About us

"All enterprises need accurate measurement of consumption. The energy resource needs to be analysed promptly to ensure efficient usage to keep operating costs to a minimum."

Our systems and solutions allow consumers and suppliers to obtain accurate and reliable data. With this, they can easily monitor production and load levels, respond to alerts and, create unquestionable billing.

In order to supply an effective revenue and energy management service certain core competencies and technology systems need to be in place. What these core attributes are, can be summarised as follows:

• A through knowledge of tariff structures, pricing policies and cost of supply methods and models
• A comprehensive understanding of the utility business
• A real understanding of metering and meter design
• Existing technology and systems to deliver billing information, status events and network real-time monitoring of voltage and power quality so that customers can conduct their business with flexibility, functionality and cost efficiency

Consultancy, Experience and Track Record

We realise the need to work closely with our customers in order to understand their processes, costs, and business issues in order to provide competitive and profitable solutions. With this knowledge and our considerable expertise we are uniquely positioned to focus on the right stratergies to secure revenue in utility operations. Using applicable technologies to correctly analyse your utility revenue streams, our company puts forward proposals, which have a direct and positive impact on profitability.

We have within our organisation a recognised leading ability in; metering and meter design criteria, electricity pricing, tariff structures, electricity usage patterns and behaviour, a real understanding of the electricity industry structure and in utility management.

Experience Specifics

• Part of consultancy group advising Government on the restructuring of the ESI (Electricity Supply Industry) with specific focussing on pricing.
• Presented National Government and Cabinet with various analyses and pricing policy proposals.
• The development of a comprehensive cost of supply methodology for MTN’s main products namely; voice, data and SMS.
• Development of the new tariffs for City Power. (Tariffs to be implemented in June/July 2002)
• Member of the ESKOM pricing department with inputs into generation and transmission tariffs.
• Compilation of the business plan for the proposed Southern Cape Karoo RED (Regional Electricity Distributor).
• The analysis of and documentation of the revenue impact on ESKOM customers of the proposed ESKOM WET (Wholesale Electricity Tariff).
• Undertake a qualitative study on the impact of an ESI (Electricity Supply Industry) structure with RED’s on Spoornet.
• Complete a TOU (Time Of Use) tariff impact study for the total Tygerberg, Upington, Swaziland, Mozambique and other Munics.
• Compile a convincing business case for ESKOM’s Homeflex (TOU for residential) tariff leading to the introduction of this as an option.
• Develop pricing strategies for various municipalities such as; Beaufort West, Upington, Swaziland Electricity Board (SEB), Electricity De Mozambique (EDM), Sedgefield, etc
• Advise the NER on the implementation of the proposed ESKOM WET (Wholesale Electricity tariff).
• Effective recovery of an electricity energy management program, for the Cape Metropolitan Council in the; Mamre, Pella and Atlantis residential areas.
• Conducting of Field Trials for and on behalf of Actaris Industries in order to validate and verify the suitability of their products for supply into ESKOM on an ENC (ESKOM National Contract).

Company Strategy

Vision

We want to be the complete African metering and energy management supplier of choice!

African - because we expect to be aggressive, ethical and a successful competitor that offers access to most of the country's utility measurement requirements at the highest standard of customer service. We will continue to look for oppertunities to align our operation with ohter key players to provide a diversified front and thus extend our revenue base.

Metering - because we intend to stay in the business we know best - metering and its related services. We believe in thelong-term profitable growth with our alliance partners and we will continue to focus time, attention, and investment on enhancing our position within this industry.

Of Choice - Because we value the importance of our customers and our alliance partners.

Mission

The Power Measurement Group is a company committed to providing energy management, metering and allied products to the electrical utilities.

We specialise in performing a quality delivery service complimented with superior service backup. We will lead the way with our enthusiasm, optimism, patience, drive and commitment. We will work together to reduce the frustration on acquisitions by our customers by heightening their expectations. We will apply our expertise to benefit our customers through a thorough understanding of their requirements. Our customers are all who require expertise, metering and allied products and, our relationship with them sall be open and proactive.

Technologies and systems approach

As the leading supplier of Automatic Meter Reading systems in South Africa, Power Measurement Group have entrenched their approach as the industry standard. In order to bring real value in providing more than just accurate billing information, our approach guarantees that we can provide:

• Information to help in and predicting for system planning
• NRS 048 compliant equipment to manage plant and equipment effectively thereby, reducing service costs
• Guaranteed data integrity, an aspect that can never de ensured with a pulsed based system
• True remote management of contractual and metering parameters

Integrated into our solution we can also provide, on a common backbone; SCADA, Access Control and Move Management,Network Event Logging and Harmonic Analysis technologies that will provide, through central data acquisition systems, a reliable source of online information for billing and other management information. With our technology we can provide information for:

Management- aspects such as:

• Data Logging
• Event Logging
• Boolean Equations (Conditional Control)
• Min/Max Logging
• Power Factor Control
• Set-point Control
• Demand Control

Quality of Supply- parameters such as:

• Harmonics (up to 40th)
• Unbalances
• Dips
• Regulation
• Frequency
• Interruptions

Conclusion

In order to achieve the objective of a truly integrated and a reliable revenue and energy management system, the choice of the employed technology and systems is paramount. With our methods and expertise in pricing and tariff analysis, we are uniquely positioned to achieve this.