For plants that can move a shift
Run the heavy work when power is cheap.
Lowtide reads tomorrow's half-hourly grid prices and rebuilds your production plan around the cheap hours. Same output, same crew, smaller bill.
9 plants live. 41.2 GWh moved since October. No new hardware at any of them.
As the shift pattern has it
£4,181
As Lowtide would run it
£1,246
−£2,935 on the day, 70% off the movable load
- Anneal01:00Anneal runs 07:00 under the shift pattern, 01:00 under Lowtide.
- Wash04:00Wash runs 18:00 under the shift pattern, 04:00 under Lowtide.
- Mill 211:00Mill 2 runs 16:00 under the shift pattern, 11:00 under Lowtide.
- Dry13:00Dry runs 15:00 under the shift pattern, 13:00 under Lowtide.
Plants running on Lowtide
- Harlow Rolling Mill
- Brightside Dairy
- Kestrel Plastics
- Norton Cold Store
- Tarn Paper Mill
- Ellesmere Coatings
Accredited by the Industrial Flex Council
The problem
Your hungriest hour is the grid's dearest hour.
Most shift patterns were drawn before electricity had a price that changed every thirty minutes. They still put the heaviest work in the two windows that cost the most, and they do it every month of the year.
Twelve months of half-hourly prices at one site
The two pale columns are Harlow's fixed run windows. They never move.
Morning shift: 07:00 to 10:00Late shift: 15:00 to 19:30
- tomorrow's cheapest half-hour, at 01:30
£34per MWh
tomorrow's cheapest half-hour, at 01:30
- tomorrow's dearest, at 18:00
£231per MWh
tomorrow's dearest, at 18:00
- across one ordinary Tuesday
6.8xspread
across one ordinary Tuesday
Illustrative day-ahead data for a single site. Lowtide and Harlow Rolling Mill are invented.
What we do
We spend the slack you already have.
Lowtide never asks you to make less or ship later. It measures how much float your own scheduler allows each process, then moves only what fits inside it.
Four of Harlow's 11 processes moved in week one. 7 of them can.
Three hours of slack or more
How it works
Three days to your first moved run.
Three sources, no install
30 days of half-hourly readings, pulled from the meter you already have
Median time from first call to first moved run across the last nine plants: 3 working days.
Why trust us
9 plants, 11 months, no new hardware.
We are paid a share of what we save, measured against your own meter and your own supplier invoice. A month that moves nothing costs nothing.
“I expected a black box telling me to run the mill at three in the morning. What arrived was a one-page sheet I could argue with. We changed two lines of it and ran the rest.”
Priya RamanOperations Director, Harlow Rolling Mill
- off 11 months of electricity bills
- £1.9moff 11 months of electricity bills
- off Harlow's movable load last quarter
- 70%off Harlow's movable load last quarter
- shift contracts renegotiated
- 0shift contracts renegotiated
Questions
The questions plant managers ask first.
Read-only in, a sheet out. Nothing is installed on your floor.
Not the question you have?
You will get an engineer on the call, not a salesperson.
Book a 20-minute callNo. Lowtide only moves a run inside the float your own scheduler already allows it. A process with no slack is a process we do not touch, and every plan is a proposal your planner approves before anything changes.
Start here
See your own day, priced.
Send one month of half-hourly consumption. We return a costed plan for a real day at your plant: the runs we would have moved, and what it would have saved.
Free, and back within three working days. We do not need meter access for the first pass.
Day 0
You send one month of half-hourly consumption
Day 1
We price a real day at your plant against it
Day 3
A costed plan comes back, with the runs we would move