Simulation replay
A wastewater treatment plant operating under price-responsive control, simulated against real five-minute wholesale prices from the National Electricity Market. This replay covers June 2025: the month in which the control scheme captured the most value.
June 2025, replayed against real prices
The plant model includes pumping, aeration, solar generation, and biogas cogeneration. The control scheme shifts load and dispatches generation to take advantage of price volatility.
The cost panel tracks the month under both retail and spot pricing, with and without control, so you can see the value the control scheme captures. Use the speed slider to run through the month quickly, pause to inspect any interval, and open the summary button for the month’s totals.
Understand the replay, then apply it to your plant
The fundamentals
How the wholesale market works, and what demand response means for a treatment plant.
The process
How a replay like this is produced: from plant assessment to live operation.
Your plant
The replay above is one plant’s result. Yours depends on your own assets, tariff, and region.
The first step is a plant assessment
The replay above is the output of exactly that process for one plant. For your own plant, the first step is an assessment: your operation modelled against real market data, to establish whether there is a case worth building, and which of the three routes it falls under.