The advantages of Energy Performance Contracts, and some of the options available for NHS Trusts keen to embrace them to cut their energy bills and carbon emissions.
Energy Performance Contracts (EnPCs) are increasing in popularity as a way of delivering large-scale energy savings and improvements in existing buildings. An EnPC involves partnering with an Energy Service Company (ESCo), which will undertake energy-saving upgrade works and provide a guarantee on the performance, therefore supporting a robust business case
Rise in popularity
Despite their recent rise in popularity, the EnPC approach is not new, having been introduced in the US in the mid-1980s to deliver energy savings for industrial energy users. Following a period of low activity, EnPCs are now being used to facilitate energy savings in building types ranging from social housing through to the retrofit of the Empire State Building in New York City.
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