City of Everman Overcomes Water Loss and Gains Significant Water and Energy Savings
Challenge
When the City of Everman realized it was losing millions of gallons of water monthly they turned to NextEra Energy Services and put their tax dollars to work. Mr. Michael Gunderson, Everman City Manager, explained, “Like many small cities with limited resources, some of our processes remained somewhat antiquated (i.e., our water meter reading). Additionally, we had never evaluated our use of electricity. After I explained to NextEra Energy Services how three city workers spent up to a week reading our water meter, and how clumsy and inaccurate the process was to post those readings, they presented a proposal.”
Solution
In an effort to help the residents of Everman, NextEra Energy Services conducted an analysis of the City’s water meters and electrical consumption. “NextEra Energy’s proposal noted they could fix our meter reading process, reduce electrical energy consumption and pay for it with our savings. It showed that replacing old meters plagued by diminished reading accuracy, and installing an auto-read meter system, could result in significant savings. NextEra Energy also recommended replacing all city lighting with LED lighting fixtures (again, paying for itself with reduced kWh consumption) and they even arranged for financing,” noted Mr. Gunderson.
Result
After putting the project to a vote, and being approved by city council, NextEra Energy Services installed 1,968 new water meters throughout the city, which allowed them to read all of the meters in one day and reduce labor costs overall. In addition to the new accurate-reading water meters, NextEra Energy Services retrofitted several city facilities with LED lighting technology. The project recovered more than $70,000 in lost revenue and saved nearly $18,000 in operating costs.
Over $2.2MM
20-year total
savings projection*
$65,733
First-year savings in
water meter revenue*
$2,700
First-year water
meter saving*
$17,969
First-year
lighting savings*
Today, we can read our meters in one day and in any weather. The labor savings is huge. And with same day readings every month, our data is more accurate, consistent and we have fewer customer complaints. The LED lighting reduced our electric invoices from around $20,000/month to an average of $16,000. That savings pays over one half of our total annual loan payment.
Mr. Gunderson | Everman City Manager
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By working with NextEra Energy Services and both saving resources and measuring more accurately, the City of Everman has saved substantially on energy consumption and water loss over time.
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*Savings may vary.
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