Smart energy savings for wastewater treatment plants
Delprosa shows you how to unlock latent storage capacity in your WWTP that shifts load to cheaper periods and reduces peak demand, without jeopardising stable operations. Configured to your plant, our process simulation model quantifies the expected savings and demonstrates how the plant will operate.
How to operate your plant, whichever route you take
1. Tariff Optimisation
Best if: you’re locked into your current contract.
Operational changes within your existing contract, with no change to your retailer relationship or risk position.
2. Alternate Tariffs
Best if: your contract is coming up for renewal.
The simulation tests a competing offer against your real operation before you switch, so hidden shifts in time-of-use don’t catch you out.
3. Demand Response
Best if: you have appetite for wholesale price exposure.
The business case for wholesale market exposure, with process scheduling designed to capture it without compromising treatment.
The savings historic usage can’t show you
Tariff structures and price signals tell you what electricity costs. Historic energy data tells you how the plant was actually operated. Neither shows what’s possible. The simulation applies price-responsive control to the same plant, the same process constraints and the same treatment targets, giving a like-for-like comparison based on real data rather than assumptions. This works standalone or alongside any energy efficiency programme already in place.
Compared against your baseline, not an assumed percentage
The saving is the difference between how the plant runs today and how it would run under price-responsive control, quantified hour by hour across a full year.
A visualiser that shows how the plant would be controlled, not just the numbers
You can see the setpoints, schedules and process responses the controller would use, so the business case is something you can inspect and interrogate.
Assessing a capital investment
Any of the three routes can extend into a CAPEX Business Case Assessment, testing whether new or larger assets, such as pumps, blowers, storage, solar PV, batteries or cogeneration, would strengthen the outcome. The simulation quantifies that benefit in the same model. Where a case supports moving ahead, Delprosa can help deliver the engineering design and project management through to commissioning.
Industrial experience, applied to wastewater treatment
With a process and operations background in energy-intensive industries, Dr Rickey Donald has been deploying simulation models for over 25 years, with a long history in project delivery and research from the wastewater sector. That breadth means the simulation captures how real industrial processes respond to changes in operation, so recommendations hold up in practice. Delprosa takes no revenue share or commission, so there is no incentive to inflate the expected benefits. The same method applies to any plant with flexible, controllable load such as pumping, compression, refrigeration, batch processing, so it’s worth a conversation if you operate outside water and wastewater.
You stay in control of the engagement
Retail negotiation: led by you
You hold the commercial relationship, and Delprosa stays independent, so negotiating with your retailer is something you lead. Delprosa supports those discussions where useful, without ever becoming the intermediary.
Control system integration: your choice
Implementation is approached however you prefer. Many clients mandate their trusted integrator, and Delprosa works with any integrator you choose. You can project manage the implementation yourself, or hand it to Delprosa as part of a delivery engagement.
The first step is a plant assessment
It tells you quickly whether there is a case worth building, and which of the three routes fits your circumstances. It is the same first step under every engagement.