Energy Management

Wastewater officials talk more and more about turning publicly owned treatment works into publicly owned power plants. They should take a lesson from...

Plant uses microturbines to generate heat and powerProblem: When energy bills at the York (Pennsylvania) Wastewater Treatment Plant topped $63,000 per month...

Europe’s largest floating solar system will soon be installed on a United Utilities’ water reservoir in Greater Manchester. The $5.4 million (U.S.)...

A former executive director of the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, which serves Boynton Beach and Delray Beach, Florida, is facing...

Water customers in Columbia, South Carolina, were placed under a boil advisory this weekend after historic flooding damaged waterlines throughout the city’s...

At Fairborn (Ohio) Utilities, the leadership team is focused on upgrades and plant efficiencies. Take a tour with Superintendent Karen Hawkins as...

When it comes to operating expenses, every wastewater treatment plant needs to consider energy efficiency. After all, energy is a plant's single...

The Pocomoke City Wastewater Treatment Facility isn’t the only beneficiary of a new solar photovoltaic installation in its small Maryland community. The...

Caring. Karen Hawkins and co-workers use that word a lot. As superintendent of Fairborn (Ohio) Utilities, Hawkins has made concern for employees...

Find new business opportunities. Commit to innovation. Lead by influencing change. Engage stakeholders. Invest in infrastructure for the future. Provide quality service. Exercise fiduciary responsibility.Those statements sound like...

Editor's Note: Each month, we'll be bringing you a roundup of new water and wastewater projects from across the country. If you would...

Editor's Note: This article is part of a profile on the Atlantic County (New Jersey) Utilities Authority, which was published in the July 2015...

Clean-water facilities face increasingly strict permit requirements, most notably for nitrogen and phosphorus. The cost to comply can be substantial.Now Kruger, a...

Since mid-September 2014, all electricity at the Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant has come from on-site sources. With about 1 MW of...

Operations changed dramat- ically the day high-pressure water flowed into the lives of Michael Ramsey and his seven operators at the Water...

A California clean-water plant has moved closer to a vision of being off the grid by 2020 through a partnership that now...

Being small is no reason to cut corners. That’s a reason the Mechanic Falls (Maine) Sanitary District has a formal biosolids management...