Read our executive brief and our notes on the market and renewable fuel rules. Then explore the questions customers ask and a worked example for your own site.
It explains what Terrafa does for an energy business, and how every team sees the cost of an option before it decides.
It sets out what energy businesses buy today to run their sites, and where the technology they run on is moving.
It explains how the renewable fuel rules have changed, and what the change means for how you blend and store fuel.
Tell us about one of your sites. An engineer will work through what Terrafa would change there, and we agree in writing what success looks like.
Terrafa runs the whole operation as one system. Continuum Core connects the systems the business already uses, so every tank, machine, movement, contract and cost sits in one live operation. Gamma, our physics and engineering models, prices each decision before it is taken, in pounds per tonne or per MWh. When the lab sees a tank ageing, the traders see it the same day with the value it is losing, operations plans the loading and finance sees the stock value change. Nobody waits for a weekly report or another team’s spreadsheet.
Terrafa works across energy, new energy, commodities and defence: oil and gas, refining and blending, storage and terminals, distribution and trading, power and data centres, renewables and bioenergy, hydrogen, ammonia and methanol, sustainable aviation fuel, agriculture and food, metals and mining, and defence. The same Core and Gamma run in each. What changes is what we load for the site: tanks, duty and nominations at a fuel terminal, engines and run-hour permits at a site that makes its own power, or feedstock and supplier contracts at a bioenergy plant. Most customers start with fuel, where product, plant and money meet most often.
Every team uses it, each on its own screens of the same operation. Operations teams plan receipts, transfers, loadings and dispatch, and each stage, from fill to release, completes itself when the data shows it is done. Quality and laboratory teams release each batch to the specification in its contract. Commercial teams handle nominations, exchanges, claims and demurrage. Finance sees stock value, duty, VAT and borrowing headroom every day. Engineers see machine health and permit limits, and every alert names the action, its due time and the cost of acting or waiting. Managers see every site and country as one business.
No. Terrafa connects to what you already run: historians such as PI, plant systems over OPC UA, Modbus and MQTT, terminal automation, gauging and metering, laboratory systems, SAP and other ERPs, trading systems, and HMRC’s EMCS for duty-suspended movements. Connections are read-only by default, so nothing changes in your existing systems unless you choose to let Terrafa write back. Core also arrives with energy already built in: parcels, contracts, duty and funding sit beside tanks and movements, so there are no months of set-up before it is useful.
In three steps. First, an engineer looks at your sites, your systems and the decisions that cost you most. Second, we set up one site with your engineers: we connect its systems, load its tanks, machines, contracts and rules into Core, and agree in writing what success looks like before we start. Third, the site goes live, usually inside a quarter. Every new site then starts from the set-up of the first.
Gamma, our family of physics and engineering models, forecasts each tank and each machine from how they actually behave: how fuel ages and takes on water in storage, how a blend comes out, and how an engine or pump wears. It combines that with your contracts, prices and costs, and shows every option in money before you choose, whether that is to release, hold, blend, sell or test again. It also shows what one more laboratory test is worth before anyone pays for it. For example, it can show that a biodiesel blend will fall out of specification in about 40 days, so selling it this week is worth more than holding it.
Agents take the routine work off your teams. They draft nominations, duty returns, dispatch plans and stock reports, and they flag a tank nearing its limit or a machine due for work. Each agent works only within the rules and permissions your team sets, and your company’s own AI can connect in the same way, signed in as a named person with that person’s permissions. Everything an agent prepares stays a draft until a person with authority releases it, anyone can take control at any moment, and every action is recorded.
No. A first site goes live on the systems and readings you already have. Sense, our AI-embedded hardware, is added where knowing the product’s condition changes a decision: storage tanks holding blends that age, intake points that take variable feedstock, or lines where batches meet. Terrafa engineers fit it with no shutdown and look after it for its working life.
You own your data. We use it to run your operation and to improve our models, and no other customer ever sees your data. Core keeps every event, so when a claim or a dispute needs it, you can see the whole operation as it stood on any past day. Terrafa runs in our cloud in Europe or on your own premises, with sovereign hosting available, and your analysts can take any figure into Excel, query it through an API or connect their own AI tools with the permissions you set.
One engineering team designs the operating system, the physics models, the AI agents and the hardware together, so each part is built for the others. Our AI-embedded hardware is ATEX certified, with UKEX and IECEx under way, and it reads biodiesel content in diesel on site in seconds, within 0.16% v/v of the ASTM D7371 laboratory method. We publish our bench test records on our news page, and patents are pending in the UK, Europe and North America.
Yes, two. Our software has run across the sites of a European fuel trading and distribution group since March 2026, and the group signed after its trial. A bioenergy generator with four plants in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland had no single platform to run its sites under three sets of rules. After Terrafa connected its four plants on one model, boiler efficiency rose by 3.1 points. The full case is on our customers page.
You start with one site and success agreed in writing. As you add sites, hardware or engineering time, you draw on Continuum Flex, one yearly agreement, so you do not need a new purchase order each time. Talk to an engineer and we will work through what Terrafa would change on your own sites.
Tell us about your sites and an engineer will come back to you.