Energy and utilities management specialist, Dalkia, boasts over 75 years’ experience within the healthcare sector. It has helped more than 100 hospitals throughout the UK to meet carbon reduction strategies and reduce costs.
Here Derry Carr, the company’s technical manager and group gas manager, explores the viability of on-site biomass energy, and discusses the key considerations for healthcare sites seeking to make the switch.
As a ‘clean, green’ fuel source that is ideal for on-site applications, biomass promises so much for the healthcare sector. A biomass boiler not only utilises a sustainable, ‘green’ fuel source such as wood to generate energy, but, as a considerable added benefit, can also increase efficiencies and opportunities associated with local energy distribution, and open up the door to government incentives as a result of its renewable status.
Hospital buildings with a driving need to significantly reduce carbon emissions – these days, with the ongoing regulatory and moral imperatives on the NHS, particularly, to reduce carbon footprint, there are a many healthcare facilities in such position – lend themselves well to biomass. Older buildings of heavyweight construction, or which present the opportunity to integrate biomass into the construction from the outset, are also well-suited to a biomass approach.
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