Bidweek Survey
Monthly baseload price for next-month delivery, published on the first business day of each delivery month at 10:30 CT. Trade window: the last five business days of the prior month (Bidweek). Reconcilable to submitter FERC Form 552 filings.
Only Bidweek qualifies.
Only trades executed during Bidweek — the last five business days of the prior calendar month — for full-month baseload delivery qualify. VWAP is computed across all qualifying submissions passing the 11 eligibility checks. Partial-month and daily-swing trades are excluded.
- ✓ Full calendar month delivery
- ✓ Firm, physical, arms-length
- ✓ Fixed price (non-index-tied)
- ✗ Daily-swing trades excluded
- ✗ Partial-month deals excluded
The settlement reference.
Bidweek prices are widely used as settlement references in long-term physical gas contracts, cost-of-service tariffs, and producer hedging programs. Our Bidweek index is reconcilable to submitter Form 552 filings — every trade's category is tagged for regulator-side reconciliation.
Counterparties, volume, and category are recorded in the audit archive for 7 years.
Settlement-grade baseload.
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