Smart Load Control to Cut Energy Costs Across Any Industry
Delprosa helps water utilities and industrial plant operators cut electricity costs through smart control of flexible load. Using process engineering and electricity market modelling, we identify and quantify the value of shifting when electricity is used, against wholesale market volatility, retail tariff structure, or maximum demand charges, without compromising treatment performance or compliance.
While the current focus of our energy control work is wastewater treatment plants, where pumping, aeration, and biogas cogeneration give real flexibility to work with, the same approach has been delivered across many other sectors: intelligent control of distributed energy assets against wholesale spot prices, model-based predictive control of blast furnace heating, and process simulation and optimisation across oil and gas, chemicals, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. Wherever load can be shifted or generation dispatched within its operating constraints, the same methods apply.
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Our Portfolio
A selection of our work:
Implementation of optimisation controller on distributed energy resources to maximise revenue from wholesale electricity markets.
Research and development to determine the optimal design of a renewable hydrogen production facility with a predictive control algorithm to optimise revenue and carbon emissions to product offtake requirements.
Beyond Energy Control
Delprosa also provides project management, engineering development, R&D, and program management services across water, energy, and manufacturing, drawing on the same engineering foundation behind the energy control work.
Engineering Development · R&D / Technology · Project Management · Program Management
Full microplastics assessment programme: tracking microplastics from the plant to the receiving environment and marine organisms at the discharge point.
Design and construction of the wastewater treatment plant upgrade using a membrane bioreactor to increase capacity and improve effluent quality.
Development of program management software to quantify alignment with business objectives and plan portfolio resources and benefits.
Industries
Trusted across diverse industrial markets:
About Us
Experience, professionalism, and results orientated
We bring deep engineering experience and a hands-on approach to build capabilities for industry. With nearly four decades in process engineering, Delprosa has delivered major projects and managed large-scale operations across industries including steel, minerals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, food, packaging, oil and gas, and water treatment. Recently, we’ve led initiatives in virtual power plant controls, automated energy and carbon monitoring, and integrated electricity market strategies to build competitive flexibility services that simultaneously decarbonise and reduce electricity costs.
Our work is underpinned by strong academic foundations and a commitment to lifelong learning, including mechanical, computer control systems engineering, IT, and project management, to a recent PhD focused on the design and control of integrated renewable energy generation, green hydrogen production, and wastewater treatment. The practice is led by a Chartered Professional Engineer, RPEQ in Chemical, Mechanical, and Information, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering.