30 January 2020
Improving heating at Bristol’s city centre hospitals
Work is taking place to create a new
£10.8million heating and energy system which will contribute
towards the Trust's carbon emission reductions.
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation
Trust (UH Bristol) is replacing its existing 1 megawatt (MW)
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) engine with a larger 3.36MW CHP and
district heating facility which will enable the organisation to
efficiently generate more low carbon electricity and heat.
This will reduce the Trust's need to import grid
electricity. The district heating also replaces steam, reducing
heat losses from the heat network.
In October UH Bristol set ambitious goals to
become carbon neutral by 2030.
Sam Willitts, energy and sustainability manager
at UH Bristol, said: "This scheme will support these targets by
reducing emissions, reducing heat losses, and ensuring a resilient
and secure energy supply for our hospitals.
"We're committed to playing our part and leading
by example to help protect the environment and this is just one of
the ways we're taking action.
"We're also improving our lighting, reducing car
journeys via lift-share, walking and cycle to work schemes for
staff and reducing single use plastics where we can on our wards,
operating theatres and catering. These are just some of the
sustainability initiatives under way at the Trust."
Construction work for the scheme began this
month (January 2020) and is due to be completed by the end of
September 2020.
Vital Energi, who will be carrying out the works, will work
closely with the Trust to ensure any disruption is kept to a
minimum during construction.
If you have any questions about the CHP project please call 0117
342 4444.
Find out more about sustainability at UH Bristol and some of the
other projects under way or planned at /about-us/sustainable-development/
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