Solutions
Three different problems that all turn out to be the same problem.
A municipality protecting revenue, a property fund recovering costs from tenants, and a retailer trying to find out where the money goes are asking the same underlying question: what did this actually consume, and can I prove it? The answer is MOL in each case. What changes is which part of it does the work.
Municipalities & utilities
Revenue you can defend at audit.
A metro's electricity revenue is concentrated in a comparatively small number of large customers — and those are exactly the customers with the technical capacity to query a bill and the commercial motivation to do it.
Defending that revenue is not a billing problem. It is a metering problem that only becomes visible at billing, by which time the argument is already about credibility.
Large power user metering
The customers who account for most of the revenue, metered properly and read every thirty minutes — with billing determinants that hold up when the customer's own consultant queries them.
Outage detection on the estate you already own
Last-gasp notification from meters already installed. The topology model directs the crew to the highest connection point where the trip occurred, and matches the dispatch to the switching authority required.
Revenue protection
Phasor diagnostics catch reversed CTs and swapped phases that leave a meter reading plausibly but billing wrongly. Tamper events are logged and surfaced, not buried.
Prepayment beyond STS
Prepayment for commercial and industrial customers whose tariffs an STS meter cannot express — time of use, maximum demand, network charges, multiple utilities on one balance.
Property funds & centre management
Recoveries that reconcile — and a bill your tenant can check.
A landlord reselling electricity is required to charge tenants as though they were buying directly from the municipality. That is a straightforward obligation and a surprisingly hard one to evidence — most tenants have no practical way to confirm the charge passed to them is the charge the tariff permits.
Metering that can be shown to a tenant, line by line, ends that conversation before it becomes a dispute. It also tends to surface the losses a centre has quietly been absorbing.
Tenant recovery that reconciles
Sub-metering to every tenant, plant room and common area, apportioned by rules you set, on the municipal tariff you are legally required to pass through.
Standby generation cost recovery
Diesel costs several times what the grid does. Conditional virtual meters bill generator-supplied consumption at a different rate to utility-supplied — in software, without duplicating your reticulation or adding a control system.
Solar apportioned to the people using it
Tenants account for most of a centre's consumption, so most of a rooftop array's output is consumed by tenants. Virtual metering distributes the benefit pro rata instead of leaving it with the landlord.
Bill verification
Independent check meters and a recalculation of every charge on the bill you receive — the tariff as well as the reading.
Everything on the bill is considered wrong until Meteringonline proves it right.
Multi-site corporates
Most energy budgets look backwards.
They start by assuming next year will look much like last year, then add a factor for tariff increases and any major change in occupancy. The results are predictably inaccurate, and by the time the variance shows up in the accounts the year is spent.
Interval data changes what is possible: not a monthly total, but which site, which day, which half hour — and against a baseline that already accounts for the weather.
Every site, on one basis
Interval data from every branch, store or plant, whatever meters are installed and whoever the landlord is, reported through one hierarchy.
Budgets that look forward
Weather-normalised baselines built by regression against heating and cooling degree days, so a variance means something changed — not that it was a warm month.
Benchmarking that means something
Energy per square metre tells a retailer very little. Per unit of sales, per cover, per available room, per ton of production — that is a number an operations manager can act on.
Baseload
What the site draws when nobody is there. It is usually the cheapest saving available, and almost nobody measures it.
The same applies to water, gas, compressed air and heat. A traditional water meter gives a running total — the manager has no idea how much was used on any given day, let alone whether it is being consumed after hours. Treated as interval data, a leak announces itself.
Run it yourself, or let us run it.
Some customers take MOL and operate it with their own team. Others hand us the whole function — installation and commissioning, meter reading, data management, bill verification, tariff analysis and the monthly billing pack.
Most sit somewhere between, and move along it over time. MOL is the same either way, which means changing your mind later is a staffing decision rather than a migration project.