pricing from wholesale electricity, natural gas and derivatives providers. Use our interactive online platform to access standardized prices for power, natural gas, coal, oil, emissions and uranium for the U.S. and Canadian markets.
SNL covers Day-Ahead, Hour-Ahead and hourly Real-Time LMP prices as well as hourly and forecasted loads from all North American ISOs. Gain instant access to nodal, zonal and hub price points across the U.S. and Canada. We also gather the congestion and line losses where available.
Integrated data, news and analytics.
SNL combines proprietary indexes, CME and ISO prices on a single platform and incorporates news and market commentary to provide robust analysis and market context. Our Excel Add-in provides immediate access to data and reports including an extensive library of customizable Excel templates used to view history, create spark spreads, generate dark spreads and compare prices over time.
More data, faster with an exclusive data accuracy guarantee.
As the leading provider of energy industry intelligence and data, SNL continually improves the process of gathering, vetting and scrubbing data. As a result, we are the only provider that guarantees data accuracy.
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Power, Natural Gas and Coal Summary pages bring together ISO data, Real-Time and Day-Ahead LMPs, Forward Prices from the CME Group, SNL Indexes and our best-in-class news and commentary. Use this page as your launching pad for more extensive commodities analysis. Download years of historical data with our easy to use Export to Excel button.
- Identify differences between real time and day ahead power pricing data
- View time series data in a tabular or graphical format
- Export the full history or a single day of data with one click






