OUR SERVICES
WHY WORK WITH US
INTEGRITY
- Honest & accurate billing ensures that you only pay for what you use.
- Real-time energy management allows users to be proactive in decreasing their environmental footprint.
- No hidden service charges.
- No flat tariffs; individual consumers are billed in accordance with regulations & their individual consumption profiles.
- You have real-time access to your consumption & billing at all times.
- We constantly strive to drive down energy costs.
Professionalism
- We are a team comprised of highly skilled professionals who have joined forces.
- Together, we continue to offer our skills & institutional knowledge to deliver proven results in unparalleled returns for our clients.
- We have extensive experience in energy-, utility-, facility-,
property-, & technology management.
ACCURACY
- Our digital platform provides real-time visibility for all building services to be managed with the help of algorithms.
- Our team, made up of highly analytical & strategic thinkers, is
able to guide clients effectively.
TRANSPARENCY
- Retention of ownership of information is a vital cost management tool, providing both visibility & control.
- We provide real-time billing information which will ensure
better business- & investment decision
Full Circle service
Trusted Utilities offers our customers a full end-to-end service solution that enables them full control and management of all estate/building management and utility services and service providers. Our team consist of industry veterans with expertise in energy, water and utility management and billing, energy management including alternative energy solution deployments, potable, grey and black water management, Telecommunications, IOT solutions and services. Our services include:




Consulting services for scoping & costing of IOT infrastructure & alternate energy resource solutions

Project management for the deployment of IOT infrastructure & alternate energy solutions

Service provider management, utilities charging & reconciliation with service providers




End-to-end estate/building management

Energy, utility, facilities- & asset management

Financial modelling of end-to-end solution
Business Model
In the traditional model, the Developer installs all the key service infrastructure for a development including electricity, water, gas, refuse, access control, roads, fiber, etc. This may be done in partnership with municipalities and other service providers. The developer also would assign the contractual agreements with initial service providers that a management company would take over. Part of the planning includes the management rules that defines how these services will be managed as part of the sales agreements to property owners. This results in complex, disparate contractual relationships that a management company needs to manage going forward. In addition, the developer has no opportunity for earning revenue from any of these services as it is handed over upon completion to the management company.
All modules are option based and are billed accordingly based on an integrated intelligent infrastructure.
Our projects
Projects span a period from 2002 – 2020 and include some of the largest installations in the Southern Hemisphere. Projects include both PV and Thermal. Wits Junction is an example and is the first and largest district co-generation installation.
The new district heating system at Wits University consists of a gas-driven combined heat and power (CHP) plant and the 600 m2 collector field built up from 10 m2 large-scale collector panels, the heating centre provides the hot water demand for 14 student residence buildings. The 1,103 medical students have an average consumption of 94,000 litres of hot water per day. Peak demand is in the morning, averaging 30% of daily consumption, with a maximum demand of 28,200 litres in an hour. The district heating system supplies the entire hot water demand, including kitchens, laundry, cleaning and other domestic uses.
“The combined system uses the advantages of both technology – solar thermal with its low operation costs, while the CHP meets the base loads,” explains Holm, Director of the South African engineering company Holms and Friends. Holms and Friends – also a long-term solar water heating system installer – was responsible for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction & Maintenance (EPCM) of the solar-CHP hybrid system.
“At the first eight month of operation the complaints of the students not having hot water has reduced by 98%”, reports Weber who also emphasizes that the project has an integrated monitoring device that registered yields from the very first commissioning day. Only small interruptions of the hot water supply were observed caused by shortages of the municipal water supply and by blocked circulation pumps because of debris in the water. There is currently a backup water system installation in progress, with 300,000 litre tanks, and a more advanced logging and measurement system is also planned.
The university should save an estimated ZAR 40-million over the next 20 years (at today’s electricity tariff). These savings arise from a reduction of electricity consumption, as hot water was provided by decentralised electric in the past – and by lower maintenance costs due to the centralised plant.
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Device & instruments
- Data collection equipment – e.g, sensors, meters, flow meters.
- Physical components that regulate the flow of water – e.g, smart pumps and valves.
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Installation
- Labour costs associated with installing physical layer equipment.
- Design, consulting, and project-specific site work.
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Communication & Connectivity
- Data transmission – radio transmitters, fibre optic cabling, wireless/ cellular infrastructere, cloud-based solutions.
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Data Management Platform
- IT and software that enables and facilitates data collection, storage, processing, analysis and dissemination.
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Applications
- Real-time service management applications such as billing tariff engines, device managemnet CRM etc.
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Data Analytics
- Steaming analytics for insights and control
- Predictive analytics using dynamic and non-linear models
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Business Services
- New usage-based products
- Customer vending portals
- AMI Deployment & Device operations
- Meter and network Asset Monitoring
Finance
The solar side saves 895kWh/m2 .a = 537 000kWh/annum measured. It has a 420kW peak capacity and omits (in tandem with the storage) 149kW peak demand on the electricity side. Another 52kW peak saving is due to the CHP generator. The CHP generator produces electricity at nearly parity with the grid-electricity and therefore the heat is for “free”, bringing the overall CHP cost down to 37% of the electrical grid cost. Solar cost is even more stable over the long-term, as we can predict its cost.
Calculation includes maintenance & operation cost over full period of 25-years. Calculation was based on an 8% electricity increase/year. In addition, Carbon TAX will translate to around ZAR0,12/kWh. The latest measurements and calculation by the University shows an IRR of 41.2%, including a system with no complaints.