How I Work: From Feasibility to Live Operation
The diagram above is the full pathway, not just the study. It shows what happens from the first plant assessment through to your plant running under live price responsive control, and where a retailer and a systems integrator come into the process alongside Delprosa and you as the client.
The feasibility phase
This is the part I do independently, using your plant data and real market pricing, before any capital or operational commitment is made.
- Assess plant. Establish the real constraints on your pumps, blowers, and any storage or generation assets, so the model reflects what your plant can actually do.
- Review retail. Understand your current tariff and contract position, since the value of demand response depends partly on what you are moving away from.
- Build model. Set up a simulation engine specific to your plant configuration.
- Validate model. Check the model against your actual plant data before it is used for anything decision grade.
- Run simulation. Backtest the model against historical five minute market prices using a forecast driven approach, not an averaged estimate.
- Sensitivity analysis. Test the result across a range of price outcomes, so the business case reflects real volatility rather than a single scenario.
- Assess capex option. Where relevant, test whether additional storage or digestion capacity would be justified once the energy value is properly accounted for.
- Develop business case. Bring all of this together into a report quantifying the saving, its sensitivity, and the case for any further investment.
The approval decision
The business case is built to be put in front of your board or council as it stands. What happens next is entirely your decision. If the numbers do not support proceeding, the study has still answered the question, and you have avoided spending on a control system that was not going to earn its keep.
Delivery
If you decide to proceed, there are two ways the next phase can run. I can project manage the SCADA and control integration on your behalf, working with an integrator through to commissioning, or your organisation can manage that phase internally with your own delivery team, whichever suits your governance and resourcing. Either way, the business case and control logic developed in the feasibility phase carries through unchanged.
The integrator builds the control logic into your SCADA platform, based on the same constraints and logic validated in the simulation. Where I am project managing the delivery, I work directly with them through that build so the delivered system matches what was modelled, not a simplified version of it.
Your electricity retail arrangement, tariff, contract, or spot price exposure, is a commercial arrangement between your organisation and your retailer directly. I am not party to that agreement and do not negotiate it on your behalf, but I can facilitate the conversation and help you understand what to ask for, based on what the business case shows is actually worth pursuing.
Live operation and ongoing value
Once commissioned, the forecast driven logic developed during the feasibility phase is what actually drives control on your plant day to day. The system responds to price the same way it did in the simulation, because it is built on the same model.
The result is lower electricity cost and lower net emissions, sustained as an ongoing operating outcome rather than a one off saving.
Where to start
Every plant is different, and the diagram above only means something once it is applied to your actual pumps, blowers, and digestion or generation assets. The first step is the plant assessment, which tells us quickly whether there is a case worth building.
Contact me to scope a feasibility assessment for your plant ->