Anza, a leading energy storage and solar development and supply chain platform, has officially announced the launch of three major enhancements for its Solar Pro subscription.
According to certain reports, these enhancements include a novel dataset feature which seamlessly estimates negotiated price ranges for every module on the platform.
More on that would reveal the introduction of Predicted Quote feature, along with the new Quarterly Outlook and Five-Year Monthly Forecast features, each one designed to give developers, IPPs, EPCs, and utilities unprecedented visibility into current and future module pricing. The idea here is facilitate smarter procurement, more business wins, project prioritization, and strategic planning.
Thanks to these updates, Anza will be able to leverage its unmatched supplier-provided module pricing dataset to deliver powerful, market-wide analytics.
To understand the significance of such a development, though, we must take into account how shifting macroeconomic conditions, evolving supply dynamics, and rapid policy changes are spelling the need for more comprehensive insights across solar and storage sectors.
Against that, Anza’s latest brainchild brings to your disposal an informational advantage during development, when negotiating a procurement, or at asset sale or purchase.
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the Predicated Quote feature, which happens to be a first-of-its-kind dataset, geared towards estimating the final negotiated price range for every module on the platform. This it does by leveraging real-world, anonymized customer quotes, and Anza’s supplier negotiation experience.
Markedly enough, prices are shown as a 25th–75th percentile range and refreshed regularly, giving buyers a realistic view of what they can expect to pay. Such a mechanism, like you can guess, really goes the distance to help companies gain a negotiation edge, especially module buyers, before they begin their procurements, EPCs and C&I developers when preparing client proposals, and developers when selling projects.
Next up, we have an Quarterly Outlook feature, where users can come expecting 10 quarters (2.5 years) of supplier-provided module pricing in one easy-to-use table. You see, they can sort, search, and filter the data by technical, value, and supply chain criteria, then click through to a specific module detail page.
A market-wide, always-current view of this sort makes it possible for developers and EPCs to aggressively win more business, while simultaneously enabling developers to gain a negotiation edge when selling projects and giving IPPs valuable insight for buying projects.
Module buyers can also track prices, report to leadership, and refine approved vendor lists with greater accuracy, whether they are actively purchasing or simply gathering market intelligence.
Rounding up highlights would be a five-year monthly forecast feature, which banks upon Anza’s regularly updated platform pricing, negotiated pricing history, and machine learning models to predict module prices up to five years out. Unlike competitor forecasts, Anza’s forecast is instantly accessible and current.
All in all, from a utility standpoint, the stated forecast will empower developers to plan market strategies, as well as choose the right products for future projects and interconnection applications. Not just that, it will also help IPPs make module price monitoring and reporting much more efficient.
Founded in 2021, Anza’s rise up the ranks stems from guiding solar and energy storage equipment buyers and developers to use advanced data and technology, all for the purpose of unlocking more options, reducing risk, increasing project profits, and saving massive amounts of time.
The sheer scale and reliability of company’s operations can be better understood once you consider it provides real-time pricing and extensive technical, trade risk, counterparty, and contract term data from more than 95% of the U.S. module supply.
“Anza has always provided our clients with the most current module pricing database,” said Mike Hall, CEO and co-founder of Anza. “Our new Predicted Quote feature takes this database to the next level, offering the industry’s only dataset that estimates negotiated final prices to give customers a decisive edge in winning projects and securing better deals. Together with these other new enhancements to our Solar Pro subscription, we’re helping our customers make smarter strategic decisions.”
