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Calculate Your Water Savings

Projects will vary from company to company. Our sample calculation for rebates is based on the scenario below:

Company X's existing equipment operates 8 hours per day, 250 days per year, and discharges 55 gallons per minute (gpm) to the sanitary sewer. Company X proposes to replace this piece of equipment with a similar one that operates on the same schedule, but discharges only 30 gpm. The estimated project cost is $80,000.

Applying the Formula

a = water usage rate of old equipment = 55 gpm
b = water usage rate of new equipment = 30 gpm
c = average time equipment runs per day = 8 hrs x 60 min/hr = 480 min
d = number of days per year equipment runs = 250 days
e = number of gallons per ccf = 748
ccf = hundred cubic feet

Annual ccf decrease

= (a-b) x (c) x (d)

(e)

= (55-30) x 480 x 250

748

= 4,011

WET Rebate = $4 per ccf/yr
$4 x 4011 = $16,044 = total project rebate for Company X

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Last Modified Date: 1/6/2009

 
 

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