Eye-Opening

Stimulus funds help the Scottsdale Water Resources Department see the potential for energy efficiency from savings from more efficient aeration.
Eye-Opening
Two 300 hp APG-Neuros turbo blowers will save the Scottsdale Water Campus wastewater treatment plant about 47.5 million kWh over the next 10 years, a reduction of about 40 percent. The units can be adjusted to match wastewater flows. The $771,000 cost was covered by a U.S. DOE grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in 2009, officials with the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Water Resources Department were drawn to it by the availability of grant funding.

Scottsdale secured a grant through the U.S. Department of Energy for turbo blowers to replace...

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