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Cold storage capacity planner

Load the season's harvest into the district's cold stores month by month and see where capacity runs out. Change the inputs; the link updates so you can share your scenario.

Note: the 2024-25 and 2025-26 harvests have already taken place, but official figures aren't in ColdFlow's data yet (latest record: 2023-24). The figures shown for these seasons are model estimates pending official data.

Default is a placeholder. Use the registered capacity from the UP Horticulture cold storage list.

What if… test shocks before they happen

Tariff and energy use are placeholders. Enter your own for real costs.

Capacity default is an assumption Intake profile is an assumption

Capacity needed for this season:1.02M tto avoid any deficit ·1.14M tto stay under your alert threshold
Harvest
1.36M t
2023-24
Storage demand
1.02M t
75% of harvest
District coverage
93.0%
Your facility covers
0.98%
of regional demand

Stock vs capacity by month

Peak harvest shaded February–April

  • Stock in cold storage
  • Unmet storage demand
  • Capacity
  • Alert threshold

What this means in practice

Derived from the figures above

    Redistribution plan

    Optimised with a linear program: store as much as possible, then haul as little as possible

    Demo on modelled data
    Stored with redistribution
    —
    Extra stored by moving
    —
    Haul
    —
    Freight estimate
    —
    enter a rate

    Holding economics

    Electricity to keep this season's stock cold

    Estimate
    Power cost, season
    Per tonne stored
    over the storage season
    Energy used
    Harvest after what-if

    Peak-harvest months

    Where the alert comes from

    MonthIntakeStock demandedUtilisationStatus