A 10% COP drop is AED millions a year
When a chiller is silently degrading, the plant's electricity bill grows quietly. The cumulative cost is in AED millions before anyone catches it in a monthly report — and it compounds month over month.
Sectors Serviced · District Cooling
Catch plant drift before COP collapses.
Novek gives operators, plant managers, and asset performance leads earlier visibility into the centrifugal chillers, CHW pumps, cooling towers, and ETSs that, when they drift, eat the COP, the energy bill, and the customer SLA — before the next audit cycle catches it.
Independent measurement layerAuditable AED waste reportingUAE data residency
The problem
A district cooling plant doesn't fail loudly — it degrades silently for months.
By the time the next thermal walk-down catches the drift, the energy bill has already absorbed AED millions. The audit cycle is eighteen months late to the conversation, and the customer ETSs nobody can verify with a clipboard keep generating disputes.
01 02 Compressor failure equals customer outage
A centrifugal chiller failure takes MW of cooling offline. SLA penalties, emergency procurement (10+ week lead time on big compressors), and a reputation conversation with the largest accounts.
03 Cooling-tower drift before fouling shows
Fill degradation, approach-temperature drift, basin drawdown — all visible in continuous data weeks before a manual thermal walk-down catches them, and months before the energy bill confirms it.
04 ETS performance vs. customer billing
Energy transfer station drift, undermeasurement, or tampering is hard to verify without an independent measurement layer the customer cannot dispute — and impossible to settle without continuous evidence.
Equipment we monitor
Chillers, pumps, towers, ETSs, and the distribution network.
Coverage starts with the assets where degradation hits COP or customer SLA first. Common starting points include:
- Centrifugal chillers
- CHW pumps
- Condenser water pumps
- Cooling towers
- TES tanks
- Energy Transfer Stations
- VFDs & drives
- Distribution electrical
Plant scale to ETS scale
One measurement layer — from the chiller hall to the customer ETS.
Wireless industrial sensors deployed across the chiller hall, the cooling-tower bank, and the customer ETSs. Continuous COP tracking. An independent measurement layer that the plant operator owns — and the ETS customer can trust.
Real scenarios
What changes when the drift is visible weekly, not yearly.
Without Novek
- Compressor health drops silently over 8 weeks
- COP falls 12%, energy bill grows monthly
- Bill increase noticed in quarterly review
- Catastrophic failure → 10+ week parts lead time
With Novek
- Vibration spectrum + current draw flagged drift in week 2
- Bearing replacement scheduled into next planned outage
- Plant returns to design COP
- Emergency rebuild avoided
Emergency rebuild avoided · COP restored · AED-millions saved on the bill
Start where degradation hits COP first
One chiller line. One ETS group. One measurable risk.
Novek can begin with a focused Failure Visibility Assessment on a single chiller train, a customer ETS group, or a cooling tower bank — proving value where the COP impact is highest before extending across the plant or network.
Scope
One chiller line, ETS group, or tower bank
Mode
Independent measurement overlay
Output
Findings + continuous COP record
Decision
Expand by plant, by network, by customer