The ‘economic, social, and environmental benefits of sustainable decentralised energy’ will be showcased by MITIE’s Asset Management division.
Healthcare estates managers will be able to ‘learn more about developing or upgrading low carbon on-site energy infrastructure’. Via ‘basic modelling’, MITIE says it can identify the potential for ‘innovative’ cost and carbon savings for each site, and opportunities for distributing surplus energy to the local community. The company said: “MITIE can provide upfront funding, so hospitals can divert their own capital resource back into patient care. Our holistic approach means we fund, develop, and operate, energy centres or new infrastructure.” MITIE recently developed the energy centre at London’s Royal Free Hospital, which is reportedly saving around £850,000 a year, and reducing the hospital’s annual carbon footprint by 4,500 tonnes. Surplus heat will be used by Camden Council to provide heating and hot water to around 1,500 residents. The company is also the preferred bidder to develop an energy centre at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, which should cut carbon emissions there ‘by almost half’.
