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SME Industrial Energy Monitoring
Clamp-on submeters plus a live analytics dashboard for small plants and warehouses, sold as an install fee plus a monthly retainer, aimed at the sites enterprise EMS vendors ignore.
- Category
- SaaS
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Revenue potential
- Solid
- Startup cost
- €8k
Small and mid-size plants now have to comply too. But the big vendors still price and sell as if every customer runs a dozen sites.
Executive summary
You can sell energy monitoring to a single 40-person plant and it makes sense now, because the rules and the cost of metering finally line up.
This market already exists. The problem is that the named incumbents are built for big companies with lots of sites and heavy integration. Meanwhile a small plant just has an audit deadline, an electricity bill it can see, and cheap easy meters that didn't really exist a few years ago.
Compliance is the real driver. If a company uses more than 10 TJ/year, it has to get an independent energy audit by 11 October 2026. Above 85 TJ/year, it needs a certified energy-management system by 11 October 2027.
The hard part is selling, not the product. Plant procurement is slow and careful, and you have to prove savings at their specific site before renewals mean anything.
- The rules give you a buyer with a deadline.
- Wireless clamp meters make installation easy.
- The incumbents are priced and built for bigger companies with many sites.
- AI helps spot anomalies and write reports, but it won't protect you from competitors.
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Questions, answered
What do I get in the first install?
You get clamp-on submeters on the top circuits, live data into a dashboard, and a monthly savings report that also serves as EED audit evidence.
Why not just buy an enterprise EMS?
Those platforms are built for large multi-site portfolios and often come with heavy integration and high CAPEX, which leaves single-site plants overpriced or unmetered.
How do you prove savings?
We only renew against site-specific measured results, because the report says vendor savings claims have to be proven on the client’s own site.