Keep your furnaces, mills, and crushers running

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.

• How do I reduce demand charges from electric arc furnace operations?

  Arc furnaces create some of the sharpest demand spikes in any industry; a single tap can set the demand charge for the entire billing period. Torus sets a demand ceiling and discharges stored energy when your facility approaches it, shaving the peaks that drive your highest charges without interrupting operations.

• What causes power factor penalties at mining and steel facilities?

  Large inductive loads — arc furnaces, conveyor motors, crushers, and rolling mill drives — draw significant reactive power that pushes power factor below the utility's threshold, typically 0.90–0.95. Most utilities charge a penalty when you fall below that range. Torus continuously supplies reactive power to keep your facility within range, eliminating those penalties without requiring separate capacitor banks.

• How do I keep remote pipeline or mine site operations running during grid outages?

  Remote sites often depend on expensive diesel generators as their only backup. Torus transfers critical loads in milliseconds, keeping SCADA, processing, and compression systems online during grid events — and reducing diesel dependency at remote and weak-grid locations.