Your power bill is hiding three costs.We'll prove all three.
For plant managers, CFOs and facility owners who suspect the electric utility bill isn't telling the whole story. We clamp on a non-invasive logger, stream your plant data to a dashboard you watch from day one, and hand you a board-ready report priced in pesos — with a heat-pump proposal sized against your real load. From a ₱40K walkthrough to a ₱250K RA 11285 compliance audit.
Three line items that never appear on your bill — but you pay for them every month.
Most Philippine factories, hotels, hospitals and commercial buildings think the electric utility bill is a complete picture of what their electricity costs. It isn't. Three large costs hide inside the meter, the equipment and the wiring. None of them show up as a line item. All three are measurable — in a 1-day walkthrough, a 1-week instrumented survey, or a multi-week RA 11285 audit. Once measured, fixable.
A surcharge, because your motors are out of sync with the grid
When your chillers, compressors and large motors don't move power in step with the grid, your electric utility adds a surcharge to your bill. Most plant managers don't know it's there. Most fix-it capacitor banks installed 5+ years ago have silently failed. We measure it. We price it in pesos. We tell you exactly what to do.
Power factor · Utility PF < 0.85 clauseA single spike that re-prices your whole month
Your electric utility bills commercial accounts on the highest 15-minute kVA peak in the month. One uncontrolled chiller startup at the wrong moment re-rates the entire month upward — and nothing on the bill explains why. Our loggers catch the spike, time-stamp it, and trace it back to the equipment that caused it.
Demand charge · 15-minute kVA peakDirty power cooking your transformer in slow motion
Your VFDs, LED retrofits, UPS units and battery chargers pollute your power supply. Transformers run hot. Motors fail “randomly.” Capacitors blow. We measure the pollution against the international IEEE 519 limit and name the specific load doing the damage — before it takes your plant down.
Total Harmonic Distortion · IEEE 519Four channels of measurement. One report priced in pesos.
A licensed electrician installs non-invasive clamp-on sensors on the incoming feeder and 4–8 priority sub-circuits. Cellular gateway streams data to a cloud dashboard you watch from day one. We track four channels simultaneously, every second, for the duration of the survey — 1 week for Level 1, multi-week for Level 2.
True consumption
Validates the electric utility bill against measured reality. Reveals ghost loads running 24/7 that nobody knew about.
Penalty exposure
Catches the surcharge buried in your bill. Most cap banks installed 5+ years ago have failed silently — we'll know in 24 hours.
Dirty-power damage
Names the specific load overheating your transformer and shortening your motors. VFDs · LEDs · UPS · rectifiers.
Thermal demand
Maps your real 24/7 thermal load. Sizes the heat pump against measured data, not a nameplate. Kills the #1 reason heat-pump retrofits fail.
Scope. Install. Report.
The recommended Level 1 product. A licensed electrician clamps non-invasive sensors onto your switchboard in half a day. No production downtime. After 7 days of second-resolution logging, a 15-page board-ready PDF lands on Day 10. (Walkthrough is 1 day on site; Level 2 audit runs multi-week.)
Walk the plant. Pull 12 months of bills.
One day on site. Our engineer photographs the single-line diagram, maps your major loads (chillers, compressors, AHUs, motors > 5 kW), pulls your last 12 months of electric utility bills, and agrees the install window with your electrical safety officer.
Clamp on. Gateway. Dashboard live.
Half a day. Licensed electrician. Non-invasive clamp-on sensors on the incoming feeder and 4–8 priority sub-circuits. Cellular gateway to the cloud. Dashboard live inside an hour — you watch your own plant from day one.
15-page PDF. Priced in pesos.
Seven days of second-resolution data, then a 15-page executive report, a technical appendix, a board-ready savings summary, and a heat-pump proposal sized against your real thermal load with an IPMVP M&V plan that DBP, BPI and LandBank will lend against. (Level 2 audits run multi-week and add a DOE submission package.)
What your bill is hiding — in pesos.
Indicative hidden-cost exposure from Karnot survey scoping calls on Philippine industrial and commercial sites. Real numbers come from a free scoping conversation on your own site.
| Hidden cost | Where it hides in your bill | Typical annual exposure |
|---|---|---|
| Power-factor penalty | Utility surcharge when PF < 0.85 | ₱180K – ₱1.2M |
| Demand-charge spike | Highest 15-min kVA peak — one event re-rates the month | ₱240K – ₱2.1M |
| Harmonic damage (IEEE 519) | Transformer life cut · motor failures | ₱350K+ per event |
| Phase imbalance + voltage instability | Burned motors · failed neutrals · tripped production | ₱120K – ₱600K |
| Oversized heat-pump retrofit | The project that fails commercially — never costed | Project IRR −30 to −60% |
| Typical hidden total / site / year | — | ₱500K – ₱3M+ |
What you get on Day 10 (Level 1). Every number from your own plant.
A 15-page board-ready PDF, a technical appendix, a live cloud dashboard that stays on after the install — and a heat-pump proposal sized against your real thermal load with an IPMVP M&V plan.
True baseline
Site-level kWh, kW, kVA — and per feeder. The picture your bill never shows.
PF penalty in pesos
Your current annual surcharge exposure, modelled against your utility's PF clause.
Demand-spike breakdown
Which event re-priced your month, traced to the equipment that caused it.
Dirty-power audit
Harmonic load named, equipment-life impact quantified, fix priced. IEEE 519 compliant.
24/7 load profile
When you run hard. When thermal storage can shift load to cheap hours.
Thermal demand
What your boiler / chiller / AHUs actually do, not what their nameplates claim.
Karnot install sizing
Heat pump + storage + solar sized to measured data, with peso ROI and a fixed-price quote.
