Smart metering.
Meter data collected and held in one system.
For municipalities
Private power is already moving across your network. Your billing has to keep up.
Amptera handles metering and billing for South African municipalities, and our team works alongside yours as wheeling grows on your network.
What changes for you.
When a business in your area buys from a generator somewhere else, the electricity still crosses your network. You still meter it. You still bill for it. You still levy the use of system charge. And the credit still lands on the bill.
The difficulty is proving it. Applying the right tariff to the right account. Calculating the wheeling credit correctly. Showing your working when a large power user disputes it.
That is a billing problem before it is an energy problem.
Buy your own electricity.
Municipalities can now buy power from private generators, not only from Eskom. We act as your transaction adviser, from finding supply to running the deal.
Businesses on your network will ask to wheel. Be ready when they do.
We help municipalities get ready for wheeling: the metering, tariffs, billing and wheeling credits it takes, and a pilot on a defined group of large power users. You find out what works on your network before the requests arrive.
The credit is on the bill. The working behind it is not.
Tariff application.
The correct tariff applied to the correct account, automatically.
Billing.
Accurate monthly billing across your large power user base.
Wheeling credits.
Calculated and applied against the right accounts, with a record behind every one.
Over R2 billion billed for large power users since 2022.
Amptera has been operational at George Municipality since 2022, and is in pilot at multiple other municipalities.
At George, that is continuous production billing, run with the George team every month. Not a pilot, and not a proof of concept.
Where we sit.
We're independent and neutral. We own no generation and we take no trading position. We are never a party to the transactions that cross your network. Which means the record we produce is not a record either party wrote.
No party on your network is obliged to use us.
How to start.
- 01
Wheeling readiness assessment.
An assessment of smart metering, tariff application, billing and wheeling credits on your network. What is there, what is missing, and what it would take.
- 02
Scope and plan.
What implementation would involve, and over what period.
- 03
Pilot.
A defined section of your large power user base, run on Amptera, measured against what you have now.
- 04
Ongoing support.
Once live, we stay: monthly billing support, wheeling readiness as more businesses on your network ask to wheel, and help with the market changes ahead.
Ask for a wheeling readiness assessment.
We will tell you what is there, what is missing, and what it would take to put it right. You'll deal with the people who have run George's billing since 2022.