Thermal camera image of a distribution board showing a hotspot at 45.6 °C

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Xnovest Africa has been servicing the energy industry for more than a decade — all sectors, all environments. We find the inefficiency, quantify it, and engineer the fix.

Energy is not a grey area. It is an asset, and it should be managed like one.

Rising energy and resource costs mean energy can no longer sit as an unexamined line on a plant budget. We treat it as a managed asset: measured, baselined, analysed and then actively improved.

Our work spans mining, industrial, commercial, residential and agricultural operations — load shifting, profile development, general efficiency, bill verification and baseline development.

See what you cannot

Thermal survey — drag to reveal

A loose termination or an overloaded circuit looks completely normal in visible light. Under a thermal camera it is unmissable. These are our own survey images from live client sites.

Distribution board photographed in normal visible light, showing nothing unusual — Distribution board. Nothing visible to the eye — the thermal image puts the peak at 45.6 °C against a 40.2 °C floor, isolating a single circuit for investigation.

The same distribution board under a thermal camera, showing a hotspot — Distribution board. Nothing visible to the eye — the thermal image puts the peak at 45.6 °C against a 40.2 °C floor, isolating a single circuit for investigation.

Contactor and breaker assembly in an enclosure, photographed in visible light — Contactor assembly. The thermal scan reaches 82.3 °C at the termination while the surrounding gear sits near 45.7 °C — the signature of a connection that needs attention before it fails.

The same contactor assembly under a thermal camera showing a hot termination — Contactor assembly. The thermal scan reaches 82.3 °C at the termination while the surrounding gear sits near 45.7 °C — the signature of a connection that needs attention before it fails.

Thermal image of a motor assembly showing a maximum temperature of 97.4 °C — Motor assembly — 97.4 °C max, 70.4 °C min, 89.0 °C average.

Thermal image of a breaker bank showing a hotspot at 63.8 °C — Breaker bank — a single pole at 63.8 °C against a 51.8 °C baseline.

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