A utility with high electricity demand charges used EPANET Plus to model "Tank Filling" patterns. They created a control rule: "If electricity price > $0.15/kWh, slow pump to 40%." The Plus engine allowed them to run a 7-day simulation with 5-minute energy pricing data. They saved 18% on pump energy costs.
Warning: The GUI (graphical user interface) still looks like it is from 1995. That is the trade-off for free, powerful software. The power is in the engine, not the skin. epanet plus
Released officially by the EPA in 2020 (and updated subsequently), EPANET 2.2 is the reference implementation of the EPANET Plus specification. The "Plus" signifies a leap from static, single-point simulations to dynamic, scriptable, and integrated modeling. A utility with high electricity demand charges used
EPANET Plus is designed to integrate with . The Toolkit API allows external code to modify a running simulation on the fly. For example: Warning: The GUI (graphical user interface) still looks
You already have it. Almost all major commercial hydraulic solvers have now integrated the EPANET Plus 2.2 engine or its equivalent methods.