Gloucester Citizen

Gloucestershire hospitals to save 500,000 pounds a year with green efforts

Carbon emissions will also be cut by 1,789 tons a year, a reduction of 30 percent


Hospitals in Gloucestershire, UK, will save more than £500,000 each year when new sustainability measures take effect, according to an article on the Gloucester Citizen website.

More than 600 light bulbs have been replaced by energy-saving alternatives at the hospitals. And other new high-tech measures should help decrease wastage and consumption on site.

The £3.1 million project is expected to achieve a savings of £577,000 a year, or a 40 percent reduction on current energy bills and operating costs. Carbon emissions will also be cut by 1,789 tons a year, a reduction of 30 percent. 

The project is being partially funded by a £960,000 grant from the Department of Health with the remainder of capital provided by Vital Energi to be repaid over the contract term, the article said.

“This energy plan will allow the hospital to reduce energy usage, lower carbon emissions and create a more resilient energy and heating infrastructure and those benefits will be felt for the next 18 years,” Ted Rogers, associate director of capital and development at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said in the article.

Read the article.

 

 



September 12, 2014


Topic Area: Energy and Power


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