E.ON has begun working with Newham University Hospital in East London to improve the Hospital’s energy efficiency and reduce its carbon emissions.
Via a project part of the London Development Agency’s RE:FIT programme, which aims to reduce London’s carbon emissions by updating public buildings via ‘the most effective energy-saving measures’. E.ON has signed a six-year Energy Performance Contract with the Hospital. The project’s first phase, involving replacing the current ‘relatively old and inefficient’ air handling units (AHUs), which supply heating, cooling, and ventilation, to wards and theatres, with more energy-efficient units, should cut annual energy consumption by over 940,000 kW hours, achieving payback within seven years, and paring carbon emissions by over 3,000 tonnes.
