AI that aligns energy, production and performance

The electricity market is becoming increasingly unpredictable

Between price volatility, increasingly complex contracts, and pressure on margins, manufacturers must make critical energy decisions every day... without the right tools.

‍The result: unexpected additional costs, suboptimal production plans, coordination issues between teams, and loss of competitiveness.

HIGHCAST makes it easy to factor the electricity market into production decisions

By synchronizing industrial production with electricity costs, you can maximize savings on your bills without compromising operational performance.

‍Using AI, the platform anticipates prices, calculates the real cost of each action, and suggests the best decisions at the right time.

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TEC: Total Electricity Cost - Your absolute reference

The TEC is the central engine of HIGHCAST: a unique, comprehensive, real-time indicator that calculates the actual cost of electricity for your plant, automatically integrating:

Market prices (spot/futures) and your fixed prices

The TURPE (French electricity transmission tariff) and any applicable reductions

New products: self-consumption, PPAs, storage, etc.

Taxes and contributions

Regulatory issues (peak days, VNU, etc.)

Any specific components of your contract

The industry’s electricity challenges, and HIGHCAST’s answer

Market volatility

14-day price forecasting + optimal production planning.

Lack of visibility

Real-time costs, decision support, measured gains.

Mental overload

Zero planning errors, only takes 5 minutes per day to manage effectively.

Multi-contract complexity

Dissected contracts, unified TEC, complete vision of the instant price.

Lack of synchronisation between teams

A shared platform, with the same data for everyone.

Competitiveness under threat

Secure your margins, never at the expense of production.

AI that aligns energy, production and performance

Manage and optimize industrial production according to the real cost of electricity

HIGHCAST offers the industrial site an immediate, reliable and shared vision of real cost of electricity, as close as possible to operational uses.

Thanks to the historical analysis of consumption data, the user follows the fine evolution of his electrical demand, compares it to his Total Electricity Cost, identifies the most expensive periods and precisely understands the impact of production choices on the bill. Comparisons between lines, workshops, teams or production weeks make it possible to objectify performances and to detect levers for improvement.

The platform automatically integrates all the components of the invoice (supply contract, market price, TURPE, taxes and contributions) and displays in real time the instant cost per kWh consumed. HIGHCAST also secures the obtaining of TURPE rebates, a risk that is often underestimated but decisive in optimizing costs.

This comprehensive reporting gives the energy and production manager a faithful, shared and actionable vision of the real cost of the kWh consumed, facilitating operational decisions and uniting teams around the reduction of the electricity bill driven by data.

Each industrial site has room for manoeuvre, which is often underestimated or poorly formalized. HIGHCAST makes it possible to reveal, structure and activate the flexibilities that are really compatible with the process.

The solution adapts to the specificities of the field by integrating all business constraints: production objectives, operational sequences, minimum and maximum phase durations, buffer stocks, quality thresholds, unavailability, unavailability, planned maintenance, planned maintenance, energy limitations or internal rules specific to the site.

These constraints make it possible to identify the flexibilities that can be activated: load modulation, production lag, rate adjustment, temporary stops, erasure, or optimization of energy-consuming phases. HIGHCAST also clarifies what these flexibilities are and are not: no process risks, no quality degradation, no dependence on complex manual actions.

And when the flexibilities are not yet clearly identified, HIGHCAST can support the site in their diagnosis, in close collaboration with the production, maintenance and energy teams.

There is never just one way to produce. HIGHCAST allows you to simulate multiple operating scenarios, simultaneously integrating industrial constraints and economic conditions for electricity.

By comparing different operating modes with price forecasts, tariff signals, and technical limitations, the platform highlights cost differences, impacts on production, and associated risks. The site can thus compare robust scenarios, identify the most resilient options in the face of price volatility, and secure its energy budgets.

This scenario-based approach transforms uncertainty into informed choices and gives teams back control in the face of increasingly volatile electricity markets.

Once the constraints have been modeled and the scenarios defined, HIGHCAST activates its optimization engine to propose the best possible trade-offs..

The solution automatically identifies optimal production windows, opportunities for modulation or load shedding, as well as adjustments with high economic impact and low industrial impact. For each recommendation, the user can clearly see the expected gains, operational implications, and potential risks.

HIGHCAST thus transforms a complex industrial reality into concrete, actionable, and understandable recommendations, facilitating rapid, shared decisions that are aligned with the site's economic objectives.

