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Optimise

Manage, understand and reduce the cost and carbon of every building you run.

One shared foundation of building and meter data, plus a suite of specialist tools — cost analysis, decarbonisation planning, solar and battery modelling, carbon reporting, consent and network lookups — all from one place.

Example site · half-hourlyData flowing
Modelled annual saving18,400£/yr
Emissions avoided42.6tCO₂e/yr
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Energy & sustainability managers

Run the full suite day to day across a portfolio of sites.

Consultants and brokers

Model options, build the investment case, share the result with a client.

Your end customers

A simplified read-only portal showing only the results that matter to them.

The foundation

Portfolios & sites

Everything starts with a record of your buildings. Add a site by searching an address and the system automatically looks up over 20 address-matched UK data sources to build its profile — then you decide how it gets permission to see the usage data.

01
Find buildings

Search an address on a map, or upload a file of thousands and work through a review queue.

02
Access energy data

Bring your own data, or get it from industry sources with the appropriate permissions — at all granularities, through Perse data connectors.

03
Switch tools on

Choose which Optimise tools run against each site and meter.

One address, 35 matched UK datasets

Address matching is what ties them together — every dataset below is joined to the same building record, with no manual reconciliation.

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Energy & network
Registered electricity and gas meters
Network and substation data across all six GB distribution operators
59 non-commodity cost categories
Building fabric
EPC certificates and ratings
Building information from insurance datasets
LIDAR height and footprint data
Solar & climate
Google Solar roof modelling
PVGIS irradiance
CEDA weather records
Business & occupier
HMRC business rates
Companies House records
DVLA / MOT vehicle data
Zapmap EV charge points
Core differentiators

Why the foundation holds up at scale

Bulk address matching

From 10 to 100,000+ addresses in one go. Upload a file, get the best matched result, verify, and add the sites to your portfolio.

Industry-leading matching

Matches business addresses against every relevant industry dataset — meter data, building fabric from insurance, EPC, business rates building information, substation records and more.

Data in, your way

Bring data through the industry connectors, or upload it in bulk against your portfolios — whichever route your estate allows.

Specialist tool 01

Energy & Carbon Reporting

The reporting engine customers use to meet their regulatory obligations and to build a credible net zero plan. Turns a portfolio's real energy data into emissions and consumption reports fit for disclosure — one-off or recurring, downloaded or delivered automatically.

SECRESOSScope 1, 2 & 3Net zero planningInvestor & lender disclosure
Group sites and meters by supplier, building type or address — automatically, manually or by upload
Interactive dashboards: headline figures, region, EPC rating, size, age and heating type, plus a map
The gap between the UK grid average and your actual, greener contract, shown explicitly
Organisation-wide trends with a coverage-gaps view flagging missing data
Custom report templates, secure file-transfer delivery and a full download history
Pre-flight checks before a report runs
Consent in place for all metersReady
Missing months2 gaps
Duplicate recordsNone
Unusual readings1 flagged
Carbon Portfolio Calculator: 116 properties, 442.94 tCO2e total emissions, market-based versus location-based comparison and data coverage quality
Carbon Portfolio Calculator — market-based and location-based emissions side by side, with coverage quality stated up front
Specialist tool 02

Low Carbon Options

Assesses what a site could do to cut its carbon footprint, and puts a financial case behind every option — projected savings, upfront cost, return on investment and payback time.

Solar PVBattery storageEV chargingHeat pumpsBoiler replacementInsulationLightingVoltage optimisation
One overview combining usage trends, occupancy patterns, EPC rating and a ranked list of improvements
A "quick wins" list of low-cost, low-effort measures
A guided EV-charging sizing tool using available parking and local adoption trends
A solution builder that packages solar, battery, a smarter tariff and EV charging into one plan
A network capacity check on the local substation before you commit
Portfolio-wide rollout planning and batch analysis across many sites at once
Every measure is costed on
Annual saving£ / yr
Carbon avoidedtCO₂e / yr
Estimated cost£ upfront
Return on investment%
Paybackyears

Modelled from building age, floor area and half-hourly usage — no site visit.

Energy projection view: plan measures listed beside a baseline versus with-your-plan consumption and carbon chart to 2030Low carbon recommendations: ranked measure cards with annual savings, ROI, payback and estimated cost
Energy projection — baseline against your plan, in kWh, carbon and £
30 yr
Financial projection on every sized option
Roof-level
Place panels on the actual site layout
Ranked
Options ordered by payback period
PDF / XLS
Export or share a specific result externally
Specialist tool 03

Solar & Battery Optimisation

Model solar and battery investments against a site's real usage, then rank the sized options by how quickly they pay for themselves.

A sizing wizard: solar, battery or both, on your cost and tariff assumptions
Every run produces several sized options with generation, cost and savings charts
Compare results across multiple runs for the same site
Build a fully custom electricity tariff as an alternative to standard options
Run the analysis across a whole portfolio, or compare planning options portfolio-wide
Feature deepdive

Solar panel dropper

A full satellite-based system designer built into every quote. Draw the actual roof, drop real panel SKUs, exclude chimneys and vents, and spin it round in 3D — before you've left the driveway.

