Dalkia has marked its 75th anniversary of providing energy to the healthcare sector with a 15-year, £5.4 million contract win at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield that will see the Hospital’s energy plant upgraded.
With a new CHP unit that Dalkia says will account for a CO2 cut of 2,650 tonnes, and a yearly £290,000 utility cost saving.
A 600-bed acute and general hospital, Good Hope Hospital had a 35-year-old energy centre, and required a new facility to improve its carbon and energy performance; Dalkia offered a self-funding solution ‘with guaranteed performance over the contract term’.
The installation comprises a 1,160 kWe CHP plant, a 5 tonne/hour waste heat combination boiler, a CHP heat recovery system, and associated infrastructure. Annually, the CHP engine unit will provide 9,400 MW/h of electricity, and 9,100 MW/h of heat, using natural gas as a primary fuel source. The heat produced as a result of the electrical generation is recovered and conducted to the new waste heat boiler to produce steam and low temperature hot water for heating and domestic hot water top-ups. While most of the electric and thermal energy goes to the Hospital’s facilities, any surplus can be exported to the National Grid.
