Tynemarch - Welsh Water target energy savings

16 June 2014

Servelec Group plc ("Servelec")

Tynemarch Systems

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water target energy savings in water supply

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has commissioned Tynemarch Systems to undertake a 6 month pilot of the MISER real-time, sub-daily pump and valve scheduling software, to identify the electricity and other operating cost savings that can be achieved, whilst maintaining security of supply.

The initial implementation of the system will be used to provide pump schedules and monitor the performance of the Heads of the Valley area comprising some 8 reservoirs and 5 sources.

MISER will take live information such as flows and reservoir levels from the Servelec SCOPE-X telemetry system to forecast demand over the following few days and then produce pump and valve control settings automatically to manage the water supply network night and day to meet customer demands, licences and other constraints at minimum cost.

A key benefit to Dwr Cymru Welsh Water is that MISER provides a holistic view of network operation and helps to control the flows through water treatment works, such as maintaining a steady flow where treatment is sensitive to flow fluctuations.

The system will also support Dwr Cymru Welsh Water in responding to routine maintenance and unplanned network events, to prevent or minimise any impact on customers. MISER can be used to provide operators with the most cost-effective strategy to recover from unplanned outages arising from equipment failure or pollution incidents for example.

A key feature of MISER is that it can optimise the operating costs of both medium-term operation (monthly) and long-term (yearly) resource utilisation (production planning) as well as short-term sub-daily pump and valve control.

Tynemarch will provide support and maintenance for the system which will be operated from the Dwr Cymru Welsh Water control room.

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water personnel will be trained to enable them to extend the MISER models to cover the remaining areas of the water supply system, with the support of the Tynemarch support desk, if needed.

About Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Welsh Water is the sixth largest of the ten regulated water and sewerage companies in England and Wales. Responsible for providing over three million people with a continuous, high quality supply of drinking water and for taking away, treating and properly disposing of the wastewater that is produced, we are fully committed to delivering best quality service at least possible cost.

Since 2001, we have been owned, financed and managed by Glas Cymru. Unique in the water and sewerage sector, Glas Cymru is a company limited by guarantee and as such has no shareholders.

About Tynemarch

Tynemarch Systems Limited is a leading company providing specialist software and engineering consultancy to the water and environmental management industries, and is a Servelec Group company. Clients include most of the UK water companies, the Environment Agency, as well as many of the large consultants to the industry. MISER is licensed to 10 companies in the UK as well as the Environment Agency, the Canal and Rivers Trust and some of the largest consultancy firms in the UK.

Tynemarch is part of Servelec Technologies Group, the Company within Servelec Group plc, under which sits all of Servelec's SCADA and telemetry-related businesses. In addition to Semaphore, the group includes Semaphore and Servelec Systems. Servelec Technologies is a global provider of business optimisation solutions, comprising SCADA, software solutions, Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and consultancy services.

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Notes to Editors

Servelec Group has two divisions; Servelec Healthcare and Servelec Automation:

Servelec Healthcare specialises in the design, development and implementation of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and Patient Administration Systems (PAS) within secondary care settings and is a market leader in the Mental Health and Community Health sectors in England. It has three key products:

· RiO - an EPR software solution for the recording and documenting the provision of healthcare services.

· Oceano - a recently developed modular PAS and EPR software system handling care management in Acute Care settings.

· PICS - a rules-based clinical decision support software system developed by University Hospitals Birmingham for use in Acute Care hospitals supporting a range of specialities in inpatient and outpatient care settings.

Servelec Automation provides complex, mission-critical control systems to large blue-chip companies mainly in the UK, focusing on the oil & gas, nuclear, power, water, utilities and broadcast industries. Servelec Automation also provides services from consultancy through to design, implementation, delivery, installation and on-going customer support and maintenance.