Seguro closely monitors and interprets relevant market fundamentals to understand their impact on prices and commodity flows in the various energy markets, and to ensure that our analyses and advice to clients is timely and accurate. We track the availability of various physical infrastructure related to power generation and transmission, fuel supply, prevailing storage levels, planned maintenance, forced outages, and other important variables.
We also utilize market data from both internal and leading external sources to track the key macroeconomic and regional drivers of long-term supply and demand, including current and projected GDP and population growth; historical and forecast levels of commercial and industrial activity at local, regional and national levels; inflation, foreign exchange and interest rates that impact revenues and costs; and other important considerations. We utilize a wide variety of short-term weather and temperature forecasting services and tools, analyzing short-term patterns and longer-term trends to better predict prices and consumption levels.