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We show what’s spending your money.

A production line, a cold room, a guest wing, a whole branch. Anything big enough to meter gets a live cost of its own. And once it’s measured, everything else stands on it: solar sized from what you really use, audits backed by evidence.

Pick a sector:

Processing plant · Namanve

250.4 kW / UGX 120,200 an hour, right now

One month’s bill

UGX 57.6M

120,015 kWh

Three loads are 83% of it.

  • Production line 237,29417,901,000
  • Compressor house32,03115,375,000
  • Cold store30,39814,591,000
  • Everything else20,2929,740,000
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Trusted by Uganda's leading commercial and industrial organisations

  • Quality Chemical Industries Ltd
  • Sheraton Kampala Hotel
  • Kampala Serena Hotel
  • Kampala Capital City Authority
  • JESA
  • Steel & Tube
  • Nice House of Plastics
  • Uganda Batteries Ltd
  • Riley Packaging
  • Crane Paper Bags Ltd
  • OxyLife
  • KMC

UGX516M+

Saved or avoided for clients

40+

Sites monitored across Uganda

12–25%

Energy cost reduction across monitored sites

5+years

Operating in Uganda

8

Sectors served

Capital avoided plus first-year operating savings, summed across three documented deployments. Every figure is drawn from a named deployment — read the case studies.

Services

Three services, one measured foundation

Monitoring is the spine. Solar design and energy audits both run on the data it produces, which is what makes either of them defensible in a board paper or a procurement file.

Energy monitoring

The spine

Sub-meters at the points that generate cost, feeding a live platform where management can see where the electricity goes and what each part of it is worth. Everything else Orijtech does is built on this record.

  • Meters at the incomer, at each transformer, at distribution board level and on the loads that matter — chillers, pumps, compressors, kitchens, tenant supplies.
  • Each three-phase meter is installed with three current sensors, one per phase. Single-phase points take one.
  • Consumption, demand, power factor and voltage recorded continuously and held on the platform, so a claim about last quarter can be checked against a record rather than a memory.
  • Cost attributed by time-of-use band, so a department, a floor or a tenant can be given a number it can be held to.

What the same data is then read for

How the monitoring works
The Orijtech monitoring platform showing 1 to 18 October 2023 for one site: off-peak 13.81 MWh, shoulder 24.25 MWh, peak 12.39 MWh, total 50.45 MWh, and daily energy stacked by tariff band.
The platform at one site: 50.45 MWh and UGX 22,588,428 over 18 days of October 2023, broken down by day and by tariff band.

Solar project development

Orijtech specifies and develops the system from your measured consumption, and stays the single point of contact through delivery. A specialist installation contractor performs the physical build.

How a system gets sized
  1. 01

    Measure the load first

    A metered baseline of the site: how much, when, and in which tariff band. Not the twelve monthly totals on the bill.

  2. 02

    Size against the measured profile

    Array and inverter sized to the load curve the meters recorded. This is what stops a system being bought two hundred kilowatts larger than the site can absorb.

  3. 03

    Value the output honestly

    Generation matched to consumption hour by hour and valued at the tariff band it actually displaces, so the payback figure survives a finance review.

  4. 04

    Build, commission, verify

    A specialist installation contractor performs the physical build. Orijtech holds the specification, the client relationship and the commissioning check, then verifies real output against the model on the same meters.

Energy audits

Scoped per site. There is no fixed package, because a single-transformer office and a multi-transformer factory do not need the same work. What does not change is that every finding is tied to a measurement, and every recommendation arrives with the evidence attached.

How an audit is scoped
When an audit, not monitoring
You need the position in writing at one point in time — for a lender, a buyer, a certification body or a capital submission.
When monitoring instead
You need the record to keep running, so each month can be set against the last and a change can be shown to have worked.
What the two share
The same instruments and the same measured parameters. An audit meters temporarily where monitoring meters permanently.

Method

  • Metered baseline over an agreed period, rather than a single spot reading.
  • Load inventory: what is installed, what is running, what is running when nobody needs it.
  • Transformer loading and power factor measured under real operating conditions.
  • Tariff and bill reconciliation against metered consumption, band by band.
  • Walkdown and interviews with the people who actually operate the plant.

