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%.

This project introduced a new challenge for Derceto, as EMWD's energy supply comes from both electricity and gas. The Aquadapt system is being configured not only to shift energy from the expensive peak TOU periods to off-peak, but also to determine the cheapest pumping option based on gas prices versus electricity prices, while also accounting for the differing pump efficiencies of gas and electric pumps. To add to the complexity of the solution, Derceto was faced with gas prices that change monthly and without forewarning. Yet the Aquadapt software still calculates the optimum volume of gas to purchase based on its actual price.

Implementation was completed in August 2006.

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Press Release

Mike Espejo - Technical Support Specialist (North America)

Mike Espejo brings over 20 years experience in the Water / Waste-Water Industry to his role at Derceto, with 18 years of that in the Operations Dept of the 5th largest Water Company in California.

For the last 8 years Mike supervised the Control Room at Eastern Municipal Water District. There he managed the Potable and Recycled systems along with System Control Operators, Dispatch Team and Planner / scheduler staff in a 24/7 operation. Mike is a certified by the California Department of Public Health and maintains T-3 Treatment Operators’ certificate and a D-5 Water Distribution System Operators’ certificate.

Based in Riverside County CA,  Mike will be utilizing his operations expertise to manage and provide in-country support to existing Derceto Aquadapt installations in North America. He will also strengthen the delivery process for new Aquadapt installation projects with a particular focus on managing the essential operator input to project design and then deliver appropriate training during and after the installation.

K Water from Korea start two Phase 1 Feasibility Projects

K Water, the bulk supplier of water to nearly all of Korea, has awarded two feasibility projects to Derceto.  These two studies are being undertaken in collaboration with our in-country partner, EnE System who have already supplied technical specialists for the projects to work in the Derceto New Zealand office. The first study is for an area covering about 1/4 of Seoul.  With 2000 ML daily demand for this sub-system and the capacity to deliver 20,000 ML per day to the whole of Seoul this is the largest single distribution system every analysed by Derceto.  The second study is for the city of Ulsan in the south of Korea. It has a daily demand of 1200 MLD making it similar in capacity to some of the US reference sites.

Derceto opens up office in Canada

Derceto Inc. responding to increased business in the Canadian market opened up an office in Toronto, Ontario earlier this year.  This office will provide closer contacts for our many Canadian customers and act as a springboard for increased future growth in the Ontario and wider Canadian market. 

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 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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