HIGHCAST is a decision-making aid for teams.

Every action performed on the site (start-up, shutdown, speed change, line intervention) is recorded and tracked in HIGHCAST. This operational memory feeds into performance calculations, continuously improves flexibility activation, and creates a common basis for managing activities in relation to electricity costs.

Traceability enables information to be shared between teams, raises awareness among operators and managers of the energy impact of their decisions, and moves away from a purely theoretical approach. Planning becomes a genuine tool for coordination between production, energy, and maintenance, facilitating consistent and transparent management.

By uniting the organization around objective and shared data, HIGHCAST embeds electricity savings into the site's industrial culture for the long term.

Thanks to HIGHCAST, complex data is transformed into simple decisions, enabling each team to secure the site's energy performance, empower teams to take responsibility for production electricity costs, and contribute to the company's environmental objectives.

1. Understand and control your electricity costs

HIGHCAST provides industrial sites with an immediate, reliable, and shared view of the actual cost of electricity, closely aligned with operational usage.

Thanks to historical consumption data analysis, users can track detailed changes in their electricity demand, compare it with their Total Electricity Cost, identify the most expensive periods, and understand precisely how production choices impact their bills. Comparisons between lines, workshops, teams, or production weeks make it possible to objectively assess performance and identify areas for improvement.

The platform automatically integrates all components of the bill (supply contract, market price, TURPE, taxes, and contributions) and displays the instantaneous cost per kWh consumed in real time. HIGHCAST also secures TURPE reductions, a risk that is often underestimated but crucial in cost optimization.

This comprehensive reporting gives both energy and production managers an accurate, shared, and actionable view of the real cost per kWh consumed, facilitating operational decisions and uniting teams around data-driven electricity bill reduction.

2. Identify and activate your industrial flexibilities

Every industrial site has room for maneuver, which is often underestimated or poorly formalized. HIGHCAST reveals, structures, and activates the flexibilities that are truly compatible with the process.

The solution adapts to the specificities of the field by integrating all business constraints: production targets, operational sequences, minimum and maximum phase durations, buffer stocks, quality thresholds, unavailability, planned maintenance, energy limitations, or site-specific internal rules.

These constraints make it possible to identify the flexibilities that can be activated: load modulation, production shifting, pace adjustment, temporary shutdowns, elimination, or optimization of energy-intensive phases. HIGHCAST also clarifies what these flexibilities are and are not: no risk to the process, no degradation in quality, no dependence on complex manual actions.

And when flexibilities are not yet clearly identified, HIGHCAST can assist the site in diagnosing them, working closely with the production, maintenance, and energy teams.

3. Explore possible scenarios and secure budgets

There is never just one way to produce. HIGHCAST allows you to simulate multiple operating scenarios, simultaneously integrating industrial constraints and economic conditions for electricity.

By comparing different operating modes with price forecasts, tariff signals, and technical limitations, the platform highlights cost differences, impacts on production, and associated risks. The site can thus compare robust scenarios, identify the most resilient options in the face of price volatility, and secure its energy budgets.

This scenario-based approach transforms uncertainty into informed choices and gives teams back control in the face of increasingly volatile electricity markets.

4. Decide, record, and share information

Once the constraints have been modeled and the scenarios defined, HIGHCAST activates its optimization engine to propose the best possible trade-offs.

The solution automatically identifies optimal production windows, opportunities for modulation or load shedding, as well as adjustments with high economic impact and low industrial impact. For each recommendation, the user can clearly see the expected gains, operational implications, and potential risks.

HIGHCAST thus transforms a complex industrial reality into concrete, actionable, and understandable recommendations, facilitating rapid, shared decisions that are aligned with the site's economic objectives.

HIGHCAST is a decision-making aid for teams.

5. Manage over the long term and bring yours teams together

Traceability enables information to be shared between teams, raises awareness among operators and managers of the energy impact of their decisions, and moves away from a purely theoretical approach. Planning becomes a genuine tool for coordination between production, energy, and maintenance, facilitating consistent and transparent management.

By uniting the organization around objective and shared data, HIGHCAST embeds electricity savings into the site's industrial culture for the long term.

Thanks to HIGHCAST, complex data is transformed into simple decisions, enabling each team to secure the site's energy performance, empower teams to take responsibility for production electricity costs, and contribute to the company's environmental objectives.

