Entries Tagged Energy Efficiency

The East Valley Water District can count on one thing for the next 10 years: significant guaranteed savings through an energy performance...

Three large wind turbines are helping to power the Field’s Point Wastewater Treatment Facility, saving money and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The...

Operating costs at the Corbett (Ore.) Water District water treatment plant were steadily increasing, and rates rose accordingly.Jim Jans, district manager, saw...

Pumping with variable-speed pumps can improve process control, save energy, smooth out operation and reduce maintenance for wastewater pump station operators.However, some...

Next Generation Controls and variable-frequency drives from Hoffman & Lamson offer 20 percent annual savings in energy usage when compared to inlet...

From green roofs to new odor control technology, one of Canada’s most technologically advanced clean-water plants is in Calgary, Alberta.The Pine Creek...

As the largest municipal biosolids composting operation in New England, the Hawk Ridge Compost Facility’s main purpose is the beneficial reuse of...

Easing the ratepayers’ burden and shrinking the carbon footprint were the twin objectives of the Cumberland Water Department’s modernization and upgrade of...

Not long ago, a couple of TPO colleagues and I toured the clean-water plant in Stevens Point, Wis. What we saw there...

A European Commission-funded project will see the installation of a pioneering sustainable waste destruction technology at a wastewater treatment facility in Valencia,...

In 2006, the Bangor (Maine) Water District received a notice that electric rates were about to rise sharply. Electricity was already the...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jeremy Cramer, who was superintendent of the Stevens Point Wastewater Treatment Plant at the time this article was researched and...