Who It's For

The professionals and organizations that benefit most from Energy Prices & Markets data.

Is this useful for benchmarking energy procurement costs?

Energy Prices & Markets is well suited for benchmarking energy procurement costs. The product provides monthly price assessments for 12 energy commodities across 33 countries, giving procurement teams an independent reference to compare against supplier quotes and existing contract indices.

Specific capabilities that support energy procurement benchmarking include:

Current and historical prices — track market-level prices over time to evaluate whether a contract formula has diverged from actual market conditions.
Price forecasts — available on Pro, Advanced, and Ultimate plans; support short-term procurement planning and hedging decisions in volatile energy markets.
Global Prices Comparison — available on Advanced and Ultimate plans; ranks energy commodity prices by country, enabling cross-regional benchmarking for organizations sourcing energy across multiple geographies.
Freight & Insurance Costs — available on Advanced and Ultimate plans; captures netback and netforward prices, supporting accurate landed-cost calculations.

The data is updated monthly and published as early as the 3rd business day of each month (Advanced and Ultimate plans), ensuring procurement teams have timely market-level references.

Can I use this data to manage energy price risk?

Energy Prices & Markets supports energy price risk management by providing structured price data and forward-looking forecasts that teams can incorporate into risk analysis workflows.

Key capabilities for risk management use cases:

Price forecasts (Pro, Advanced, and Ultimate plans) — short-term forecasts for selected energy price assessments enable risk teams to anticipate price movements and plan hedging or inventory strategies accordingly.
10- to 15-year historical price data (Advanced and Ultimate plans) — long time series support volatility analysis, scenario modeling, and value-at-risk assessments based on observed price behavior.
Market Outlook (Advanced and Ultimate plans) — exports, imports, trade balance, production, demand, energy balance, and trade dependencies provide fundamental context for evaluating supply-side and geopolitical risk factors.
Energy Self-Sufficiency data (Advanced and Ultimate plans) — country-level self-sufficiency assessments help identify markets where supply disruption risk is structurally higher.

This product covers energy commodity prices and market fundamentals — it is not a real-time trading feed. Data is published monthly, making it most suitable for medium-term risk analysis and procurement planning rather than intraday or tick-level risk systems.

Can sales teams use this data for contract pricing?

Sales and commercial teams that supply or purchase energy commodities can use Energy Prices & Markets to support contract pricing and negotiations. The product provides independent, methodology-backed price benchmarks for 12 energy commodities across 33 countries — data that serves as an objective reference point when setting or defending prices in commercial agreements.

Practical applications for sales teams include:

Contract index alignment — compare proposed contract prices against monthly market-level assessments to confirm alignment with prevailing conditions.
Regional price comparisons — use Global Prices Comparison (Advanced and Ultimate plans) to understand how prices differ across markets and to support regionally differentiated pricing strategies.
Historical trend justification — historical price data (1 to 15 years depending on plan) provides documented evidence of price movement over time, supporting price adjustment conversations with customers.
Price forecasts — available on Pro, Advanced, and Ultimate plans; help sales teams anticipate future market conditions when structuring forward contracts or multi-year pricing arrangements.

Is this product relevant for investment location decisions?

Energy Prices & Markets is directly relevant for investment location decisions that involve energy cost as a key variable. Energy is a major operational expense in capital-intensive industries, and cross-country energy price differences can materially affect where it is most economical to locate a new plant, expand capacity, or source production.

The product provides several data dimensions that feed directly into location analysis:

Country-specific energy price data across 33 countries — enables direct comparison of electricity, natural gas, diesel, and other energy input costs across candidate locations.
Market Outlook (Advanced and Ultimate plans) — exports, imports, production, demand, energy balance, and energy self-sufficiency data provide the supply-side context needed to assess long-term energy availability and price stability in a given country.
Freight & Insurance Costs (Advanced and Ultimate plans) — supports logistics planning and landed-cost comparisons across locations.
Historical price data (up to 15 years on Ultimate) — reveals how energy costs have evolved in each country, informing assessments of price stability and long-term cost competitiveness.

Corporate strategy and business development teams — specifically those evaluating which regions offer the best conditions for new investments — are among the defined user profiles for this product.

How do strategy teams typically use energy market data?

Corporate strategy and planning professionals use Energy Prices & Markets across several dimensions of strategic analysis:

Operational cost planning — country-specific energy price data feeds into operational cost models for existing facilities and greenfield investment evaluations, where energy is a significant OPEX component.
Market assessment — trade dynamics and supply/demand analysis (Advanced and Ultimate plans) provide fundamental context for assessing the energy market environment in target countries.
Risk evaluation — energy self-sufficiency data and trade dependency indicators help strategy teams identify countries where energy supply risk could affect long-term operational stability.
Logistics and supply chain planning — freight rates, freight rate forecasts, and netback/netforward prices (Advanced and Ultimate plans) support the total cost analysis required for regional supply chain decisions.
Long-range benchmarking — up to 15 years of monthly historical data (Ultimate plan via API) enables strategy teams to track how energy cost environments have shifted across countries over time, supporting competitive positioning and investment screening.

