Heavy industrial and mining sites have the highest electrical loads in the client base, and the consequences of getting the metering wrong are the largest. Maximum demand penalties, royalty calculations, effluent charges, and environmental reporting all live or die on whether the metering layer is audited and defensible.
What’s different about mining
- Demand profile is the cost driver. kVA peaks set the tariff structure for the year. Visibility into 30-minute peaks, and the ability to model the saving from a 50-100 kVA reduction, pays back faster on a mining site than almost anywhere else.
- Effluent and water billing are big-ticket items. Multi-source supply (potable + process + recycled) needs metering per source and per outflow. Reconciliation against the local authority’s bill surfaces gaps regularly.
- Multiple supply sources. Eskom feeds, IPP feeds, own-generation (diesel, gas, solar). Attribution per source is essential for cost-control, sustainability reporting, and contract management.
- Royalty and environmental reporting demand audited data. Estimated metering doesn’t hold up to a Department of Mineral Resources audit. We provide the metering layer that does.
What an engagement typically covers
- Smart electricity, water, and effluent metering across the operational and contractor footprints.
- Comms retrofits onto existing meters where the fleet is recent enough to be worth keeping.
- Multi-feed reconciliation, Eskom + IPP + own-generation separated and attributed correctly.
- NMD modelling + Power Factor analysis + Night Usage detection.
- ESG-grade monthly reporting through the Insights platform, exportable for board, environmental, and royalty audits.