Protect your process lines and margins from power disruptions

Your questions, answered.

• What does a Torus Station cost?

  Qualifying Rocky Mountain Power, Pacific Power, and Portland General Electric customers pay no capital cost — the utility covers it. You pay a monthly subscription for monitoring and maintenance, which is typically less than your bill savings (and that's not including savings from prevented downtime or machine damage). Outside those territories, Torus offers energy as a service, a single monthly payment covering your full system, or direct purchase options.

• Will installation disrupt our operations?

  Part of the installation process requires a brief scheduled outage, typically around 2 hours, to connect to your facility's line-side bus. This can be planned around production hours or overnight windows. The rest of the installation happens outside the facility with no impact to operations.

• Does Torus work with continuous chemical processes and batch manufacturing?

  Yes. Torus learns your facility's load profile — whether you're running continuous reactor operations, batch injection molding, or multi-stage textile finishing — and continuously adapts as processes, shifts, and equipment change to lower your energy costs over time.

• How do I reduce demand charges in a chemical or plastics manufacturing facility?

  Demand charges are set by your single highest peak in a billing period. These are often triggered by simultaneous reactor startups, extruder ramp-ups, or motor loads. Torus learns your load profile, sets a demand limit, and discharges automatically when your facility approaches it, keeping that peak from setting your bill.

• What causes power quality problems in process manufacturing?

  Most power quality issues in chemical, plastics, and textile facilities often trace back to grid-side voltage sags — brief voltage drops that trip VFDs, reset PLCs, and fault process controls. These events are often invisible until equipment stops mid-cycle. Torus corrects voltage sags in milliseconds at the line-side bus, before they reach your equipment.