Water District No.1 of Johnson County, Kansas, KS
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.
WaterOne currently uses a Standard Offer of Service electricity tariff; however the energy market is rapidly changing in the mid-west states. Even after installation the Aquadapt system can easily be converted to work with a Time-of-Use or Real Time pricing tariff enabling WaterOne to reassess and change the way it purchases energy at any time. Aquadapt software will still be able to calculate the cheapest pumping schedule. During the design process, we analyzed future energy purchasing scenarios for WaterOne and determined that Aquadapt software will achieve equal savings with only minor modifications.
Implementation of their Aquadapt system was completed in April 2006.
At the 2002 ACENZ* Awards Derceto took one of the two gold awards for the most outstanding projects of 2002.