Some use cases

Energy manager

For an energy manager, effectively managing consumption and identifying reliable ways to optimize reduction and protect the bill are daily challenges, often limited by the operational complexity of workshops and electricity contracts.

After optimizing the contract and reducing consumption through energy efficiency and process optimization, flexibility becomes a key factor in exceeding the ceiling reached, activating new ways to reduce bills, and uniting teams around a common project.

HIGHCAST provides a direct response by offering a unified and actionable view of processes, whether they are batch, continuous, or buffer-based.

The solution highlights real sources of flexibility—without disrupting production—by automatically integrating industrial constraints, operating histories, energy needs, and margins of maneuver validated with technical teams.

Highcast anticipates periods of high prices, proposes the best management scenarios, calculates expected savings, and makes trade-offs clear to management.

Thanks to HIGHCAST, energy managers can transform complex data into simple decisions, secure the site's energy performance, sustainably reduce electricity costs, empower teams to take responsibility for production electricity costs, and contribute to the company's environmental objectives, all with an intuitive, reliable tool designed for the field.

Production manager

For a production manager, the priority is clear: ensure continuity of operations, maintain production rates, meet customer commitments, and ensure workshop safety.

HIGHCAST fits naturally into this approach by offering energy optimization that is fully aligned with industrial requirements. The solution analyzes real-world constraints—cycle times, machine capacities, operational sequences, buffer stock levels, quality requirements—in order to identify only those control levers that are compatible with production.

HIGHCAST allows you to visualize, for each line or process, the risk-free flexibility windows, possible adjustments (modulation, anticipation, optimal sequencing), and the impact on production costs.

The tool then becomes a reliable decision-making aid: it helps absorb electricity price increases while ensuring planning stability, operational safety, and customer satisfaction.

With HIGHCAST, energy performance becomes an operational asset, supporting robust, controlled, and more resilient production.

Batch

For manufacturers operating batch processes, HIGHCAST offers a unique approach that enables intelligent planning of each production sequence while controlling energy costs.

The solution models all batch parameters: minimum and maximum phase durations, dependencies between stages, operational and technical constraints, incompressible times, and equipment-specific flexibility margins.

Based on this data, HIGHCAST automatically generates an optimized schedule that takes into account future electricity prices, system alerts (peak hours, network signals, ENEDIS/RTE constraints), and production targets.

The user can see at a glance in the “real-time costs” view the ideal launch windows, the possibilities for shifting or grouping cycles, and the associated gains.

This orchestration not only reduces costs, but also lowers the carbon footprint by favoring periods of high renewable availability.

By integrating HIGHCAST, industrial sites transform a rigid batch process into an agile, data-driven process aligned with economic and energy challenges.

Stable profile

For sites with stable and continuous processes, HIGHCAST provides particularly valuable energy management capabilities.

The solution analyzes the power demand and associated operational constraints: incompressible operating ranges, technical thresholds to be respected, thermal or mechanical requirements, and limited modulation margins.

Based on these parameters, HIGHCAST identifies optimization levers that are accessible even in a process with little flexibility: fine load adjustments, synchronization with price signals, anticipation of costly periods, management of auxiliary or non-critical consumption, and opportunities for load shedding without impacting production.

Thanks to this approach, a stable process—traditionally perceived as difficult to optimize—becomes a controllable energy item, where every kWh is valued.

Operation after operation, HIGHCAST thus makes it possible to sustainably reduce electricity costs, improve budget predictability, and contribute to energy performance objectives, without compromising the stability and continuity of the process.

Buffer stock

For industries with buffer stock between two production stages, HIGHCAST transforms this waiting area into flexibility, a real lever for optimizing electricity costs.

The solution converts storage capacity into production time. Acceptable minimum and maximum levels, filling and emptying speeds, and upstream and downstream synchronization constraints are all ways of adapting production to market signals.

By analyzing these parameters in relation to electricity market signals (spot prices, system alerts, periods of grid tension), HIGHCAST offers intelligent management of the production-storage combination: increasing throughput when energy is cheaper, slowing down or stabilizing when prices rise, or even anticipating price peaks thanks to optimal stock levels.

This allows manufacturers to visualize possible scenarios and the associated gains, while ensuring continuity of flow and product quality.

With HIGHCAST, buffer stock becomes a strategic tool for reducing costs and increasing the site's energy resilience.