Lake Tahoe Utility Approach to Efficiency and Improved Operations: How two utilities optimized plant performance.

Friday, April 21, 2023

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM PST

Main Presenter(s)

Brian Villacorta

P.E., BCEE (Water Supply/Wastewater)
Coombs Hopkins
Carlsbad

Slides

Presenter(s)

Adam Clarke

Controls Product Specialist
Aerzen USA
Coatsville, PA
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Kate Nelson

Engineering Manager
Incline Village General Improvement District
Incline Village, Nevada
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Nikolai Nikolov

O&M Superintendent
DCLTSA
Zephyr Cove, Nevada

Track Facilitator(s)

Anthony Pimentel

Process Engineer
Black & Veatch
Los Angeles, CA

Take aways include: understanding of aeration control strategies, a summary of procurement methods to optimize the design and construction, how capital improvement decisions to upgrade aging infrastructure results in annual savings

Learning Objectives:

evaluate the efficiency of their current blower control system and identify areas for process improvement.
apply similar design strategies for future energy efficient projects.
develop projects with use of eligible funding for reduced green house gas emission targets.