What you receive

  • Measured baseline report with the raw data behind it.
  • Itemised register of energy conservation measures, each with an estimated saving and a payback range.
  • Transformer, power-factor and demand findings, with the corrective work stated as a scope.
  • Tariff-band and load-shifting recommendations that need no capital.
  • An implementation schedule your team can put to tender or into a budget line.
One day, measured three ways

Friday 13 October 2023 · one monitored site

The day

24 hours

00:00

06:00

18:00

The energy

4.08 MWh

The cost

1,857,017 UGX

Off-peak00:00 – 06:00
Clock6 h25.00%
Energy1.01 MWh24.68%
Cost289,407 UGX15.58%
Shoulder06:00 – 18:00
Clock12 h50.00%
Energy1.99 MWh48.85%
Cost905,893 UGX48.78%
Peak18:00 – 24:00
Clock6 h25.00%
Energy1.08 MWh26.47%
Cost661,716 UGX35.63%

The energy split follows the clock almost exactly. The cost does not. Peak and off-peak are a quarter of the day each and took 26.47% and 24.68% of the kilowatt-hours — but 35.63% and 15.58% of the money. Which band a load runs in is a scheduling decision, and it is not one you can make from a monthly bill.

From the site walk to the monthly report

Orijtech installs, monitors and reports. Your team’s obligations are site access and a decision at the end of each report.

  1. 01

    Site assessment

    An engineer walks the site, records the incomer, transformer ratings and the loads that matter, then states exactly what will be metered and why.

    Your side

    Site access, and someone who knows the plant.

  2. 02

    Installation

    Meters go in at the incomer, the transformers, the boards and the major loads. Three current sensors on every three-phase point, one on every single-phase point.

    Your side

    An agreed downtime window.

  3. 03

    Data on the platform

    Consumption, demand, power factor and cost by tariff band arrive continuously and stay on the record, so last quarter can be checked rather than recalled.

    Your side

    Nothing. The record builds itself.

  4. 04

    Reporting and advisory

    A monthly report naming what changed, what it cost and what to do next, plus alerts when a load stops behaving like its own history.

    Your side

    A decision at the end of each report.

Eight sectors, eight different cost problems

A hotel’s cost concentrates in laundry and kitchen at peak tariff. A bank’s is spread across branches with UPS and standby generation behind each one. A hospital cannot lose the theatre supply to fix a power factor problem.

So the metering plan, the reporting cycle and the audit scope are written to the building type, not to a template.

Compare all eight sectors

Proof

Verified outcomes across Uganda’s C&I sector

Every result below is based on sub-meter data, not estimates or projections.

View all client results
Food & Agricultural Processing

UGX 300M

Solar investment saving

JESA

JESA was about to buy a solar system sized on estimates. Measured consumption proved it was oversized — cutting UGX 300 million from the investment — and revealed a further UGX 40 million a year lost to processing at the wrong hours. Both answers came from the same meters.

Read case study
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

UGX 100M

Capital expenditure avoided

Quality Chemical Industries Ltd (QCIL)

One monitoring deployment settled two questions QCIL had been weighing on assumption alone — proving the existing transformer was not overloaded, and quantifying twelve months of variance between metered and invoiced consumption. Two decisions, one evidence base.

Read case study
Hospitality

UGX 36M/yr

Annual saving

Sheraton Kampala Hotel

Sheraton Kampala knew its power bill was high, but not what drove it. Energy monitoring traced a major share of the cost to one habit — running the industrial laundry during peak-tariff hours. Rescheduling it, at no capital cost, saves UGX 36 million a year.

Read case study
Government & Public Infrastructure

Fire risk

Safety risks identified

Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA)

At USAFI Market, the risks stayed invisible until they were measured. Energy monitoring surfaced voltage instability and phase imbalance serious enough to pose a fire hazard — and, separately, load drawing on the public supply that no registered connection accounted for.

Read case study

Read the monthly report these results come out of

A full monthly report with the client removed and the figures illustrative: the band split, cost by metered area, the load profile, the demand event that set the charge, the actions, and last month’s actions with their measured outcome.

PDF · 6 pages · 300 KB

Download the specimen report (PDF, 6 pages)

Decisions made on measured data

Two decisions, in the words of the people who made them. Both were taken against a metered record, and both figures are published in full as case studies.

We had a transformer upgrade on the capital budget. The sub-meter data showed it was unnecessary. We avoided a UGX 100M expenditure based entirely on what the meters revealed.
QCILOperations Director
The load-shifting analysis identified UGX 36M in annual savings from a scheduling change alone — no capital investment, no disruption. The data made the decision obvious.
Sheraton KampalaEngineering Manager

Start with the measurement

A site assessment maps your facility's energy profile and sets out what is worth metering first. It is also the input to a solar design or an energy audit, so nothing about it is wasted whichever direction you go.

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