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Aquadapt software's main objective is to minimize costs by choosing the optimal pump schedule solution. Being able to quantify the savings achieved by Aquadapt software would be valuable. Just comparing an electricity bill post Aquadapt system implementation with one prior to Aquadapt software implementation is not going to give a proper estimate because it doesn't take into account the varying water demands. However the Energy Cost Baseline Tool provides a calculation of likely electric power costs based on water usage under a historical pump operational regime. It is made up of two components:
Baseline Calculator
Calculates hourly kWh energy consumption per pumping plant from daily water demand/flow data. The Baseline Calculator runs at the start of each day and analyzes the previous day's 24-hour period of water usage. It calculates the previous day's expected power use in kWh for each pump station.
Energy Reporter
The Energy Reporter uses the kWh estimated by the Baseline Calculator to produce expected power bills per pump station. Each pump station will be under a specific power tariff and all the cost components will be used to calculate the total bill. These can be compared with the actual power costs incurred under Aquadapt software operation and thus estimate savings.
Creating baseline bills is easy:
Select the billing period and the meter accounts and the Energy Reporter produces the expected power bill. The baseline bill will show the expected costs based on the estimated kWh consumption and the existing tariff structure. The costs will be broken down into the different components that make up the tariff: energy costs, demand costs, meter charges etc, and will be displayed in a similar way to the actual power bill. This allows for easy comparison between the actual power bill and the baseline one. The kWh usage will be shown for each the time of use period which is especially useful in order to see how much energy the Aquadapt system moved from the expensive period to the cheap period. The bills can be viewed, printed, or saved to PDF for electronic storage. The Energy Cost Baselining Tool is valuable because it uses water demand data to estimate kWh consumption and thus energy costs. The energy bills produced can be easily used to estimate savings achieved by Aquadapt software.
