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There are significant financial savings under your feet! The question is where to focus. We are here to help and have 90+ ready to go projects to help you reduce your energy spend and carbon emissions. Our projects are organized by project cost, energy savings, CO2 emissions reduction and break-even period.
The US Department of Energy and the National Renewal Energy Lab analyzed hospital energy consumption. The top 3 functions using electricity for hospitals are: lighting (42%), cooling (14%) and ventilation/air handling (16%). If you add computers at 4%, the total is 76%! Consider adding large medical equipment and you easily get to 80%. Heating oil and natural gas usage is simple- 56% is heating air and 30% is heating water for a total of 86%.
There you have it. .. the 80/20 rule for reducing energy budgets and your carbon emissions. A quick note in translating these projects into Greenhouse Gas Protocol scopes. Scope 1 are fossil fuels burned in hospital operations – heating fuels, anesthesia gas, fleet fuels. Scope 2 is electricity. By the way, our CarbonEMR automatically calculates the renewable energy percent of your local electricity vendor.
Being green, saves green.