Awards

Derceto Selected by The Artemis Project™ as a Top 50 Water Company

Artemis Award

San Francisco, CA (April 22, 2009) - Derceto Inc., today announced that it has been chosen by The Artemis Project™ as a Top 50 Water Companies Competition winner. This award distinguishes Derceto Inc., as a leading company that is helping to build one of the great high-growth industries of the 21st Century. Derceto Inc., was selected by a panel of industry experts based on an integrated matrix of four criteria: technology, intellectual property and know-how, team and market potential .

“The Artemis Project’s Top 50 Water Companies Competition winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the emerging advanced water technology sector,” said Laura Shenkar, Principal of The Artemis Project. “We are excited to spotlight these innovative companies for the first time on the world’s stage and congratulate them for their achievements in introducing the solutions that will reinvent the water landscape.”

“We are thrilled to be recognized by our peers for the innovative product that is Derceto Aquadapt,” said Simon Bunn, Chief Technology Officer of Derceto Inc. “The uptake globally of our operations optimization software has seen many utilities achieve significant energy cost savings, often slicing 15% to 20% off their costs, while simultaneously reducing their carbon footprint.”

Please visit www.theartemisproject.com/competitionpage.html for a full list of the 2009 Top 50 Water Companies Competition winners .

Derceto Selected as a GoingGreen 100 Top Private Company

GoingGreen 2007

Derceto is pleased to announce that we have been chosen by California based AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies for 2007. The first-annual elite GoingGreen 100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the GoingGreen 100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated, with AlwaysOn receiving more than 500 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts.

Derceto Wins Innovation Award

Beca Innovation awards 2005

Derceto has won an Outstanding Achievement in Innovation award at the inaugural Beca Innovation Awards in Auckland.

Derceto CTO wins Entrepreneur of the Year 2005

NZEA Awards

Derceto's Chief Technical Officer, Simon Bunn, won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards held in Wellington in December 2005.

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority Award 2002

EECA Award

Derceto’s New Zealand awards include a Highly Commended the 2002 EECA EnergyWise Awards,  This is a government funded initiative to encourage energy efficiency programs across industry and local government organizations.


Association of Consulting Engineers (NZ) Awards 2002

At the 2002 ACENZ* Awards Derceto took one of the two gold awards for the most outstanding projects of 2002.

"The software has proved to be robust, user-friendly, flexible and reliable, and since its introduction into the system in June 2000, has effected substantial savings for the client."

Feature Article

Australian Water Association Journal Article on Aquadapt

The June 2009 AWA Water Journal publish an article by Simon Bunn, Derceto CTO, on pump energy efficiency.

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Derceto Feature in IBM Journal of Research and Development

The 2009 IBM Journal of Research and Development publish an article by Simon Bunn, Derceto CTO, on data mining and visualisation.  This introduces the concept of 'virtual instrumentation', a key component of the Aquadapt Dashboard.

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April 2009 Water & Wastes Digest Article on Pump Efficiency

The April 2009 Water & Wastes Digest (WWD) publish an article by Derceto CTO, Simon Bunn, on pump efficiency.

WWD "Get Pumped" article (Web link to magazine)

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September 2007 article in "Waterworld" magazine

Mouchel Parkman has joined up with New Zealand-based company Derceto to help British water companies reduce their energy costs and carbon footprint.
Article in Waterworld on the collaboration between Derceto and Mouchel Group in the UK.

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April 2007 article in "Water Efficiency" magazine

by Amy Sorkin Kurland

Pump-scheduling software helps the East Bay Municipal IUtility District lower costs without compromising water pressure.

An article on the East Bay MUD experience with Derceto with some insights from a users perspective.

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February 2007 article in Distributed Energy

by Amy Sorkin Kurland

Water transportation is costly enough as it is, but with electricity rates continuing to rise, many in the industry are working even harder than ever to find new technology that will reduce those costs..

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Quick Facts

Creating savings in both energy and demand

Electricity tariffs target both energy (kWh) and peak instantaneous demand (kW). While most people focus on energy the demand charges can make up more than 40% of an energy bill. Aquadapt achieves savings in both energy and demand.