FEATURE
Bupa UK Pledge to Reduce Their Footprint
Bosch Commercial and Industrial tell us more about Bupa UK’s promise to reduce total carbon emissions globally by 20%, and illustrate how easily it can be done.
For Bupa UK, the importance of health and wellbeing extends beyond its residents and staff; to caring for the environment and securing a sustainable future for its sites. As part of this, the healthcare provider invested £28.3million over 2014 and 2015, to retrofit energy efficient and renewable technologies into its nationwide property portfolio, to reduce carbon emissions and its environmental impact.
As the result of an extensive review of energy consumption and an ongoing commitment to carbon reduction, the health and social care specialist took the opportunity
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to install solar PV, LED lighting, ground and air source heat pumps and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems to further enhance the performance of many of its residential and nursing homes, offices, hospital and clinics.
With ambitious plans to reduce total carbon emissions globally by 20% by the end of the 2015 against a 2009 baseline, Bupa UK decided to collaborate with Bosch Commercial and Industrial to introduce over 200 bespoke heating systems. Each system installed at 150 locations throughout the UK comprised of a CHP module paired with condensing boilers.
Championing CHP Optimised for buildings with continuous heating and hot water requirements and high electricity usage, CHP is perfectly suited to a care home consumption pattern. The systems installed by Bosch aim to meet the baseload energy requirements within the care homes, using natural gas to generate electricity with the heat produced as a by-product then used for space and hot water heating. Each Bosch 19kWe CHP unit acts as the lead heat source, and for every 56kWh of gas input the unit creates 19kWh electricity and at least 32kWh heat (36kWh possible with condensing technology).
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