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Commercial buildings and campuses: one bill, split fairly.
A mall, an office tower or a college campus receives one electricity bill for many users. The owner pays the DISCOM, then has to recover the cost from tenants or departments, and argue about the common areas. Metering each tenant panel and each building turns that argument into a statement.
Your bill, line by line
| Bill line | Why it hits | What to watch |
|---|---|---|
| Energy and recovery | Tenants and departments share one supply | Units and rupees per tenant or department, every month |
| Maximum Demand | Central air conditioning on hot afternoons | The running interval against Contract Demand, and the chiller share |
| Common area | Lifts, escalators, lighting, pumps and HVAC plant serve everyone | Common-area units separated from tenant units |
| After-hours load | Lights and air conditioning left on at night and on holidays | Night and weekend base load per building |
Malls and commercial complexes
Each shop or tenant panel gets its own meter; the HVAC plant, lifts, escalators, parking and common lighting get theirs. The hierarchy then shows each tenant’s units, the common area and the unmetered remainder, so the total matches the DISCOM bill.
- Units and demand per tenant, month by month.
- Common-area energy and its share of the bill.
- Load after closing time, floor by floor.
Office buildings and IT parks
Air conditioning, servers and lighting dominate. A building that draws nearly its daytime load at midnight is usually running air handlers, lighting or idle equipment for nobody.
- Night and weekend base load against working hours.
- Floor-wise or tenant-wise units.
- Chiller and air-handling energy on hot days.
Colleges, schools and campuses
Academic blocks, hostels, laboratories, the library, water pumping and street lighting each have their own pattern. Vacations show the true base load of a campus better than any audit.
- Units per building and per hostel.
- Base load during vacations and holidays.
- Pumping and street-lighting hours.
A worked example: the building at night
An office building draws 120 kW at night when about 60 kW would cover security, servers and emergency lighting. The extra 60 kW for 12 hours a night is 21,600 kWh a month. At ₹8 a unit that is about ₹1,72,800 a month spent on an empty building.
The figures are illustrative. The day-by-hour heatmap shows your own building’s night load.
Commercial buildings and campuses in KONDUKTOR® EMS
- Up to 10 meters per gateway, with more gateways for larger buildings and every building in one dashboard.
- A panel hierarchy with each tenant or department linked to its incomer, unmetered load shown, every unit counted once.
- The running Maximum Demand against Contract Demand, and power factor per panel.
- A day-by-hour heatmap and night load per building.
- Every meter’s history exported to Excel.
Monthly tenant and department statements with TOD-wise rupees, ready to print or share, and automatic monthly reports to the owner or facility head are set up for your building as part of your project.
Common questions
Can we bill tenants from these readings?+
The readings give each tenant’s units, demand and rupee share for cost recovery. Whether you may resell electricity, and at what rate, depends on your state’s rules and your supply agreement, so check them before issuing bills.
How is the common area split?+
Common-area panels are metered on their own. Their energy can then be shared by area, by agreed percentage or in proportion to each tenant’s own use, as your lease says.
Do we need new meters for each tenant?+
Only where a tenant panel has no meter with an RS-485 Modbus port. Most commercial panels already have multifunction meters that can be read as they are.
See who used what, every month.
Book a live demo and see tenant, department and common-area energy on meters like yours.