ENERGY AND CARBON REDUCTION
Independent review There is a need for NHS clients to have energy and cost-saving initiatives independently verified. A detailed qualitative and quantitative assessment of all the methodologies and calculations used to generate a savings figure is essential if an NHS Trust is to truly understand performance. It typically should involve a full review of all relevant contractual documentation, datasets, and analytical processes. Independent advice about how the verification process should operate prior to tender can also be helpful. This independent verification is important to provide greater certainty and transparency. This will be important for robust GHG reporting for hospitals, and understanding at a granular detail where the energy savings or increases are happening. In the drive to deliver new heating schemes across the NHS there must be adequate time for due diligence in the procurement phase to assess contractors and technologies, as well as close performance monitoring and guarantees. Crucially, setting up projects for environmental and financial success will require new contracts which provide a performance guarantee and enshrine GHG emissions-related delivery and system availability.
Nick Keegan
Nick Keegan, director, EEVS, is an expert in building energy efficiency and energy performance contracting (EPC). His role at EEVS focuses on working with procuring authorities, funders, and energy service companies to develop, operate, and verify, robust measurement and verification processes and contractual terms to govern the performance guarantees within EPCs.
As well as working with several NHS Trusts, local authorities, and universities, he leads EEVS’s performance assurance services to Vodafone focused on audit of its FM-delivered energy optimisation programme that has achieved 100 GWh
of energy savings in its first three years. He was involved in the development of the Scottish Government’s NDEE performance contracting framework, and has delivered independent performance measurement services for over £15 m of projects procured under the scheme to date. At a wider market level, he led UK input into two European Commission-funded market research and development projects – Transparense and QualitEE – that aimed to increase trust in energy efficiency services through standards and quality assurance. A Certified Measurement & Verification Professional (CMVP) and Certified Energy Manager (CEMI), Nick Keegan has worked on commercial energy-saving projects since 2007. He studied Physics at Imperial College, London, including Masters-level research in organic solar cells at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany. He acts as chair of the Energy Services Contracting Group at the Energy Services & Technology Association, and is a professional Member of the Energy Institute (MEI).
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