Augos partnered with Sanlam on a multi-year energy management programme to hit aggressive sustainability targets. The strategy reallocated savings from low-to-no-cost behavioural changes to fund major capital projects, such as chiller and lighting retrofits. That continuous momentum delivered cumulative baseline savings exceeding 31.3% by year two, far surpassing the original long-term goal.
Sanlam approached Augos with a highly strategic, ambitious goal: to meet challenging sustainability targets through significant electricity savings over a three-year timeframe. The Augos proposal focused on a self-funding strategy, using verifiable savings from immediate, low-to-no-cost behavioural changes to finance the larger capital projects that followed.
The plan had three objectives: achieve immediate savings through behavioural change and operational tuning, reallocate those realised savings to fund comprehensive lighting and chiller retrofits, then reach a long-term total reduction target.
A core element of the success was R3.2 million in tariff optimisation savings realised in the first year. Identified and implemented by Augos, this strategic adjustment provided an immediate, substantial influx of capital, effectively de-risking the entire three-year programme and showing the importance of optimising utility financial structures before investing in expensive hardware.
The initial focus was on operational changes guided by energy data, delivering rapid return:
Phase 1 delivered an 11.8% reduction in energy consumption against baseline in year one, solely through these low-to-no-cost interventions.
The momentum from the initial savings funded the capital phases, which delivered large, sustained reductions:
Through a multi-year programme that combined behavioural change, tariff optimisation and funded capital retrofits. Cumulative baseline savings exceeded 31.3% by the close of year two.
Savings from immediate low-to-no-cost behavioural changes were reallocated to fund larger capital projects, such as lighting and chiller retrofits, so the programme paid for itself as it went.
R3.2 million in the first year. That early influx of capital de-risked the entire three-year programme before any expensive hardware was installed.
An 11.8% reduction in energy consumption against baseline, achieved solely through low-to-no-cost interventions.
Tariff optimisation, off-peak load optimisation through Building Management System tuning, chiller set-point adjustments, and an investigation into moving from desktops to laptops.
A lighting retrofit, which saved 6.2 million kWh in year two, and chiller retrofits, both paid for out of the savings generated earlier.
Yes, and early. The year-eight target of a 10% reduction was already surpassed by the close of year two.
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