Nottingham University NHS Hospitals Trust joins forces with E.ON to deliver a new heating and cooling system for one of the trust’s centres, which could cut C02 by around 30% a year.
The developments will include a new £15 million energy centre to provide low carbon heating and cooling to the trust’s Queen’s Medical Centre.
The updates will include a geothermal heating and cooling system as well as energy saving windows and smarter building controls; while the new system will draw on four heat pumps and 64 boreholes.
The project, which is expected to cost a total of £64 million is expected to cut the centre’s carbon emissions by 10,000 tonnes of C02 (30%), with this increasing to up to 43% once the current gas fired heating system is decommissioned.
The project is the largest recipient of funding from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s decarbonisation scheme.
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“This partnership demonstrates our significant commitment to environmental sustainability and offers a creative solution to meeting our energy needs and tackling climate change, while at the same time improving patient and staff comfort by allowing us to better manage temperatures within our buildings,” said Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust chief executive Anthony May.
“Innovative projects like these will play a hugely important role in helping us meet our ambitious goal of achieving a net zero carbon operation for heating and cooling system emissions by 2040.”
E.ON UK chief executive Chris Norbury added: “Tackling the environmental impact of heating, especially in densely populated areas is key to meeting the UK’s net zero targets.”
“Part of that urgent challenge is re-imagining how energy is provided to homes, businesses and cities to explore what can be done to take action and reduce carbon on a large scale.”
“We’ve provided a source of heating and cooling to the QMC for many decades with an E.ON energy site in the grounds of the hospital.”
“I’m proud Nottingham University Hospitals are trusting us to build on our successful relationship with this project, clearly demonstrating how working towards net zero can also have a direct benefit for the people who work, visit and stay at the hospital”.
