COMBINED HEAT & POWER
TAKING CARE OF YOUR CHP NEEDS
The installation of a low noise CHP unit is expected to save a care home up to £15,600 per year in electricity costs
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un by Barchester Healthcare, Snowdrop Place care home in Botley, Southampton, is
designed specifically to support people living with dementia and those who require residential care. The care home has a wide range of facilities, including a cinema, an activities café, a salon and four spa bathrooms. Recently, Helec – an M&E specialist in the
specification, design and installation of Combined Heat and Power systems (CHP) within pre- packaged plant room solutions – has supplied and commissioned an Energimizer EM16NG Combined Heat & Power (CHP) unit for the care home. Work began in May 2020, when the CHP unit
was delivered to site, however the Coronavirus pandemic delayed the build and it was eventually commissioned in December 2020. Helec supplied and commissioned the CHP in the plant room on behalf of a contractor. As this is an upper floor plant room, the CHP
had to be extra quiet, so the acoustic insulation provides a sound pressure level (SPL) for this CHP at 46 dB(A), measured at 1m distance – quieter than an American style double door fridge. Following the installation, Snowdrop Place expects to save c. 104,000kWh of electricity per
year, which could reduce the care home’s electricity bill by as much as £15,600 per year. “We were delighted to support the site
installation team in order to deliver this efficient 16 kWe CHP unit, which will contribute well to help reduce the running costs at Snowdrop Place,” commented Jonathan Passmore, UK technical sales Manager at Helec.
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www.helec.co.uk
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