CutWatt meters your supply in real time, surveys the facility with a thermal camera, and corrects the refrigeration plant behind the waste. Cold stores and factories typically cut consumption by a fifth to a third — and their compressors last longer for it.
Facilities are built once, commissioned once, and then run for a decade on assumptions. Everything below comes from the same gap.
A monthly invoice is one number for hundreds of loads. Without measurement there is no way to tell a genuine production increase from a compressor that has quietly started running twice as long as it needs to.
Short-cycling, high head pressure and high discharge temperatures are the three things that shorten a compressor's life. All three are usually caused by settings and controls, not by the machine itself.
A loose termination in a panel runs at 80 °C for weeks before it lets go. When it does, it takes the line with it — and in a cold store, the stock in the chamber is on a clock from that moment.
Four questions. The answer appears immediately — you decide afterwards whether you want us to verify it on site.
Enter your monthly electricity bill to see an estimate.
Indicative only. It is built from the ranges we see across audited cold stores and food plants, not from your actual data. The site assessment replaces it with measured numbers.
The order matters. Data tells us where to point the camera; the camera tells us which equipment to open up; the equipment is where the saving is actually made.
A meter-level view of every kilowatt-hour, so waste has nowhere to hide.
A high-resolution infrared survey of insulation, panels and cold lines.
Setpoints, sequencing and control logic corrected for how the plant actually runs.
Drag the handle. On the left is what a walk-round inspection shows. On the right is what the plant was actually doing at that moment — a termination at 81 °C in a panel whose ambient was 31 °C.
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Visible light
Tap a marker for the finding. Images are from CutWatt site surveys.
Every finding is logged with its radiometric image, its delta over ambient, and what it costs to leave alone.
Loose connections and overloaded breakers. Energy loss is minor; the shutdown risk is not.
A cold surface in a warm room is a continuous heat load your compressors pay for, around the clock.
Infiltration at doorways is the single most common finding in cold storage, and the cheapest to fix.
Degraded insulation shows as a thermal bridge long before it shows as condensation.
A bearing that runs hot is telling you its remaining life. We log the trend, not just the reading.
Metering stays on site after the audit. You get load per feeder, peak demand against your tariff windows, and an alert the moment a machine starts drawing more than its own established baseline — which is usually the first sign that something mechanical is going wrong.
Each figure is the difference between an agreed pre-work baseline and metered consumption afterwards, weather and production normalised.
Compressors ran almost continuously through the night with no measurable load change. Suction line insulation had degraded across a 22 m run.
Re-insulated the suction header, corrected head pressure control, rebuilt the defrost schedule and staged the compressors.
Peak demand charges made up a third of the bill. Two panels showed terminations above 80 °C.
Shifted CIP and chiller pull-down out of the peak window, corrected the hot terminations, balanced phases.
Door seals and a dock curtain were leaking; the blast freezer never reached setpoint on schedule.
Sealed the envelope, corrected evaporator fan control and superheat, added door interlocks.
Every engagement begins the same way — an assessment. What differs is how long we stay and how we get paid.
A one-off, full-site assessment. The right starting point for any facility.
Permanent metering, a live dashboard and a quarterly on-site check.
We invest the work; we are paid from a share of what you actually save.
Pricing depends on facility size and travel. Tell us the site and you will have a fixed quote — no open-ended day rates.
Frozen and chilled chambers, blast freezers, dock areas.
Process cooling, CIP cycles, chilled water systems.
Blast freezing, cutting halls, cold chain logistics.
Controlled atmosphere stores, pre-cooling, packhouses.
Validated cold rooms, cleanroom HVAC, backup plant.
Compressed air, motors, ovens, process heat and cooling.
If yours is not here, ask it directly — you will get a straight answer, not a brochure.
No. Metering uses non-invasive clamps and the thermal survey is contactless — in fact the plant must be running under normal load for the readings to mean anything. We work around your schedule, including night shifts.
One to three days on site depending on facility size, then five to seven working days to deliver the report. Monitoring installations that stay permanently take about half a day.
A load map of your site, every thermal finding with its radiometric image and temperature delta, a ranked action list with estimated saving and cost for each item, and a payback calculation. Nothing is left as a generic recommendation.
We are not tied to any manufacturer. A large share of the savings we find need no purchase at all — they are setpoints, schedules, control logic and insulation. Where hardware is genuinely justified, we say so and you buy it wherever you like.
Yes. Data stays on your dashboard, is never shared, and we will sign an NDA before the first site visit if you prefer.
Most compressor wear comes from short-cycling, high discharge temperatures and running against an unnecessarily high head pressure. Fixing those reduces starts per hour and thermal stress, which is exactly what determines overhaul intervals.
It has not happened yet on an unaudited site, but the Shared Savings model exists for precisely that reason — under it, no savings means no fee.
We travel to site. Tell us where the facility is and we will confirm scheduling and any travel arrangement in the first call.
Give us a phone number and a facility. We will spend twenty minutes on a call working out whether there is enough on the table to be worth a site visit — and tell you honestly if there is not.