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Roof-shape presets
3
Independent elevation sources
PVGIS
Bankable irradiance dataset
Automatic roof segment detection: classified roof planes outlined and labelled over an aerial imagePhotoreal 3D roof reconstruction with cyan panel zones placed across each roof planeDigital surface model elevation layer over satellite imagery with 153 panels placed and two exclusion zones marked
Auto segment detection — every roof plane found and classified
Auto roof segment detection

Every roof plane is found and classified straight from the aerial image — flat, triangular, trapezoid and irregular faces outlined automatically before you place a single panel.

13 roof-shape presets

Flat, hipped, gabled, mansard, butterfly, compound and more — matched to the real building, not a generic box.

Three real elevation sources

Defra, Google and BlueSky LiDAR data compute each roof's actual pitch and orientation, pixel by pixel — not a flat assumption.

Draw exclusion zones

Mark chimneys, vents and skylights so panels are placed around them automatically.

Auto-place or manual drop

Fill a roof zone instantly with smart alignment and spacing, then fine-tune panel by panel.

Photoreal 3D roof view

Orbit a true-to-life reconstruction, switch between aerial imagery and a LiDAR elevation view, with dynamic shadows as the sun moves.

Bankable generation numbers

Annual and monthly yield sourced from PVGIS, the EU's independent irradiance dataset — plus access to Google Solar. Not an in-house guess.

Real panel catalog

Sized, wattage-rated and priced by manufacturer — not a placeholder figure. Bring your own panel, or use the marketplace.

One site, or thousands

Every analysis runs at portfolio scale

The tools above aren't single-site calculators. Upload 10 addresses or 100,000, and the same models run across all of them in one go — then rank the results by whatever matters: payback, saving, carbon or capital cost.

Set a selection rule once — best payback, lowest cost, largest carbon cut — and every site gets its winning scenario picked automatically.

Portfolio planning: best-payback selection rule across 14 sites, £672,488 annual opportunity, top sites ranked with EPC distribution and per-site scenarios
Portfolio planning — one selection rule, every site's best scenario, ranked
Low Carbon Options

Ranked measures with cost, saving and payback for every site in the upload — not one at a time.

1 → 100,000+ addresses
Solar & Battery

Size and price solar and storage across the whole estate, then compare planning options portfolio-wide.

Batch scenarios per site
Non-commodity costs

Break every meter's bill into its 59 charge categories and total the exposure across the portfolio.

Per meter, rolled up
Energy & Carbon Reporting

One emissions baseline covering every site, with coverage gaps flagged before the report goes out.

Whole-portfolio baseline
The rest of the suite

Every tool your business needs

Cost analysis, research, permissions, network data and the vendors who deliver the work — the supporting tools that make the headline analysis trustworthy and actionable.

Non-commodity costs

Breaks down the network, environmental and regulatory charges that sit on top of the energy itself.

·A guided 3-step calculation per site and meter
·Overview, monthly, heatmap, by-charge and seasonal views
·Plain-English notes on nearly 20 UK charge types

Network & substation lookup

Public information about the UK electricity network at any address, from regional grid down to local low-voltage supply.

·Spare capacity at each point in the chain
·Nearby solar, wind, battery and other generation
·Export the operators' full open datasets

Time-of-use tariff admin

Configure the tariffs that power calculations everywhere else in the platform.

·Pricing by time of day, day of week and season
·Templates for common patterns, or fully custom rates
·A coverage check blocks unpriced gaps before saving

Consent management

The permissions that let Optimise access usage data — active, pending and withdrawn, with the evidence behind each.

·Six routes to record a consent, evidence attached
·Extend an existing consent to more sites or meters
·Revoke at any time — data access stops immediately

Vendor & marketplace services

The delivery side of a plan: who installs it, who funds it, and where every quote has got to.

·Find vetted suppliers of solar, battery and heat pump installation
·Find financing from service providers, PE funds or banks
·Installers track every customer quote through to closure

Company analytics

Research any UK company for prospecting and account work.

·A Company 360 profile: financials, directors, connections
·Locations as a list or on a map
·AI-generated ESG and climate-risk summaries, exportable
For your end customers

The Customer Portal

A simplified, read-only view for the business or property owner whose sites you analyse. They only ever see the sites shared with them, and only the products they've been granted.

Customers see only the sites explicitly shared with them
Only the products they've been granted — nothing else appears
Read-only throughout: view results, never run new analysis
Low Carbon Options

A simplified mirror of the options dashboard: key metrics, top measures, savings and trends.

Solar & Battery

The specific result you chose to share, with only the sections you decided to expose.

Carbon Dashboard

Shared reports as the same interactive dashboards used internally.

Customer case
UK retail estate — 43 sites
client masked — awaiting permission to name

43 sites in. A £6.8m solar and battery investment decision out.

A UK retail estate ran its whole half-hourly portfolio through Optimise. No surveys — the plan came back phased, priced and financed.

£1.20m/yr
Saving identified — 38% of current energy spend
5.7yrs
Blended payback; cash break-even in year 6
43%
Of grid demand avoided — 6.1m kWh a year
0visits
Site surveys needed to build the case
How Optimise got them there
  1. 01Every site loaded, consent given.
  2. 02Optimise pulled the energy and building data for each one.
  3. 03Solar and battery sized against their current tariffs.
  4. 04Our supplier relationships got real time-of-use tariffs for all 43.
  5. 05Re-ran on those tariffs — out came a ranked build order.
  6. 06Vendor financing priced in, modelled over 30 years.

See Optimise on your own portfolio

Bring one address. We'll pull the EPC, find the meters and show you the recommendations it produces.