Up to 45%
of an industrial bill can be demand and NMD charges
Augos measures your site every minute and switches load at the breaker on the rules you set. It sheds to hold your peak below the limit, and shifts work out of the expensive peak window into cheaper hours. The platform decides, the contactors act, and your team stays free to run the plant.
You have breakers that could shed or shift on demand, tariff, schedule or a loadshedding signal. Without automation they just run, and the cost lands on the bill before anyone notices.
Your demand charge is fixed by your highest half-hour. One coincident spike, and it's set for the whole month.
Shiftable work runs straight through the expensive peak window, or overnight when nobody needs it, because nothing retimes it.
Loadshedding hits, or a site condition changes, and the right load only switches if someone remembers to do it.
No one can watch demand, tariffs and conditions every minute and switch breakers in time. So most of the time, nothing does.
Augos measures load every minute and does two jobs. It sheds non-critical load to hold the peak below your limit, and it shifts shiftable work out of the expensive peak window into cheaper hours. The platform decides on the rules you set, and contactors on the breakers do the switching.
Load measured every minute against your notified limit, so the forming peak is visible while there's still time to act on it.
As demand approaches the limit, the platform sheds or retimes load by switching contactors on the breakers, with no one needed on the floor.
Shiftable load is moved out of the expensive peak window, not just dropped, so the work still runs, on cheaper energy.
Switch on time of use, demand, schedule, weather or telemetry, or loadshedding times. You set the rules, the platform runs them, and critical load is ring-fenced.
A short path from blind to in-control, with no one needed on the floor to throw switches when it counts.
Nova metering at your supply, capturing demand at 1-minute resolution against your notified limit.
Identify which circuits can shed or shift, for how long, and which are critical and never touched.
Contactors are fitted to the breakers you want to control, wired back to the platform so it can switch them automatically.
You set the switching rules, on time of use, demand, schedule or a loadshedding signal, test them against live load, and adjust as your operation changes. From there it runs automatically, every billing cycle.
Holding the monthly peak below your limit cuts the maximum-demand charge on every bill, the largest controllable line on most industrial accounts.
Load is shed before demand crosses the notified maximum, so you stop triggering penalties that otherwise persist for months.
Shiftable load is retimed out of the peak window automatically, running the same work on standard or off-peak rates.
No one watches a screen or runs to a panel. The rules you set run themselves, every day.
You ring-fence what can never be switched. Shedding only ever touches the circuits you've cleared.
Every shed, shift and avoided breach is logged against measured demand, so the saving is auditable, not assumed.
Source · NERSA tariff structures and demand-management practice · figures typical, vary by site and tariff
Source · Augos customer deployments · demand-control figures indicative, to be confirmed per site
You need metering to measure demand, and contactors on the breakers you want to control. The metering is the same Nova hardware, and the control work is scoped to your site.
CTs and installation materials may be required to complete the hardware install.
The switching hardware is sized to your site: the load on each circuit, the breakers you want to control, and how they're wired. So the equipment and its monthly fee are quoted once we've scoped it with you.
Switching hardware and its monthly fee are quoted on the circuits and load to be managed
Load control is a service, scoped and priced on its own. But every Augos site also gets the full Energy Intelligence suite, included: a dozen reports and tools running on the same calibrated meter and tariff engine, ready whenever you need them.
For the technically minded. Every figure on this page traces back to the Augos Nova, a billing-accuracy meter, independently calibrated and traceable to national standards.
Manual shedding depends on someone noticing the peak and being free to act. Automated control watches every half-hour and switches in under a minute, including the peaks that form while your team is busy with something else.
Shedding drops non-critical load for a short spell to hold the peak below your limit, which cuts the demand charge. Shifting moves work that can run at any time, such as pumping, milling or heating, out of the expensive peak window into cheaper standard or off-peak hours, so the same work costs less. Augos does both, on the rules you set.
Only on the circuits you clear. Critical load is ring-fenced and never switched. Shiftable and non-critical load is shed briefly or retimed, sized so your output is protected.
Power factor correction fixes reactive power. Demand control acts on real load, shedding or retiming it to hold the peak. Many sites need both, and both run on the same meter.
Demand is measured every minute. When it approaches your notified limit, the platform switches the contactor on the chosen breaker within a minute, before the half-hour closes.
Notified maximum demand is the level you have contracted with your supplier. Exceed it and the penalty can inflate your charges for up to twelve months, long after the spike. Holding the peak below it avoids that entirely.
Both. We fit contactors to the breakers you choose and wire them back to the platform, which makes the switching decisions on the rules you set, or we work alongside your own contractor if you prefer.
The Nova metering is a fixed once-off plus a monthly fee per point. The switching equipment, the contactors and control gear, is sized to your site's load and infrastructure, so the equipment and its monthly fee are quoted once we've scoped it with you.
Book a demo and we'll show you how Augos shaves your peak and shifts load into cheaper hours.