The product's multi-country scope — 33 countries spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East — makes it particularly suited to strategy teams working across global or regional portfolios.

Can engineers use this for operational cost estimates?

Energy Prices & Markets provides energy commodity price data that can serve as OPEX inputs in operational cost estimates for industrial facilities. Energy costs — including electricity, natural gas, diesel, fuel oil, and other energy carriers — are significant components of operating expenses in process industries, and the product covers all 12 major energy commodities used as industrial inputs.

Relevant capabilities for engineering cost estimates:

Current energy commodity prices across 33 countries — serves as the price input for energy-intensive OPEX line items in cost models and feasibility studies.
Historical price data (1 to 15 years depending on plan) — enables engineers to run sensitivity analyses using observed price ranges rather than single-point assumptions.
Cross-country price data — useful for comparing energy input costs across alternative plant locations during the site selection phase of a project.
Price forecasts (Pro, Advanced, and Ultimate plans) — support forward-looking cost estimates that need to account for near-term energy price trends.

This product focuses on energy market prices and fundamentals. For comprehensive production cost modeling — including full CAPEX/OPEX breakdowns, equipment lists, and process flow diagrams — the Commodity Production Costs product is the more specialized tool.

Is this data suitable for cross-country energy policy work?

Energy Prices & Markets is well matched to cross-country energy policy work. The product covers 12 energy commodities across 33 countries — a scope broad enough to support comparative energy analysis at the national and regional level.

Data dimensions relevant to policy and research use cases:

Cross-country price comparison — Global Prices Comparison (Advanced and Ultimate plans) ranks energy commodity prices by country, providing a standardized basis for cost-of-energy comparisons across jurisdictions.
Energy balance and self-sufficiency — country-level data on energy production, demand, imports, exports, and self-sufficiency (Advanced and Ultimate plans) enables analysis of energy independence and supply vulnerability at the national level.
Electricity generation by source — breakdown of electricity generation by energy carrier (Advanced and Ultimate plans) supports energy mix and decarbonization analysis.
Trade dependencies — import/export partner data and trade balance figures (Advanced and Ultimate plans) help researchers map energy supply dependencies between countries.
Long-term historical data — up to 15 years of monthly data via API (Ultimate plan) supports time-series analysis of energy cost and supply trends, which is essential for evidence-based policy evaluation and economic research.

Policymakers, advisors, regulators, and analysts working in ministries, development banks, and international organizations are among the defined user profiles for this product. The Ultimate plan is required to unlock the full historical depth and API access most relevant to large-scale policy research.

Can data providers integrate this into their platforms?

Information service providers can integrate Energy Prices & Markets data into their own platforms and services through the Ultimate plan, which is specifically designed for companies with redistribution and integration needs.

Integration capabilities under the Ultimate plan:

REST Web API — programmatic access to energy price data for automated ingestion into data platforms, dashboards, and analytics applications.
Up to 20 API users with 500+ API requests per country per billing period — supports team-level and platform-scale data consumption.
Third-party sharing and integration rights — permits the subscriber to surface Intratec energy data within their own commercial products and services.
33 countries of energy market data — comprehensive geographic scope for information providers covering global or multi-regional energy markets.
Multiple domain access — allows the subscription to be accessed across the subscriber's product infrastructure.
Customizable terms and conditions — available on Ultimate to accommodate enterprise licensing arrangements.

The API supports integration with common workflow tools, including Microsoft Logic Apps, N8N, and Zapier, and is compatible with Excel Add-In and Power BI delivery as additional access channels.

The Ultimate plan grants integration rights into the subscriber's own products and services. It does not permit the resale of raw Intratec data as a standalone dataset.

Energy Prices & Markets is used by a broad range of organizations that need reliable energy price data and market intelligence for operational, strategic, or analytical purposes.

The main subscriber profiles by company type:

Oil, gas, energy, and utility companies — track energy commodity prices and market fundamentals as a core part of their business operations.
Industrial manufacturers — use energy price data for OPEX modeling, procurement benchmarking, and cross-country cost comparisons in capital-intensive production environments.
Engineering and EPC firms — incorporate energy cost data into plant design studies and investment feasibility analyses.
Trading and distribution organizations — monitor energy prices across markets for commercial and logistics planning.
Banks and financial institutions — use independent energy market data for investment analysis, project financing, and commodity exposure assessment.
Government agencies, NGOs, and academic institutions — apply multi-country energy data for policy research, regulatory analysis, and economic studies.
Information providers and consulting firms — integrate energy market data into their own platforms and advisory services, particularly under the Ultimate plan.

The four subscription plans are positioned to reflect company profile: Starter for local or startup businesses; Pro for international businesses; Advanced for business groups with automation needs; Ultimate for consulting companies, service providers, and software platforms with integration needs.