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Volue BoFiT is a no-code techno-economic optimisation and planning platform for municipal utilities, energy producers, industrial companies, and marketing service providers. BoFiT provides technically feasible generation plans, trade recommendations, and forecasts across all planning horizons.

Multiple Commodities Portfolio at Maximum Efficiency.

Volue BoFiT is built for energy portfolios where multiple commodities interact: electricity, heat, steam, gas, power, hydrogen and others. It transforms this complexity into a single optimization model formulated as a Mixed-Integer Linear Program (MILP) and solves it to produce technically feasible, margin-maximising plant schedules — across every planning horizon, from long-term investment decisions to intraday market execution. And as your portfolio evolves, adding heat pumps, electrolysers, or battery storage on the path to net zero, BoFiT allows for modelling and evaluation of the transition scenarios before you commit capital, and optimises the new assets from day one. No coding or mathematical expertise required.

KEY FEATURES

Portfolio Optimisation

BoFiT translates your asset portfolio into a Mixed-Integer Linear Program (MILP), solved by industrial-grade solvers to produce technically feasible, margin-maximising plant schedules across all planning horizons. Modelling is done graphically based on a library of 150+ pre-built components (CHP plants, heat pumps, storages, electrolysers, heat networks, and more) means your energy engineers model and maintain the portfolio themselves, without solver expertise or custom code.

Multi-Commodity Forecasting

BoFiT has an integrated forecasting module for all commodity streams in a multi-energy portfolio: electricity generation and consumption, heat and steam demand, and market prices. Models ANN, SARIMAX, and regression are built and recalibrated directly within BoFiT, eliminating the data handoffs between disconnected systems. Because forecasting and optimisation share the same platform, every optimisation can be driven by the most current forecast available — not a version exported hours earlier.

Intraday Trading Integration

BoFiT generates cyclical trade recommendations from real-time order book data, benefiting from market volatility while keeping your intraday position aligned with the current portfolio state throughout the trading day. BoFiT provides interfaces to Volue's trading software for customers with direct and indirect market access. In addition to the trading interfaces, BoFiT allows the import of market data from Volue Intraday AlgoTrader. 

Workflow Engine

The Workflow Engine automates data transfers, optimisation runs, forecasting, and reporting. Once set up, dispatch operators focus on exceptions rather than regular process execution. For multi-site and third-party asset portfolios, this automation is what makes scaling without headcount growth operationally viable.

Thedora Dashboard

Thedora Dashboard is a cloud-based operational interface available as an optional SaaS add-on. It keeps dispatch operators and portfolio managers up to date by providing a view of portfolio state, optimisation results, forecasts, and market positions from any browser, anywhere. No additional IT infrastructure is required. Available as a SaaS subscription bundle alongside BoFiT.

Portfolio Optimisation

BoFiT translates your asset portfolio into a Mixed-Integer Linear Program (MILP), solved by industrial-grade solvers to produce technically feasible, margin-maximising plant schedules across all planning horizons. Modelling is done graphically based on a library of 150+ pre-built components (CHP plants, heat pumps, storages, electrolysers, heat networks, and more) means your energy engineers model and maintain the portfolio themselves, without solver expertise or custom code.

BENEFITS

Energy & Heat Transition

Model and investigate decarbonisation pathways before committing capital, then optimise the new assets on the same platform from day one. BoFiT handles fossil and green energy carriers side by side as your portfolio evolves.

No Coding Required

Model any multi-commodity energy portfolio using a graphical library of 150+ pre-built components. Your energy engineers build and maintain the model themselves. The level of external consultanting, is up to you.

Integrated Forecast-to-Trade Workflow

With multi-commodity demand forecasting and optimization to intraday trade recommendations, BoFiT connects every step of the planning chain in a single platform with no manual handoffs between systems.

Multiple Market Channels

BoFiT supports optimization across multiple market channels and covers all planning horizons: investments, long/medium/short term planning as well as performance monitoring.

SaaS or On-Premise

Deploy BoFiT as a hosted SaaS solution or on your own infrastructure, with implementation support and ongoing service available in German and English. With Thedora Dashboard, BoFiT can be extended with a web-based user interface.

USE CASES

Any company generating its own energy across multiple carriers — electricity, heat, steam — faces a daily dispatch challenge that manual planning cannot handle reliably: each commodity stream has its own constraints, costs, and market dynamics, and they are interdependent. Getting to a technically feasible, cost-optimal plan manually takes hours and still can't guarantee the best outcome.

BoFiT handles this complexity in a single optimisation run. The result is a mathematically proven, margin-maximising generation schedule covering the full day-ahead and intraday horizon — traceable, audit-ready, and recalculated automatically as conditions change.

As intraday markets grow more important for managing residual imbalances, energy operators need trade recommendations that reflect the current portfolio state — not a plan calculated hours ago.

BoFiT generates continuous intraday trade recommendations based on live order book data. Customers hold direct EPEX SPOT access via Volue Intraday AlgoTrader and BoFiT keeps the intraday position current throughout the trading day — reducing imbalance costs and capturing short-term market opportunities that manual planning cannot systematically identify.

The most strategically valuable use of BoFiT is often not today's schedule — it is tomorrow's investment decision. Municipal utilities are planning their heat transition (Wärmeplanung), and industrial companies are modelling the shift from fossil to green energy use, using BoFiT to simulate decarbonisation pathways, evaluate new asset configurations, and assess the operational and financial implications before committing capital.

Once the investment is made, those same new assets — electrolysers, heat pumps, BESS, solar thermal — are optimised within BoFiT from day one. The simulation platform and the operations platform are the same, eliminating the gap between planning and execution that typically causes delays and costly surprises.

Energy-intensive industrial companies — in chemical, paper, and manufacturing — generating their own process steam and electricity face the same optimisation challenge as municipal utilities, at industrial scale and complexity.

BoFiT models multi-commodity portfolios spanning power, steam, heat, and potentially hydrogen, calculating the lowest-cost operating strategy while meeting all process constraints and identifying market participation opportunities. For large industrial sites, this translates directly into measurable reductions in energy procurement and fuel costs.

Marketing service providers and energy trading companies managing third-party generation assets use BoFiT to maintain a structured, automated optimisation and forecasting workflow across multiple client portfolios.

The combination of the Workflow Engine and Thedora Dashboard enables centralised oversight and automated reporting, making it operationally viable to manage complex, multi-site portfolios without proportional headcount growth. In Switzerland, one operator has built an Optimisation-as-a-Service model for waste incineration plants on this foundation.

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