Energy Management: The Landlord's Key to Higher Profits
For landlords, energy management isn't about controlling tenant usage; it's about optimizing your bulk supply to maximize profitability. The Augos platform provides the tools to analyze your main supply, correct Power Factor, manage demand charges, and account for all energy, directly increasing your profit margin.
The Landlord's View: Optimizing Your Bulk Supply for Profit
In a tenant billing operation, you cannot control your tenants' actual usage. Your path to increased profitability lies in reducing the costs of your bulk supply. By actively managing the technical and financial parameters of your main incomer, you directly lower your primary cost, which widens the profit margin between what you pay the municipality and what you recover from tenants.
Localized E-E-A-T Fact
In major South African municipalities, Notified Maximum Demand (NMD) and Power Factor penalties can account for over 30% of a large property's bulk electricity bill. Actively managing these factors using a platform like Augos provides a direct and significant return on investment by lowering these specific, high-cost charges.
Your Toolkit for Landlord-Side Efficiency
Our platform provides a suite of landlord-focused efficiency tools, each designed to give you the actionable intelligence needed to reduce your primary costs.
Consumption Breakdown
Use this tool to perform a full energy balance on your property. It ensures every kilowatt-hour you purchase is accounted for, whether it's billed to a tenant, used in a common area, or consumed by a vacant unit. This eliminates "financial leakage."
Power Factor & Demand Analysis
Diagnose the root cause of high demand charges (kVA) and Power Factor penalties on your bulk bill. This report provides the clear business case needed to invest in Power Factor Correction (PFC) equipment to reduce these significant costs.
Time of Use (TOU) Analysis
Identify expensive energy waste during non-trading hours. This report breaks down your bulk consumption into Peak, Standard, and Off-Peak periods, highlighting opportunities to optimize common area systems like central HVAC or lighting.
Technical Analysis
The deep-dive diagnostic tool for your technical team. Use it to investigate power quality issues, find the source of main breaker trips, and provide irrefutable, granular evidence when discussing technical issues with tenants or service providers.
The Tenant's View: Optional Tools for Efficiency
Since energy invoices are often a point of contention, providing tenants with tools to understand their own bills can significantly reduce disputes. The Augos platform includes an optional Tenant Efficiency Toolkit that you can choose to provide to tenants, giving them access to their own version of these reports to help them manage their costs.
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