ENERGY EFFICIENCY
He particularly praised the NHS Sustain- able Development Unit in this regard, and its recent ‘Route Map’ to a more sustain- able NHS – covered in detail in recent edi- tions of NHE.
Pryce added: “Changing models of care will be extremely important in cutting emis- sions – but the NHS hasn’t quite got to thinking hard about that yet.”
Working with Trusts
When The Carbon Trust does work with NHS organisations, there is no one way in which it offers support and advice, but the key is the NHS Carbon Management Programme. This is a 10-month, fi ve-step programme, requiring signifi cant time in- volvement from the appointed team leader to get results. It is supported by the Depart- ment of Energy and Climate Change, and ultimately helps trusts draw up a plan and business case for cutting emissions.
Pryce said: “Our team here at The Carbon Trust helps them do that, alongside the fl eet of accredited consultants we work with, via a wide range of methods – we use webinars, phone calls, storage areas on our website to share material and ideas, Excel baselining tools, and so on. We do also think it’s very important that we do get out and look at their physical sites and estates and work with them to help not just to give them ideas for making energy and carbon
savings, but help them do it themselves.
“They will always know their estates and operations better than we will – but we want them to look at it in a way that per- haps they haven’t before, and give them a better idea of the kind of investment need- ed, and the payback period and cost sav- ings they are likely to realise. That’s some- thing the NHS doesn’t necessarily have the in-house resources to do, and that lack of certainty about paybacks and returns is one of the things that holds back energy ef- fi ciency and carbon reduction.
“The Carbon Trust is a public good compa- ny, and we’re driven by a mission to accel- erate the move to a low-carbon economy in the UK. We’ve been doing that and intend to continue doing that, both by helping or- ganisations to manage their carbon emis- sions in a cost-effective fashion now and in the near future and helping them develop strategies to do that. We can also help to develop the kind of technologies and new ways of working that we’re all likely to need in the future to meet more ambitious car- bon reduction targets.
“Our position is very much seen as being the independent experts on carbon and energy.
“We can act as a broker, and can convene different sectors and bodies together, the public and the private together, to help to solve problems and drive energy savings.
“One particular aspect is likely to become increasingly important – because the NHS is being asked to make effi ciency savings, Trusts often don’t have the cash to ‘in- vest to save’. Increasingly, they may know they’ve got opportunities of payback in three, four or fi ve years to manage their en- ergy use, and indeed manage other areas of unnecessary expenditure as well, but they don’t have the fi nance to invest.
“Ways of getting that fi nance, cost-effec- tively, into the NHS – and it’s probably, increasingly, going to have to be private sec- tor fi nance, as the public sector money isn’t there – that’s going to become increasingly important.
“The ability of ourselves and others to de- liver expertise and support to the NHS in not only identifying and quantifying carbon reduction projects, but also on fi nancing and implementing them is going to become increasingly important, and things like En- ergy Performance Guarantees and En- ergy Performance Contracting are going to become increas- ingly important in the NHS. That’s certainly an interesting trend.”
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