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    How Aveum runs your home at the lowest cost

    Aveum reads your electricity prices and schedules your devices around the cheapest windows — automatically, every 30 minutes.

    How Aveum works

    1
    Reads your electricity price
    Aveum pulls your live or day-ahead tariff prices — flat, timed, or half-hourly. It always knows what electricity costs right now and what it will cost later today.
    2
    Schedules your devices around the cheapest windows
    EV charging, battery charging, heat pump pre-heating — anything Aveum controls gets moved to the cheapest slots automatically.
    3
    Makes a new decision every 30 minutes
    Aveum runs continuously throughout the day and night. Each half-hour slot is evaluated against your constraints and the latest prices.
    4
    Reports what it did and why
    Every morning you get a plain-English summary of the decisions made, the cost of each action, and the estimated saving.

    How different tariffs affect optimisation potential

    Aveum works on any tariff. The more your price varies across the day, the more there is to optimise. These are illustrative ranges based on a typical UK home — actual results depend on your setup and usage.

    Tariff typePrice structureWhat Aveum can doTypical range
    Flat-rate tariffSame price all dayShift load to off-peak windows where available~£50–£200/yr
    Fixed overnight windowCheaper rate during set hours (e.g. 00:30–05:30)Automatically schedule EV, battery, and appliances into the cheap window~£200–£450/yr
    Half-hourly variablePrice changes every 30 minutes, set the day beforeFull optimisation — Aveum picks the cheapest slots across the entire day~£400–£1,000/yr

    Ranges are illustrative, not guarantees. Actual savings depend on your devices, consumption pattern, tariff rates, and how much load can be shifted.

    The optimisation principle

    Price variability is the engine of savings. The bigger the gap between cheap and expensive electricity, the more Aveum can save by shifting your load. On a flat tariff that gap is small. On a half-hourly variable tariff it can exceed 30p/kWh within the same day.

    Aveum makes 48 scheduling decisions every day. Even on a tariff with a single overnight window, automating that shift reliably for every device — EV, battery, heat pump — adds up to material savings over the year.

    Aveum is not a tariff tool. It's a continuous scheduling system that works across any price structure. Switching to a more variable tariff gives Aveum more to work with — but the automation is valuable regardless.

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