Veolia is one of the market leader companies in Hungary in the energy, water and waste management industry.

The group company employs approximately 2,500 people who provide professional services to various towns, institutions and industrial companies enabling them to efficient manage resources, while the water utility and district heating branches of the company supply drinking water to hundreds of thousands of families, and heat to tens of thousands of households.

With its more than 20-year professional experience Veolia is a determining participant of the Hungarian energy market. The energy branch of the company group provides energy to various institutions of 50 local municipalities, 85 state-owned and public buildings, 30 health institutions and 31 industrial plants, while its district heating networks supply 67,000 residential and institutional customers nationwide. In the three power plants of the company operate high-efficiency natural gas blocks and blocks utilizing renewable energy (biomass).

In Hungary Veolia supplies 15 million cubic metres of healthy drinking water to people annually while it manages a system that drains and disposes of 300 million cubic metres of wastewater and rainwater. It employs more than 1800 professionals in order to ensure that the services provided to municipalities are always of high quality and meet the requirements of municipalities.

The waste incineration plant of Veolia located in Dorog is one of the largest plants of this kind in Hungary, the plant primarily focuses on the complex disposal of hazardous wastes, and the destruction of products and goods seized by the customs services, however, the services offered by the plant also include the pre-treatment and recycling of different types of waste. The Dorog incineration plant currently employs 80 people, and it can incinerate up to 35,000 tons of waste in a year on average. The modernization of the incineration plant and developments enhancing the protection of environment are considered by Veolia to be of utmost importance which is why it spent HUF 300 million on them in recent years.

Energy management Software requirements

• •  Collect data from hot and cold water, steam, electrical, gas meters
• •  Collection of measurement data of more sites in one system (centralized energy management) – application of integrated energy contracts
• •  Information to be stored in one location and shared across the organisation
• •  Connection to 3rd party systems (ERP, SCADA, OPC servers, external databases)
• •  Manual entry (energy costs, cost allocation data, etc.)
• •  Import and export functions (Excel or CSV files)
• •  Real-time Monitoring of consumption and subscribed-power optimization
• •  Reduce peak demand and power factor penalties
• •  Monitor and calculate applied energy performance
• •  Quick report building web and desktop environments
• •  Schedule report creation for management site
• •  Information can be accessed by web browser interface
• •  Multi-User and Security Access Level Management
• •  Defining energy consumption per cost allocation places
• •  Analysis of the data by applying mathematical and statistical methods
• •  Forecasting calculation
• •  Support customization for Veolia style (colors, fonts, logo, report formats, etc.)

From the customer’s side the following reasons were highlighted for choosing AVReporter over others

• •  „AVReporter Energy Management Software can connect to the field devices directly”
• •  „It is available both Desktop and WEB” – when handling big data and integrating it into excel using the desktop version is a lot more suitable
• •  „AVR is an open software, even the end-user has the option to create individual calculations- the BI module can be handled by end-users with average technical knowledge
• •  „More favourable licencing construction” – more modular structure and options for extension, in the case of eSight a separate licence fee needs to be paid for each individual calculation.
• •  „The individualisation of AVReporter easier and more economical”
• •  Pricing: „Both software solution fall into the same price range”

Few weeks ago, this site was visited by a VEOLIA energy manager from the Middle East exploring multi-site opportunities, one of AVReporterv4.0's specific streghts