OptiFlow for imbalance management
OptiFlow is an agentic layer that watches your settlement position, spots the data and forecast errors that push you into imbalance, and works on top of your existing settlement and forecasting systems rather than replacing them.
Imbalance is where small data errors turn into real cash out costs
Every half hour, the difference between the volume you contracted for and the volume your customers actually used is settled at the imbalance price. A wrong meter reading, a late data flow, a stale forecast or an unnoticed loss of supply all widen that gap, and the cash out price is rarely in your favour. The numbers sit inside settlement files that few people read until the money has already gone.
OptiFlow watches the settlement position across your whole book, flags the errors and gaps that drive imbalance early, and hands your team the actions that protect your cash out cost.
What OptiFlow handles
Watches your position
Reads your settlement and metering data as it lands and tracks contracted volume against actual demand across every settlement period.
Flags forecast drift
Spots when your demand forecast is pulling away from reality for a customer group or a region before the imbalance builds up.
Chases missing data
Finds the meter reads and data flows that have not arrived and would leave you settled on estimates, and pushes them to be resolved.
Explains the cost
Turns raw settlement files into a plain account of where imbalance came from, which periods drove it and what it cost you.
Protects the position
Surfaces the actions that would cut your exposure, from correcting a reading to updating a forecast, with the context attached.
Keeps the audit trail
Logs every exception it found and every action taken, so your settlement and trading teams have a clear record for reconciliation.
Common questions
Does OptiFlow replace our settlement or forecasting system?
No. OptiFlow sits on top of the settlement, metering and forecasting systems you already run. It reads their data, finds the errors and gaps that drive imbalance, and hands the actions back to your team. Nothing is ripped out.
Can it work with half hourly settlement under MHHS?
Yes. As settlement moves to half hourly for the whole market, the volume of settlement data grows sharply. OptiFlow is built to read that volume and find the exceptions that matter, which is exactly where manual checking stops coping.
Will it act on its own or wait for us?
You choose. OptiFlow can surface and rank the exposures for your team, or take defined actions such as chasing a missing data flow, within the limits you set.
How does a deployment start?
It starts with a read only connection to your settlement and metering data, so OptiFlow can show you the imbalance it can already see before anything is automated.
See how OptiFlow would fit your operation
Speak to our team and we will map it to your workflows and systems.