Partner Solution

Best Energy.

Circuit-level energy monitoring and a managed savings service. Find the waste a utility bill can never show you.

The challenge

Your bill tells you what you spent.
Not where it went.

South African energy costs keep climbing, driven by tariff increases and grid instability, and the pressure lands squarely on operating margins. Yet most sites still run on a single number a month: the meter reading on the invoice. That number confirms the problem. It does nothing to locate it.

Below the main meter, almost nothing is visible. Which circuit drifted. Which chiller started running through the night. Which asset has been failing slowly for six weeks. By the time it shows up on a bill, the money is already gone, and the bill cannot tell you which of a hundred possible causes to go and fix.

Best Energy South Africa is an official GCX partner, bringing the Eniscope IoT metering system and a managed Virtual Energy Management Service to South African facilities. Eniscope instruments the distribution board directly, so consumption is measured minute by minute at building, circuit and asset level, and waste becomes something you can point at rather than something you infer.

Why Best Energy

  • Real-time visibilitybuilding, circuit and asset level, minute by minute
  • Limited capexhardware runs on rental rather than purchase
  • Managed, not self-serviceweekly reporting and 24/7 support coverage
  • Anomalies investigatedroot causes identified, not just flagged
  • Modular and future-proofextends to wider smart building technology
Aligned to the standards, tariffs and reporting frameworks that govern energy in South Africa

What it monitors

Four levels of resolution,
and what you do with them.

Eniscope measures at four levels — building, circuit, asset and environment — then alerts, controls and reports on what it finds. An open API means the data lands where your team already works.

01

Building-level monitoring

Whole-site electricity, gas and water on a single view, so total consumption is measured continuously rather than reconciled from invoices once a month.

02

Circuit-level monitoring

Current transformers on the distribution board break the site into its constituent circuits, isolating exactly where consumption sits and where it drifts.

03

Asset-level monitoring

Key plant is metered individually. HVAC, lighting, refrigeration and compressed air each get their own profile, so a failing asset announces itself in the data.

04

Environmental sensing

Light, humidity, CO₂, occupancy and temperature sensors add the context that makes consumption interpretable rather than merely visible.

05

Alerts, alarms and control

Thresholds and anomaly alarms fire in real time. Because the system integrates with IoT devices, monitoring can extend into control where it is warranted.

06

Reporting and analytics

Dashboards, public-facing displays and structured exports through the platform API, so the same data serves the plant room, the board pack and the carbon inventory.

How the engagement runs

Savings are validated
before anything is installed.

Gap assessment

Twelve months of utility bills analysed before a single device is fitted.

What that means

  • Full bill analysis across the period, including demand and reactive charges
  • Estimated consumption waste quantified against achievable consumption
  • Savings opportunity modelled against current and announced tariff increases
  • A written view of what is realistically recoverable, before you commit

Scope of works and installation

A documented installation specification, then a qualified electrical install.

What that means

  • Risk Assessment Method Statement prepared ahead of any work on site
  • Scope of Works and Monitoring Design confirming placement circuit by circuit
  • Assumptions from the gap assessment verified against the actual facility
  • Installation by a qualified, experienced electrical engineer and assistant

Virtual energy management

The service that turns monitoring into sustained savings.

What that means

  • Consumption baseline established across the opening weeks of operation
  • Weekly reporting identifying waste, with automated alarms in between
  • An Energy Savings Opportunities Report setting out the actionable measures
  • Monthly review with your team, and 24/7 support for the duration

Best Energy is delivered as a managed service on rented hardware, scoped to your site count and the assets you need instrumented.

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How it fits

Two layers,
not two products.

This is the question everyone asks, so here is the plain answer. DASH tells you what your energy costs and what it emits, at site and organisation level, in a form you can put in a report, a carbon inventory or a board pack. Eniscope tells you which circuit, which asset and which hour is wasting it.

They operate at different resolutions and answer different questions. One is the reporting layer, the other is the measurement layer underneath it. Run Eniscope on its own if reducing consumption is the immediate pressure, or run it feeding DASH so that verified, circuit-level data flows straight into your energy and carbon reporting instead of being re-keyed from invoices.

Who it is built for

  • Energy-intensive manufacturing and industrial sites
  • Retail chains and multi-site portfolios
  • Hotels, resorts and hospitality groups
  • Cold chain, food processing and refrigeration-heavy operations
  • Commercial property and facilities management teams
  • Finance teams carrying the tariff increases

Start with the bills,
not the hardware.

The gap assessment analyses twelve months of your utility data and quantifies what is recoverable, before any equipment is specified or installed. Bring your bills and we will tell you whether there is a case.