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Dry Cooler
Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust (GHT): Energy Management Pilot
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Dave Honeyman
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Fairbrook Associates
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Pilot undertaken to address strategic issues associated with NHS Wales achieving reduction in primary energy of 15% by 2010. This was a partnership approach between WHE and the Carbon Trust in Wales. Gwent Healthcare Trust (GHT) was selected as a representative Trust within Wales.
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Overview
Objectives to identify:
· Practical steps required to deliver energy efficiency in NHS Trusts
· How Carbon Trust’s resources can be applied to NHS Wales
· How WHR can help overcome implementation barriers & how best practice can be rolled out.
For this to be successful:
- An internal “Champion” at a senior level is essential in order to effectively promote the case for a more strategic approach to energy and carbon saving
- The energy strategy must be embedded into the Trust’s overall estate strategy, which the Trust Board already has a duty to deliver.
The data from the pilot project determined that achieving the 2010 target would lead to annual energy savings across the main hospitals within the Welsh NHS worth £2.2m per year (assuming no increases in fuel prices, which is unlikely), equivalent to an annual emissions reduction of over 28,000 tonnes CO2. The data also indicated that for GHT an investment requirement of £117/tCO2 would be required in order to hit its target, based on a mixture of energy saving investments and enhanced energy management procedures. Taking GHT, as being representative sample of the Welsh trusts as a whole, in terms of energy performance and the range of buildings in its estate, this would imply a capital investment requirement of around £3.3m to hit the all-Wales energy saving target.
The project found that a strategic approach to energy efficiency in the NHS trusts in Wales would be most effective if implemented as a partnership between WHE and the trusts, supported by the Welsh Assembly Government and the Carbon Trust. At the trust level, it found that, in order to unlock the full technical potential for energy efficiency, it is necessary to adopt a whole-trust approach, where the culture and practice of energy efficiency is embedded in wider trust functions - in addition to the estates department, where responsibility for energy management lies - including finance and procurement, staff training/education, and performance management, underpinned by senior management commitment to drive the process forward.
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The learning is being rolled out across NHS Wales, supported by the snappily titled: Energy Efficiency Strategy Guidance and Implementation Support Pack for NHS Trusts in Wales, produced by Energy for Sustainable Development Ltd.
The pilot sat within the context of broader Environmental Management policies and strategies within Welsh Health Estates.
Key features
consumption
energy
health
Key data
Completion Date: 01/01/2010
Project Team: The Carbon Trust Wales/GHT
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Local Authority: Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust
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