Electricity’s Water Meter
Aquadrio prices the water behind every hour of electricity, down to the building that used it.
Ford Field, Sept. 30, 11 PM ET
SEAL
ARITHMETIC
1Gridwater
2In CCF
3Valued at Detroit’s Water Rate
4By Basin
SEALED RECORD
What Aquadrio Does
Aquadrio monitors the electric grid for water consumption. Our meter collects all of the data an hour of electricity carries with it, calculates the water loss, and translates that loss into dollars for the building that used it. We keep this data in a recomputable, sealed record for every hour that a grid produces.
Each record carries an hour’s energy mixture, the gallons used to produce it, and the value of those gallons in order to provide companies, infrastructure operators, and policymakers with accurate information. Aquadrio’s ledger is the only one of its kind.
| Fuel | Percent of the hour's megawatt-hours | Gallons per MWh |
|---|---|---|
| Coal | 28.12 | 114.85 |
| Nuclear | 13.92 | 90.63 |
| Gas | 40.17 | 61.17 |
| Other | 1.08 | 3.24 |
| Hydro | 0.80 | 12.80 |
| Solar | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Wind | 15.89 | 0.00 |
| Basin group | Gallons per MWh | Ceiling and percent of prescription |
|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 182.99 | ceiling 87.2, 209.9 percent of prescription |
| Great Lakes | 85.70 | ceiling 62.4, 137.3 percent of prescription |
| groundwater and municipal | 14.00 | ceiling 17.2, 81.4 percent of prescription |
Gridwater
We define gridwater as the volume of water consumed during power generation for the electricity a building used.
Making electricity consumes freshwater at the power plant, upstream of every load. Aquadrio meters a building’s gridwater, and with it, all of the data that lives in an hour of electricity.
Every Hour
Every megawatt-hour consumes water at the plants that made it. The amount changes each hour with the mix of plants running, so we meter it each hour.
Every Basin
Water leaves a basin, be it the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, or an aquifer. We trace each gallon to the basin it left and report it as a percent of that basin's prescription.
Every Building
Gridwater follows the electricity to whoever used it. We price a building’s share at its own water utility’s published rate, hour by hour.
On the Record
70.3 billion
27,091
$19.8 million