SUSTAINABILITY •£46 million Lighting Fund secured and being delivered through 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.
•64 applications funded, with a total financial commitment of £46 million and projected annual savings of £15.2 million and > 33,000 tonnes of CO2
.
•Savings opportunity from LED lighting = £135 million and 316,261 t/CO2 Midlands & East
London
n Total currently LED n NEEF LED n Remaining opportunity LED
6 £4.1 m £150 k £1.5 m
Specialist 12%
tonnes 4k North 9% years 2.9
Mental Health 23%
Acute 35%
Ambulance Community 10% 19%
19 £18.5 m £693 k 15 £11.1 m £2 m 76.68% tonnes 9k 26% years 3.6 8.32% South 24 £11.9 m £875 k £3.8 m 15% .
£5.6 m
tonnes 12k
41%
years 3.2 Figure 3: £46 million invested in LED lighting.
“These kinds of things will be really fundamental.”
A ‘suite of objectives’
Among the ‘suite of objectives’ from the NHSE/NHSI Estates & Facilities team designed to reduce the carbon emissions from the energy the NHS buys and uses, the Professor explained, would be: n ‘a focus’ on buying 100% renewable electricity – which could cut the service in England’s building emissions by 697,742 tonnes of CO.
n Decarbonising heating and cooling systems, and looking at new technologies such as heat pumps. (Professor Daly said on this: “CHP will still form a massive part of what we do, but we will look for CHP plant to offer really high efficiency, and probably for conversion to a different fuel source, such as hydrogen.”) Her team would also be writing some standard specifications to assist with the procurement of such systems.
n Increasing the use and implementation of onsite renewables, such as solar and wind power.
n Driving ‘100 coverage’ of LED lighting.
She added “We have recently conducted a trial with an estates and facilities consultancy, Estate Strategy Group (ESG), using its Brite Check tool. (ESG describes Brite Check as ‘a web-based tool that can quickly assess the feasibility of installing renewable energy technologies on a building or site – by comprehensively modelling the potential energy, cost, and carbon savings of each technology, and the capital investment
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required’). The ‘tool’ had already proven useful on two NHS sites, where it had helped healthcare provider organisations identify that there was no clear benefit to installation, but also, importantly, where there was no good opportunity for deployment of renewables, ‘saving the Trusts much in the way of time and resource’.
Workforce’s importance “Finally,” Professor Daly said, “our workforce, and your Estates & Facilities teams, are core to all of this activity on sustainability. We need to get every single person in every Trust understanding what Net Zero Carbon is, and how we as an NHS Estates & Facilities team are proactively driving everything we do through our operations to benefit the future.”
She explained that through a ‘Sustainability Academy’, established in 2018, the ‘central’ Estates & Facilities team had already trained 78 people on a City & Guilds Energy Management and Sustainability Principles course. The same personnel had also undertaken HM Treasury ‘Better Business Case’ training, JCT Training, and Energy Management Verification training. She added: “We are looking to extend this training out in the future, and have just established a partnership with IEMA (the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment), through which NHSE/NHSI have become corporate members, meaning that NHS personnel can all benefit from a reduced level of costs.” The speaker continued: “Some of the IEMA courses – especially for certification
at Foundation and Practitioner level – normally cost around £2,000-£3,000 a time. However, by self-delivering training – using our resource – and indeed training some of our own NHS personnel to become trainers, we can deliver such courses for around £200.”
Open for applications
Prof. Daly explained that the NHSE / NHSI Estates & Facilities team would soon be open to applications, having secured funding for seven Foundation certificates – one for each region, and the same number of Practitioner certificates, and also for 30 Sustainability Awareness courses (general and managerial) for the whole of England. She said: “We are going to be opening up the application process for this shortly, and hope this will be the start of something really transformative in NHS estates, enhancing participants’ understanding and grasp for taking the Net Zero Carbon agenda forward.” The speaker explained that her team was also working with the Care Quality Commission to try to ‘embed some of these principles’ in its Use of Resources Framework. Prof. Daly elaborated: “The CQC is currently re-formulating its Use of Resources Framework, and we are asking for sustainability to be front and centre; there is a real appetite for this.” She concluded by adding: “We are also working with the CQC and IEMA to create a Board Education Pack so that both executive and non-executive directors really understand the importance of this; we hope the pack will be available by the middle to the latter part of next year.”
£4 m
tonnes 8k
24%
years 3.0
hej
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