Connects to what you have
Works with the solar, battery and inverter you already own, through the manufacturer's cloud. No extra hardware.
Shîfter gets more from the solar and battery you already own. It makes the day-to-day energy decisions automatically, balancing cost and carbon, with no new hardware and no effort.
Got solar or a battery?
They follow basic rules or fixed schedules, even though electricity prices and carbon intensity change every 30 minutes. So they use the grid when it's expensive, discharge at the wrong times and leave savings on the table.
Having solar or a battery is step one. Shîfter is step two: making sure the day-to-day decisions are actually being made.
Having solar or a battery is step one. Shîfter is step two: making the day-to-day decisions for you.
A typical day
Solar generation vs. grid prices
Works with the solar, battery and inverter you already own, through the manufacturer's cloud. No extra hardware.
As prices and carbon intensity change, Shîfter decides when to store, use or export energy.
It considers how solar, batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps interact, so one decision doesn't undo another.
Your supplier sets the prices. Shîfter makes the decisions. It complements smart tariffs rather than replacing them.
Shîfter makes
48
decisions a day, one for every half hour
£0
new hardware, and no site visit
100%
automated, with nothing to run day to day
Works with leading inverter brands
Tell us about your solar, battery and inverter. Shîfter connects through your inverter's cloud.
It looks at your usage, your tariff, your solar generation and local carbon intensity.
Every half hour it decides when to charge, discharge or hold. You don't need to do anything.
No. Decent is software only. It connects to your inverter through the manufacturer's cloud account, the same way the manufacturer's own app does. There's no extra hardware, no site visit and no disruption.
Decent is built for sites with solar panels, battery storage or both. It connects through the inverter manufacturer's cloud and works with major brands including Solis, GivEnergy, Fox ESS, SolarEdge and Huawei. We'll check compatibility with you before anything is connected.
If you're still thinking about solar or a battery, we can look at your usage first to see what you could save.
No. Decent works alongside your existing supplier and tariff. It gets the most out of smart and time-of-use tariffs such as Octopus Agile and Flux, but it doesn't replace them, and it doesn't sell energy.
Every 30 minutes, to match the half-hourly prices used by smart tariffs. Each decision weighs the price of electricity, the weather forecast and how clean the grid is at that moment.
No. Decent uses the same cloud connections as the manufacturer's own apps, and sends standard charge and discharge commands within normal operating limits.
Yes. You stay in control. You can set preferences, choose whether to put cost or carbon first, override individual decisions or pause Decent at any time.
Octopus provides smart tariffs and some EV-specific automation, but it doesn't offer a standalone product that fully optimises solar and battery systems across the home. Octopus sets the prices. Shîfter makes the decisions.
Manufacturer apps are tied to their own ecosystem and often rely on manual scheduling. They optimise a single device, not the whole site. Shîfter looks across all your energy assets at once.
Some energy enthusiasts optimise manually, and that works for them. Shîfter exists for people who can't, don't want to, or don't have time to manage dozens of energy decisions every day, while still being transparent for those who want to go deeper.
Yes. We only access the data we need to run your system. We don't sell your data, and we follow UK data protection law.
No new hardware. No complicated setup. No daily effort.