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Know what every kilowatt-hour costs you.

Voltares tracks grid, generator and solar power across your business sites, reads fuel receipts with AI, flags diesel that goes missing, and forecasts next month’s energy bill.

Built for
Nigerian SMEs
Plans from
₦10,000/mo
Works in
Any browser
Grid
₦209/kWh · 41%
Generator
₦392/kWh · 48%
Solar
₦38/kWh · 11%
Ikeja Bakery · Oct
₦286/kWh
96 L diesel unaccounted
Nov forecast ₦1.91M
Sample data
Grid + generator + solar
in one site record
Receipts read by AI
photo in, fields out
Fuel-loss flags
against each generator’s baseline
30-day forecasts
of energy spend per site
The three-source problem

Most businesses pay for power three ways and can’t see the total.

A Lagos bakery buys prepaid tokens for the grid, diesel for a 60 kVA generator, and may have paid for a solar system upfront. Each comes with its own receipts, its own people, and its own blind spots. By month-end, nobody can say what the bakery spent per kWh, how much diesel was lost, or whether solar is paying back.

Spreadsheets break as soon as there’s a second site. Diesel is bought in cash by different people at different prices. And because generator fuel use is never compared with actual runtime, losses stay invisible.

Grid

Token SMS scattered across staff phones. Band A vs Band B tariff changes go unnoticed.

Generator

Diesel bought in cash from multiple vendors. No link between litres bought and hours run.

Solar

Installed on a vendor’s estimate. No one measures how much generator time it really saves.

With Voltares

All three sources are logged in one place per site. Voltares calculates the blended cost per kWh, checks every litre of diesel against generator runtime, and tells you what next month will cost — so leaks get caught in days and energy decisions are made on evidence.

Capabilities

Everything you need to control power spend, site by site.

One energy record per site

Meter readings, prepaid token purchases, diesel deliveries, generator runtime and solar output sit in one timeline for each location instead of across WhatsApp, notebooks and SMS.

→ Ops and finance finally look at the same numbers.

AI receipt reading

Snap a photo of a fuel receipt or paste a token SMS. Voltares extracts vendor, litres, unit price, total and date, and asks for confirmation only when something is unclear.

→ No manual typing for site managers.

Fuel-loss detection

Each generator gets a consumption baseline for its rating and load. Purchases that don’t match runtime, or tank levels that don’t match delivered litres, are flagged for review.

→ Catch siphoning and short deliveries the week they happen.

True cost per kWh

Blends tariff band, token spend, diesel price and solar output into a cost per kWh for each source and each site, updated with every entry.

→ See exactly how much each generator hour costs you.

30-day spend forecast

Projects next month’s energy bill from recent grid availability, generator hours and current diesel prices, with a range rather than a single guess.

→ Budget for power the way you budget for payroll.

Fuel approval queue

Purchases above a threshold wait for a manager’s approval. Every decision is logged with who approved it and when.

→ Clear accountability for cash spent on diesel.

Solar and load-shift advice

Uses your real daytime load to estimate how much generator time a solar array of a given size would replace, and which heavy loads could move into grid supply windows.

→ Make the solar decision on your data, not a vendor’s quote.

See it with sample dataOpen the demo
How it works

From a receipt photo to a decision in four steps.

  1. 01

    Log

    Site staff add meter readings, token purchases, fuel receipts and runtime from a phone browser.

  2. 02

    Extract

    AI reads receipts and SMS, pulls out litres, amounts and dates, and checks for duplicates.

  3. 03

    Analyse

    Consumption is compared with each generator’s baseline; cost per kWh and forecasts are recalculated.

  4. 04

    Act

    Managers review flagged entries, approve purchases and track spend across every site.

Interactive demo

Try the Voltares workspace.

