East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA

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.

In the Aquadapt system's first year of operation it saved EBMUD 12.5% of its electricity costs, equaling $370,000. Post-implementation analysis has also shown that Aquadapt software also improved efficiency; using 14% 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. In EBMUD's case this 14% energy efficiency improvement is on top of the costs savings derived from moving pumping to off-peak tariff bands.

This was the first implementation of Derceto Aquadapt 4.0 software featuring a raft of new modules and a major revision to convert the entire application to a database driven format.

A joint paper on the project was presented at the 2005 AWWA California/Nevada section Spring and Fall conferences and at the 2005 AWWA National conference in San Francisco.

A copy can be downloaded here.

EBMUD have also written about the project in their "Pipeline" newsletter.

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."