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Case studies
Results from real sites.
Businesses using Augos: the problem, what we measured, and what changed, each with its basis.
Augos is the energy back office for multisite businesses in South Africa: energy management software, bill verification and independent advisers, checking what every site should pay against the meter and the tariff.
21 case studies
Manufacturing
0.92 leading on a short panel
Chet Chemicals
A PFC panel short of kVAr that still read leading: a worn contactor, a blown fuse and capacitors losing capacitance.
Read the case study ›Food & Beverage
0.99 on the controller, 147.1 of 180 kVAr
Eagle Springs
Why a good controller reading still needs an annual survey: a burned contactor, caught early.
Read the case study ›Agri-processing
A R10,019 alert, really R19,923 a year
I&J Aquaculture
A 0.99 power factor alert at I&J's abalone farm, checked against the Overstrand tariff, and six PFC panels surveyed.
Read the case study ›Food & Beverage
185 of 250 kVAr, back to 258.7
In2Foods
Blown fuses and half-rated capacitors in a PFC bank that never tripped, found on survey and fixed.
Read the case study ›Manufacturing
PFC that slipped from 1.00 to 0.86
Much Asphalt
Seventeen good months, then about R12,000 a month in avoidable demand. How the data caught it and what the survey found.
Read the case study ›Beverages
R60k a month from one tariff change
Continental Beverages (PepsiCo)
A rezoned Bloemfontein site moved from Centlec's Elecflex 3 to Commflex, dropping the demand charges and saving about R60,000 a month.
Read the case study ›Manufacturing
A R600k a year tariff win
Falke South Africa
Submetering found the real energy users, and a tariff migration with the City of Cape Town unlocked around R600,000 a year.
Read the case study ›Property / Facilities
A self-funded energy programme
Sanlam
Low-cost savings funded the capital retrofits, alongside a R3.2m tariff win in year one.
Read the case study ›Hospitality
Measurement and behaviour, at zero cost
One&Only Cape Town
Measurement plus a human-centric, zero-cost programme of operational and behavioural change.
Read the case study ›Food & Beverage
A 16-month payback on power factor
Bokomo Savoury Foods
A turnkey PFC system eliminated reactive-energy charges and paid back in 16 months, now saving around R19,500 a month.
Read the case study ›Retail
Fire-safe PFC across 500+ stores
Major South African retailer
After three PFC fires, a retail giant surveyed, upgraded and fire-protected every panel across more than 500 sites.
Read the case study ›Agri-processing
More capacity, no Eskom upgrade
Free State broiler house
Power factor correction cut maximum demand and freed headroom within the existing Eskom limit, stopping the breaker trips.
Read the case study ›Hospitality
Fair cooling costs across four properties
Jumeirah Group
BTU thermal-energy metering allocates a shared chilled-water plant's cost by each property's real off-take, minute by minute.
Read the case study ›Property / Facilities
A R1.15m council billing credit
Sanlam Sky Houghton
Base-load optimisation, power factor correction and verified data that recovered a R1.15 million council overbilling credit.
Read the case study ›Hospitality
Measuring sustainable luxury
Sandals Resorts
Real-time measurement across electricity, water and gas, from rooms to pools, cutting waste and carbon footprint.
Read the case study ›Hospitality
Reversing a council demand error
Vineyard Hotel
Independent Augos data disproved a council kVA demand spike and reversed the incorrect charges.
Read the case study ›Manufacturing
The measurement backbone for ISO 50001
Karob Plastics
Per-minute tracking, machine-level logging and bill verification underpinning the path to ISO 50001 certification since 2012.
Read the case study ›Fuel retail
An unapplied 220,692 kWh credit, recovered
Engen Highveld One Stop
A City of Ekurhuleni credit sat unapplied for a year until Augos claimed it. The City re-billed four months and refunded.
Read the case study ›Asphalt production
R105,344.39 in three months on Tariff E (Augos calculation)
Much Asphalt
A move from Ekurhuleni Tariff C to time-of-use Tariff E from 1 July 2025, with billed amounts compared against Tariff C.
Read the case study ›Milling
Cutting a closing mill's NMD from 1,500 kVA to 175 kVA.
Pioneer Foods (PepsiCo South Africa)
As Pioneer Foods' Estcourt Mill closed, its notified maximum demand was cut, a saving Augos calculates at R441,105.75 a month on the 2025/26 demand rate.
Read the case study ›Food manufacturing
Pioneer Foods tariff programme worth R13,185,722.00 by 2021.
Pioneer Foods (PepsiCo South Africa)
Every site reviewed after each tariff revision and seven tariffs changed, worth R13,185,722.00 excl VAT by end 2021 (Augos calculation).
Read the case study ›Free site assessment
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