Stop paying twice to keep the power on Folio UK designs, installs and manages electrical monitoring and maximum demand control across commercial and hospitality buildings — cutting capacity charges, ending disputed tenant bills, and keeping your standby generator for emergencies only.
THE PROBLEM
Unmanaged demand costs you three times over
Most buildings only discover a demand problem when the generator kicks in, a supplier bill arrives with a capacity charge attached, or a tenant disputes their share of a shared meter.
01
Generators running for demand, not emergencies
Coincident peaks — AC, kitchens, laundry, guest floors — push a site past its supply capacity, so standby plant starts covering routine load. That's hours of unnecessary fuel, servicing and wear on an asset meant for genuine mains failure.
02
Capacity charges you can't see coming
Half-hourly meters bill on your single highest demand period. Without prediction, one hot afternoon or one busy dinner service can set your capacity charge for the whole month.
03
Disputed bills in multi-let buildings
Where tenants or departments share an incomer, estimated or aggregated billing invites disagreement. Circuit-level sub-metering replaces the argument with a reading.
HOW FOLIO MANAGES IT
Survey, predict, control — then report
The same engineering process, scoped to the building - from a single commercial incomer to a multi-tenanted estate.
SURVEY
We meter before we specify
Wireless sub-metering is installed across key boards — kitchens, plant, tenant risers, guest floors — for a short monitoring period, so any control system is sized against your real demand profile, not an vestimate.
CONTROL
Demand is shed before it peaks
A maximum demand controller at the incomer predicts your period demand in real time and sheds pre-agreed, non-essential load — AC in unoccupied areas, spa plant, back-of-house kitchen circuits — before any threshold is reached.
REPORT
You get the data, not just the fix
Live dashboards and monthly reporting show avoided peaks, generator run hours, and per-tenant or per-department consumption evidence for ESOS, service charge reconciliation, or a future capacity upgrade conversation with your DNO.
WHERE IT FITS
Built around how your building actually runs
Most buildings only discover a demand problem when the generator kicks in, a supplier bill arrives with a capacity charge attached, or a tenant disputes their share of a shared meter.
MULTI-TENANTED & MIXED-USE
Commercial estates
Per-tenant sub-metering that ends service charge disputes
Demand control at the main incomer as fit-outs & loads change
Wireless retrofit — no new cabling through occupied tenant space
Data structured for accurate cost recharge and reporting
HOTELS & HOSPITALITY
Guest-facing operations
Shedding priorities that never touch guest comfort
Kitchen, laundry and spa plant managed around service times
Standby generator reserved for genuine mains failure
Sequenced alongside existing M&E and compliance works
Engineering credibility, since 1986
Energy and maximum demand management sits inside Folio's wider M&E and facilities management service — the same engineers, helpdesk and reporting standards already trusted across our managed portfolio.