Switch sites, toggle energy sources, search the fuel log, and open a flagged entry to review it. Everything here runs in your browser on fictional sample data.

app.voltares.siteSample data

Ikeja Bakery

60 kVA Perkins · Solar 10 kWp · Band B
Energy cost, Oct
₦1,842,500
Diesel bought
1,265 L
Generator hours
212 h
Cost per kWh
₦286
kWh by source · 14 days
Oct 18Oct 31
Grid 39%Generator 51%Solar 10%
AI insights
  • Generator supplied 52% of energy but 71% of cost this period. Ovens running 6–9 AM on generator could move to grid supply windows, which averaged 5.2 hrs/day.
  • Projected November energy spend: ₦1.91M (±8%) if diesel stays at ₦1,130/L.
  • Two fuel entries above the consumption baseline. Review FL-2291.
EntryDateLitresAmountL/hrStatus
FL-2291Oct 31400₦452,00012.9Flagged
FL-2288Oct 28300₦336,00010Normal
FL-2281Oct 24300₦333,0009.7Normal
FL-2276Oct 20265₦296,8009.8Normal
Activity
  • Receipt read: FL-2291 · 400 L · ₦452,0002 min ago
  • Anomaly flagged at Ikeja Bakery2 min ago
  • Prepaid token logged · Lekki Clinic · ₦150,0001 hr ago
  • Meter reading added · Wuse Office3 hrs ago
  • FL-2288 approved by FinanceYesterday
Who it’s for

Built for businesses that can’t afford to be in the dark.

The problem

Ovens and cold rooms run whether NEPA supply is on or not, so diesel can be half of the energy bill.

How they use Voltares

Log every delivery and runtime per generator, and move early-morning baking into grid supply windows.

The benefit

Lower diesel spend per batch and proof of where the fuel went.

Technology

How We Use Amazon Web Services

Voltares’ proposed architecture runs on serverless AWS services so that a receipt photographed at a generator house in Ikeja becomes a verified, analysed energy record within seconds — and so costs scale with the number of sites we serve rather than with idle servers.

01
Data collection
Amazon API Gateway

Receives meter readings, runtime logs and receipt uploads from the web app.

02
Secure storage
Amazon S3

Stores receipt images and token SMS screenshots, encrypted at rest.

03
Processing
AWS Lambda + Amazon Textract

Extracts receipt fields and normalises entries into site records.

04
AI intelligence
Amazon Bedrock + Amazon SageMaker

Explains anomalies in plain language and forecasts energy spend.

05
Application
Amazon DynamoDB + Amazon Cognito

Serves site records to signed-in teams with role-based access.

  • Amazon S3: Stores uploaded fuel receipts, token SMS screenshots and exported reports.
  • Amazon Textract: Reads vendor, litres, unit price, total and date from photographed fuel receipts.
  • AWS Lambda: Runs extraction, cost-per-kWh calculation and anomaly checks whenever a new entry arrives.
  • Amazon API Gateway: Provides the secure API between the Voltares web app and back-end functions.
  • Amazon DynamoDB: Holds sites, generators, energy entries, approvals and audit history.
  • Amazon Bedrock: Generates plain-language explanations of flagged entries and site recommendations.
  • Amazon SageMaker: Trains and hosts per-site consumption baselines and the 30-day spend forecast model.
  • Amazon Cognito: Handles sign-in and roles for site staff, managers and finance users.
  • Amazon Simple Email Service: Sends anomaly alerts, approval requests and monthly reports.
  • Amazon CloudWatch: Monitors processing jobs and alerts the team when extraction fails.
Pricing

Simple monthly plans in naira.

Starter

One site, one operator

₦10,000 /month
  • Grid, generator and solar log for 1 site
  • Receipt and token capture
  • Monthly cost per kWh by source
  • Email alerts for fuel anomalies
Request early access

Growth

Most popular

Growing businesses with a few locations

₦20,000 /month
  • Up to 3 sites
  • Everything in Starter
  • AI spend forecast for the next 30 days
  • Approval queue for fuel purchases
  • Team access with roles
Request early access

Business

Multi-site operators

₦40,000 /month
  • Up to 10 sites
  • Everything in Growth
  • Cross-site benchmarking
  • Solar and load-shift recommendations
  • CSV export for finance
Request early access

Running more than 10 sites? Contact us about a multi-site plan.

Team

The Team Behind Voltares

SA
Saad Abdulsalam
Founder

Saad founded Voltares in 2026 to give Nigerian businesses a clear view of what they spend on power across the grid, generators and solar. He leads product, engineering and early-access partnerships.

Early access

Be one of the first sites on Voltares.

We’re building the initial product now and working with a small group of Nigerian businesses to shape it. Early-access sites get onboarding help and a direct line to the team.

  • Interactive demo available today
  • Web app in development
  • Pricing confirmed from ₦10,000/month