Albert J Carbon III, P. E.

Public Works Director

SMART Water Meter Energy Savings Guarantee Verification Report – Year 1

In 2017 the City entered into a Energy Savings Contract (ESCO) with Energy Systems Group (ESG) to replace all the City’s water meters with an Automated Water Metering System (SMART) Meters.  The 9,000 plus meter installation and automatic reading was competed in April 2019.  The initial contract requires ESG to conduct annual measurement and verification reports on the results of the ESCO.

The “performance” aspect of performance contracting is affected by how benefits are determined. This Measurement and Verification (M&V) report documents the detailed benefits' calculations and verifies the level of achievement for the benefits as guaranteed by contract.

The Improvement Measures implemented for this project included:

• Installation of cellular based Automated Water Metering system throughout the City to improve accuracy of the system and provide real time meter use data for billing and water leak detection purposes.
• Software Engagement for hosted solution via Badger’s Beacon system.
• Network data collection – Interface with the City’s Tyler Munis system for electronic billing data interface and validation. Meter reading for the new meters will be collected via the Badger’s Beacon System via the cellular transmission, and transmitted to the City’s Tyler Munis system.

The first year verification report was completed in April 2020 (Attached).  After the first year of operation, ESG verified that the achieved operational cost savings and increased billable revenue for the first year were $1,122,151.  The Year 1 achieved benefits are $295,031 more than the guaranteed benefits.

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