Cut energy costs and prevent outages at critical facilities

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, but it's minimal and planned around your operating schedule. The rest of the installation happens outside the facility with no impact to operations. Torus connects to the line-side bus, not individual circuits, which keeps installation scope contained.

• How does Torus work alongside our existing generators and UPS systems?

  Torus fills the gaps your existing backup systems don't cover: voltage sags too brief to trigger a generator transfer but long enough to trip equipment, and the 5–30 second window between a grid outage and generator startup.

• How do airports manage demand charges from ground support electrification?

  As airports electrify ground support equipment, ramp vehicles, and gate systems, demand charges from overlapping load spikes grow. Torus learns the campus load profile and automatically caps demand peaks, so a surge from EV chargers and gate equipment running simultaneously doesn't set the demand charge for the billing period.

• What backup power options exist for water and wastewater treatment plants?

  Most water utilities rely on diesel generators for extended outages, but generators don't protect against the more frequent issue: voltage sags that trip sanitation equipment pumps and blowers. Torus corrects voltage sags in milliseconds, keeping pump operations running through grid disturbances. For outages, Torus bridges the gap before generator transfer and provides up to 4 hours of backup for critical loads without a genset.