Clients

Eastern Municipal Water District Stage 2, Perris Valley, CA

Moreno Valley
Following the very successful Stage 1 Moreno Valley project Eastern Municipal Water District awarded Derceto the second stage roll-out of Aquadapt in December 2006. The extended system will cover almost the entire distribution system.  With more than 160 additional pumps (making over 200 in total)  this is the largest Aquadapt system to date.  On site implementation commenced in late July 2007 and was complete in September 2007. It is also the first Aquadapt 5.0 system installed in the world.

Eastern Municipal Water District, Perris, CA

Perris Valley, home of EMWD

EMWD's system services a population of 570,000 people in Southern California with Derceto's Aquadapt software initially being implemented in the Moreno Valley area of the system. This area uses between 50-60% of EMWD's entire electricity costs and uses the largest portion of Time-of-Use (TOU) charges. Aquadapt software is projected to cut their electricity costs in the Moreno Valley area by over 15%.

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Laurel, MD

rocky gorge dam

WSSC is by far the largest utility Derceto has worked with to date and is one of the 10 largest utilities in the USA, servicing over 1.6 million people. Aquadapt software has been installed to control over 80 pumps, 25 pressure reducing valves and two huge water filtration plants, currently producing an average of 167 million gallons of drinking water per day! Their annual energy bill tops $7.1million and their Aquadapt system is projected to cut this cost by over $600,000 per year.

Water District No.1 of Johnson County, Kansas, KS

WaterOne office

WaterOne differs from our previous clients in that the Aquadapt system will control or recommend pumping schedules for the entire water distribution process, from source to household. Aquadapt software is being implemented to not only produce the most energy efficient pumping schedule from a water treatment plant (WTP), but also to recommend pumping schedules from the rivers to the WTP, enabling operators to use alternative sources of water to supply demand and exploit the differences in tariffs between providers. By using Aquadapt software WaterOne is expected to save almost one fifth of its annual $5 million energy bill. And this is despite its bulk storage being almost exclusively ground water repump stations. It also means pay back for their Aquadapt system is expected to take just over one year.

Maroochydore Water Services, Queensland, Australia

Maroochy beach in Queensland

Maroochy Water Services in the beautiful seaside City of Maroochydore is located on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. The key driver for this project was to smooth the flows from the two large gravity supplied water treatment plants. Distribution to 12 flow control stations is under gravity flows with an additional eight booster pump stations supplying higher zones.

East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA

EBMUD Offices

EBMUD was Derceto's first major implementation in North America. Derceto was awarded the contract in October 2003 and a Detailed Design study was completed by December 2003. Implementation began in late July 2004 over a pilot area of EBMUD's system. The area under Aquadapt software control is 20% of their entire system, but represents 35% of their annual electricity costs.

During three years of operation, Aquadapt software has saved EBMUD 12.7% of its electricity costs, equalling over $1.1M. Post-implementation analysis has also shown that the Aquadapt system has also improved efficiency; using 6.1% less kWh to pump the same volume of water. Aquadapt software does this by automatically taking into account all the hydraulics, looking at all other pump stations, the impact on pipeline and zone pressures and then choosing the most efficient time to run.

Greater Wellington Water, Wellington, New Zealand

The first full installation of Aquadapt software was in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington. This major project controls water distribution into all of Lower Hutt and about half of Wellington City. The implementation of Aquadapt software has required a major expansion in capabilities as it needed to handle multiple parallel plants. Aquadapt software now schedules reservoir pump times and plant flow rates to achieve the lowest overall cost solution using online and real time data. The Aquadapt system computes literally thousands of possible scenarios per second to take into account varying demand, capacity and cost information and presents the pump schedules in a clearly readable format.

In February 2008 GWW contracted Derceto Ltd to replace their version 3.0 software with version 5.5 for the existing system as well as roll-out Aquadapt 5.5 to the remaing 2/3rds of the distribution network

Press Release

Derceto, Inc. Announces Appointment of VP Sales

Press Release San Francisco Dec. 17th, 2007

Energy management company Derceto, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Wes Wood Jr. to the role of Vice President of Sales effective from January 1st 2008. Wes Wood has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and 23 years of control systems experience working in the water and wastewater industry. During this time, Wes has held a number of positions ranging from Design Engineer and Project Manager through to Regional Sales Manager and President & CEO of an Instrumentation and Controls company in the Southeastern U.S. In joining the Derceto team, Wes will add considerable experience and strength to sales, delivery and support activities in North America.

Derceto Selected as a GoingGreen 100 Top Private Company

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.

WaterOne Places Second in Nation in ‘Best of the Best’ Water Tasting Contest

We are delighted to see that WaterOne were selected as having the second best tasting water in the nation at this years 2007 AWWA national conference in Toronto. Congratulations WaterOne!

Derceto Aquadapt was installed into WaterOne in July 2006.  It controls the entire distribution system including setting selections for the raw water intake pumps from the Kansas and Missouri Rivers.

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Awards

EMWD wins AWWA Energy Management Award for Aquadapt project

EMWD Award

Derceto Inc., is pleased to report that Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) was chosen by the California-Nevada Section AWWA as the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Energy Management Award for their Derceto Aquadapt software implementation. Congratulations to EMWD on a successful project and a well deserved outcome

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 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.

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."



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