Scaling for MHHS: how Octopus Energy achieved a 50x cost reduction in margin data engineering
Octopus Energy re-architected its margin data pipelines to handle the UK's 48x data surge from Market-wide Half-Hourly Settlement (MHHS). By splitting a monolithic pipeline into three specialized streams, a team of three engineers cut costs 50x—saving $1M/year—while scaling for half-hourly granularity.