IPMVP M&V plan
Audit-grade baseline DBP, BPI & LandBank lend against. Satisfies SEC PFRS S2.
Three tiers. Fixed in writing, before we clamp on.
A 1-day walkthrough for owners who want a same-week answer, a 1-week instrumented Level 1 survey for serious buyers, and a multi-week Level 2 audit for Type 1 / Type 2 Designated Establishments under RA 11285.
₱40,000Refunded on install.
One day on site. Engineer walks the plant, reviews 12 months of utility bills, photographs the single-line and major equipment. You get a 4-page executive memo with our top 3 recommendations and a sized install proposal. Refunded in full when you install.
₱90,000Refunded on install.
The full instrumented power-quality + thermal survey. A-Eberle PQ-Box logger clamped on for the week, cellular dashboard live from day one, 15-page board-ready PDF with IPMVP M&V plan on Day 10. Refunded in full against the install.
₱250,000DOE submission.
Multi-week deep audit for Type 1 / Type 2 Designated Establishments. IPMVP Option B/C baseline, certified energy auditor signature, full DOE submission package. Required every 3 years if you consume >500,000 kWh/year. Compliance product — not refundable.
When the fix goes in. The bank pays for it.
A survey is the start, not the end. Once we've shown you what your bill is hiding, the install that fixes it — heat pumps, thermal storage, behind-the-meter solar — is financed by a green-loan programme built for exactly this kind of project. The monthly saving covers the loan payment. Net cash flow goes up from day one.
These are loans, not grants. The bank needs an audit-grade, IPMVP-compliant baseline to size the loan against. That's the survey. Karnot files the survey, the design, the permits and the loan paperwork — one team, end to end.
Download the Energy Surveys Application Brief
A 3-page application brief and a 10-slide deck — both ready to share with your facilities team, your CFO or your board.
3-Page Application Brief
A4 portrait PDF · print-ready. Hero, hidden-cost strip, 4 channels of measurement, pricing, bank finance, founder quote and CTA.
10-Slide Sales Deck
16:9 landscape PDF. The complete sales presentation — problem, method, hidden costs, report contents, pricing, bank finance, and what the M&V baseline unlocks.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a Karnot energy survey actually measure?
Four channels: true consumption (kWh, kW, kVA per phase, per feeder, every second), power-factor and reactive-power exposure against your utility's PF < 0.85 surcharge clause, total and individual harmonic distortion against IEEE 519, and thermal demand on your boiler, chiller and AHUs through sub-metering. All non-invasive clamp-on. Dashboard live within an hour of install.
How long does the survey take?
Depends on the tier. Walkthrough: 1 day on site, 4-page executive memo within the week. Level 1 Survey: half-day install of clamp-on sensors by a licensed electrician (no production downtime), then 7 days of second-resolution logging, 15-page board-ready PDF on Day 10 with IPMVP M&V plan. Level 2 Audit: multi-week deep audit with DOE submission package — required every 3 years for Type 1 / Type 2 Designated Establishments under RA 11285.
What does it cost?
Three tiers, all fixed in writing: Walkthrough ₱40,000 (1 day, refunded on install). Level 1 Survey ₱90,000 (1 week instrumented, IPMVP M&V plan, refunded on install — the recommended product for retrofit buyers). Level 2 Audit ₱250,000 (multi-week ASHRAE Level 2 + DOE submission package for RA 11285 compliance — not refundable, it's a compliance product). Continuous post-install M&V monitoring optional from ₱8,000 per month per site.
Is the survey IPMVP-compliant?
Yes — for the instrumented Level 1 Survey and Level 2 Audit. Both deliver a baseline supporting IPMVP Option B (parameter-based measurement) and Option C (whole-facility measurement). This is the global Measurement & Verification protocol every Philippine green-finance team recognises. Without an IPMVP baseline, no shared-savings, ESCo or pay-from-savings deal is possible. With it, DBP, BPI and LandBank can size a loan against the project. The Walkthrough (₱40K) does not produce an IPMVP baseline — it's a same-week sizing memo, not an instrumented survey.
Does this support SEC PFRS S2 reporting?
Yes. The measured pre-installation baseline plus continuous post-install M&V is exactly the dataset SEC PFRS S2 climate-disclosure auditors require for Scope 2 emissions reporting. The same dataset supports I-REC eligibility and green-loan / green-bond verification.
Why measure before quoting a heat pump?
Oversizing is the single biggest reason heat-pump projects fail commercially. They short-cycle, run inefficiently, blow their payback period and kill the next project before it starts. A measured load curve removes that risk and improves project IRR. Anyone can quote a heat pump off a nameplate. Karnot quotes against your real measured load.
What's a power-factor penalty and how much could it cost me?
When chillers, compressors and large motors don't move power in step with the grid, your electric utility adds a surcharge to commercial bills with a power factor below 0.85. Most plant managers don't know it's there. Most capacitor banks installed 5+ years ago have failed silently. Typical annual exposure on Philippine industrial sites: ₱180,000 to ₱1.2 million. We measure it within 24 hours of clamp-on.
Is the survey fee really refundable?
Yes — for the Walkthrough (₱40K) and the Level 1 Survey (₱90K). Both fees are refunded in full when you proceed with the Karnot heat-pump, solar or thermal-storage install we recommend in the report. The refund mechanism is fixed in writing before we clamp on. If you decide not to proceed, you keep the report and the live dashboard for the original fee — no scope creep, no surprises. The Level 2 Audit (₱250K) is not refundable — it's a compliance product sold to be reusable for your bank, your board and your DOE filing.
Send us 12 months of electric utility bills.
We come back with a survey scope sized to your site — walkthrough, instrumented Level 1, or full RA 11285 audit. Fixed peso quote in writing. Walkthrough and Level 1 refunded in full when you proceed with the install we recommend.