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Peak-shaving optimiser[archived]

FirstPoint Energy · client work · Dec 2025 to Feb 2026

A peak-shaving threshold optimiser for an energy systems company, on the HiGHS linear-programming solver's WebAssembly build, run inside AWS Lambda.

A prototype for FirstPoint Energy: a peak-shaving optimiser on the HiGHS solver's WebAssembly build, bundled to run in Lambda, with a seasonal projection, a battery configuration model and site equipment metadata behind a React interface. The client then took it in-house.

120 merged PRs in nine weeks

stack: TypeScript, React, HiGHS, WebAssembly, AWS Lambda, Terraform

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what	when	stack
Bates Solutions · experiment	Sep 2026 to now	React, TypeScript, d3, AWS
Bates Solutions · experiment	Sep 2026 to now	TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Chrome extension
client work	Mar 2026 to now	React, TypeScript, Nx, Hono
Bates Solutions · open source	Jan 2026 to now	TypeScript, Vitest, JSR
FirstPoint Energy · client work	Dec 2025 to Feb 2026	TypeScript, React, HiGHS, WebAssembly
client work	Dec 2025 to now	React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Supabase
Ocean Wise · client work	Sep 2025 to now	NestJS, TypeScript, Prisma, MySQL
Bates Solutions · own product	Mar 2025 to now	Next.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, API Gateway
Bates Solutions · own product	2019 to now	Angular, TypeScript, Nx, AWS Lambda
client work	2013 to 2024	PHP, Symfony, API Platform, Angular
OpsKwan Technologies · client work	2009 to 2024	PHP, CakePHP, MySQL, JavaScript

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