AUTOMATED ELECTRICITY BILL ANALYSIS IN SOUTH AFRICA

The ever-increasing cost of energy puts industries under pressure. Industries are forced to monitor their energy consumption and to manage energy more efficiently and responsibly. Some industrial companies have multiple operations spread out over a wide area, making it logistically difficult to get...

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Published in:South African journal of industrial engineering 2017-11, Vol.28 (3), p.66-77
Main Authors: Goosen, Pieter, Mathews, Marc, Vosloo, Jan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
Consumers
Cost analysis
Cost control
electricity bill
electricity prices
Electricity pricing
Energy consumption
Energy management
Engineering, Industrial
Gold
Gold mines & mining
industrial companies
Information retrieval
Management information systems
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Summary:The ever-increasing cost of energy puts industries under pressure. Industries are forced to monitor their energy consumption and to manage energy more efficiently and responsibly. Some industrial companies have multiple operations spread out over a wide area, making it logistically difficult to get a holistic view of the company's energy performance. Valuable information is freely available in the form of electricity bills. However, to benefit from the information in the bills, the data should be extracted and analysed, which is a time-consuming process. In this paper, a need for an automated centralised system that extracts and analyses electricity data from bills was identified. The methodology for extracting, organising, and presenting the electricity bill information is explained in detail. The system is implemented for a gold mining company, and the results are interpreted and discussed. It was found that the system is beneficial for companies with many operations. As the number of operations increases, the value of automated bill analysis increases.
ISSN:2224-7890
1012-277X
2224-7890
DOI:10.7166/28-3-1840