Forecasting & pricing tools for the new energy economy

One platform across forecasting, pricing, rating and revenue intelligence. Start with one product, easily connect the next when you are ready.

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CORE FUNCTIONS
Price the future of energy with one tool
Most pricing tools work well until the market gets complex. Then the bottlenecks start. Smaller jobs go unquoted because the effort isn't worth it. Larger contracts take weeks when they should take days.

Factor was built for the complexity of modern energy pricing. One platform, across forecasting, pricing, rating and revenue intelligence, that connects to your existing systems via API and gets out of the way of the work.
Demand and Generation
Forecasting
Granular, connection-level, demand and generation forecasting for smarter pricing, bi-directional contracts and procurement.
Create any price construct
Pricing
Build and manage any price construct: flat, dynamic, contractual, or bundled. Factor lets you configure, version, and automate pricing across systems.
Real-time or at settlement
Rating
Calculate the cost of consumption in real-time or at settlement. Immediately deliver rated data to your other systems or your Customer Experience layer.
Live margin, connection by connection
Revenue Intelligence
Track live margin at the connection level. Factor AI continually learns by ingesting intelligence back into forecasting and pricing, and refining your algorithms.
Use cases
What Factor enables
We work with ambitious organisations that are creating the new energy economy.
For pricing teams
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Battery
Price charge and discharge separately, and settle both against the market interval.
For pricing teams
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Bespoke Pricing
Structure a one-off construct for a large customer without a code change.
For pricing teams
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Difference Forecasting
Forecast the gap between your contracted volume and actual load, so each tranche is bought against a real shortfall.
For pricing teams
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Dynamic Tariffs
Publish prices that move with the market, and true up monthly against what settled.
For product teams
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Electric Vehicles
Segment charging load at the device level and rate it on its own time-of-use shape.
For product teams
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Enhanced CX
Push rated cost and live margin into your experience layer as it happens.
For pricing teams
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Power Purchase Agreements
Construct your PPA on your terms and automate the billing calculation.
For product teams
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Price Signal Optimisation
Test which signal actually shifts load before you take it to market.
For pricing teams
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Progressive Energy Purchasing
Buy in tranches against a live forward view and track the blended position as it fills.
For pricing teams
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Short-term Forecasting
Forecast the next hours and days at interval resolution, and reprice your position as the market moves.
For pricing teams
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Virtual Power Plants
Apply advanced pricing to your VPP to optimise demand-response and improve return-on-investment.
For pricing teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Battery
Price charge and discharge separately, and settle both against the market interval.
For pricing teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Bespoke Pricing
Structure a one-off construct for a large customer without a code change.
For pricing teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Difference Forecasting
Forecast the gap between your contracted volume and actual load, so each tranche is bought against a real shortfall.
For pricing teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Dynamic Tariffs
Publish prices that move with the market, and true up monthly against what settled.
For product teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Electric Vehicles
Segment charging load at the device level and rate it on its own time-of-use shape.
For product teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Enhanced CX
Push rated cost and live margin into your experience layer as it happens.
For pricing teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Power Purchase Agreements
Construct your PPA on your terms and automate the billing calculation.
For product teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Price Signal Optimisation
Test which signal actually shifts load before you take it to market.
For pricing teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Progressive Energy Purchasing
Buy in tranches against a live forward view and track the blended position as it fills.
For pricing teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Short-term Forecasting
Forecast the next hours and days at interval resolution, and reprice your position as the market moves.
For pricing teams
Custom icon of a laptop showing rows of info
Virtual Power Plants
Apply advanced pricing to your VPP to optimise demand-response and improve return-on-investment.
integrate simply
Factor works in harmony with your existing software ecosystem
Utilities run these four jobs in four disconnected systems, so a price never learns from what actually settled. Factor runs them together. Forecasts feed pricing, pricing feeds rating, and rated margin feeds back into the forecast.No data cleaning before you start. No rip-and-replace of your CRM or billing.
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API first
Easy integration with CRMs, billing systems, and data platforms. Every function in the platform is exposed as an API, so forecasts, prices and rated costs move to whatever system needs them, on your schedule.
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Modular
Start with one product and connect the next Factor solution when you are ready. Each one works on its own and gets better alongside the others, so there is no all-or-nothing migration to justify.
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Data ingestion
Flexible data model. No need to clean or transform data before use. Send meter reads, market data and contract terms as they are, and Factor maps them to the connection they belong to.
Use Factor
It's the easiest win in energy
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Frequently
asked questions

How does Factor integrate with our existing systems?

Factor has been built to integrate. Use our APIs to connect Factor to your existing software solutions for seamless operationalization of forecasting and pricing calculations. Factor also integrates with your CRM or CPQ to surface pricing at the Point of Sale. Finally, we offer a managed package with Salesforce E&U Cloud. Any data you produce in Factor is automatically published to files that can be easily ingested by your preferred data platform.

How quickly can we prototype and visualize new pricing scenarios with Factor?

Factor enables rapid idea-to-prototype workflows, allowing your team to configure and experiment with pricing scenarios without dealing with a technical backlog. Once you have configured the product you want to test, the forecast and calculation are processed in ~10 seconds.

How does Factor handle complex multi-site and portfolio pricing?

Factor performs forecasts and calculations at the service point level, then enables bundling of multiple connections and/or sites. Every service point can use a different forecast and calculation type(s). Even better — Factor enables you to capture load flexibility benefits by accounting for portfolio effects that smooth out peaks and valleys.

What’s your pricing like?

Factor is a true SaaS solution and can be purchased on three different subscription tiers to fit your needs. Our starter subscription is perfect if you need support for one use case, while our Enterprise tier comes with full enterprise grade user management, security and support.

How does Factor handle forecasting for different costs, generation and load profiles?

Factor includes a comprehensive forecast library with a wide range of forecasts for generation, usage and costs. For example:
● Weather-reflective generation forecasting for wind and solar assets
● Load profiles and demand pattern forecasting for various customer types
● Forward price curve forecasts as well as the ability to ingest a third-party price curve.