Transparency

No black box.
Every number traces to a source.

Most price-curve providers hand you an output and ask you to trust it. PowerLens is built the other way round: an open model, assumptions you set yourself, public data cited source by source, and the model's own weaknesses stated up front. If a number surprises you, you should be able to find out why.

Four things we don't hide.

The model
Open, not proprietary

Built on PyPSA + HiGHS, the open-source dispatch framework used across European system planning — not an engine you have to take on faith.

The assumptions
Yours to set

Commodity prices, demand, capacity and per-technology build-out are all live controls. You set them, you change them, the curve recomputes — nothing is hard-wired out of reach.

The data
Public, and cited

Calibrated only on public datasets — ENTSO-E, IRENA, Ember, Eurostat, TYNDP. No proprietary feed sits between you and the result, and every source is named below.

The limitations
Stated up front

Where the model is weak — its ten-zone wholesale-only scope, its known biases, its in-sample calibration — is written down and handed to you, not discovered in month three.

Every input, named.

Everything the model is calibrated on is public and traceable. These are the sources — no hidden dataset, nothing you can't go and check yourself.

What it feeds the model
Public source
Day-ahead prices & cross-border flows
Generation mix, gas & carbon prices
Scenario build-out pathways
Capacity-factor benchmarks
Renewables.ninja — Pfenninger & Staffell (2016)

The whole method,
on request.

The complete methodology note and the assumptions-and-sources register — the dispatch formulation, the marginal-cost stack, the 2024 backtest against ENTSO-E, every calibration choice and every data point — ship with every engagement and are available inside the app. We'll walk you through any number that matters to your decision. That openness is the product, not a footnote to it.

A transparent second opinion,
on the market you care about.

Book a 30-minute demo and we'll run your market live — assumptions visible, sources cited, limitations included.