How Shifter optimises your home energy
Shifter sits between your smart tariff and your battery system. It watches prices and carbon intensity change in real-time, then makes automatic decisions about when to store and use energy.
Three steps to effortless savings
Connect your system
Tell us about your solar panels, battery, and inverter. Shifter connects via your inverter's cloud API — no hardware or installation needed.
Shifter starts learning
Shifter analyses your energy usage patterns, tariff rates, solar generation, and local carbon intensity data to understand your household.
Automatic optimisation begins
Every 30 minutes, Shifter decides when to charge, discharge, or hold your battery. Savings and carbon reductions happen without you doing anything.
The technology behind the simplicity
Real-time price tracking
Shifter monitors half-hourly electricity prices from your smart tariff provider. When prices drop, it charges your battery. When they rise, it uses stored energy.
Carbon intensity awareness
Using National Grid ESO carbon intensity data, Shifter aligns your energy usage with greener periods, increasing the proportion of low-carbon energy your home uses.
Household-level intelligence
Unlike manufacturer apps that optimise a single device, Shifter considers how solar, batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps interact. Decisions made for one device won't negatively impact another.
Transparent by design
Shifter makes decisions in the background and explains them only as much, or as little, as you want. Your dashboard shows exactly what's happening and why.
Octopus sets the prices. Shifter makes the decisions.
Shifter works with smart tariffs, not instead of them. It doesn't sell energy and it doesn't require new hardware. Its role is to make holistic, household-level decisions that no single tariff, device, or manufacturer can make alone.
This is why Shifter doesn't sell hardware and doesn't act as an energy supplier. Its only incentive is to improve outcomes for your household.
Technical questions
How does Shifter connect to my inverter?
Shifter connects via your inverter manufacturer's cloud API. This means no physical installation — just a simple online setup linking your inverter account.
How often does Shifter make decisions?
Shifter evaluates and potentially adjusts your battery every 30 minutes, matching the half-hourly pricing intervals used by smart tariffs.
Will Shifter void my inverter warranty?
No. Shifter uses the same cloud APIs that manufacturer apps use. It sends standard charge/discharge commands that are within normal operating parameters.
Can I override Shifter's decisions?
Yes. You always have full control. You can set preferences, override individual decisions, or pause Shifter at any time from your dashboard.
Simple to start. Effortless to run.
Connect your system in minutes and let Shifter handle the rest.