Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and Ameresco Announce Energy Savings Project
May 16 2019 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Wexham Park Hospital will receive highly
efficient, reliable power and over £700,000 in annual energy
savings while significantly reducing the hospital’s carbon
emissions
Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE:AMRC), a leading energy efficiency and
renewable energy company, and Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
today announced the completion of a £7.5 million energy
infrastructure and maintenance contract for Wexham Park Hospital, a
588-bed, acute care hospital serving Slough and the surrounding
area of Berkshire. It is one of the three acute hospitals in the
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
“Our focus is always to ensure the needs of our patients come
first, and this project definitely will afford greater comfort,”
said Colin Mapperley, Director of Estates & Facilities, Frimley
Health NHS Foundation Trust. “The energy infrastructure project
with Ameresco provides a significantly more reliable and efficient
heat and hot water system for the entire hospital and allows us to
accommodate the expansion plans currently underway. In addition,
the project development scheme was specifically designed to make
sure we didn’t have any disruptions in our day-to-day delivery of
patient services during implementation of the project.”
Wexham Park Hospital financed its project with a Salix loan,
with outcomes guaranteed through an energy savings performance
contract (ESPC), which set a maximum implementation cost and
guarantees energy cost savings. Under the ESPC, Ameresco replaced
the hospital’s existing 1960s-era steam boilers and distribution
system with a high efficiency gas fired 1.5 MWe Combined Heat and
Power (CHP) plant. This includes installation of three 2.5 MWth
dual-fuel low temperature hot water boilers and extensive LTHW
distribution pipework network across the whole site connecting over
30 individual plantrooms directly to the energy centre.
Construction was completed within 12 months and the project became
operational in December 2018.
The CHP plant displaces 90 percent of grid electricity and
provides 75 percent of the hospital’s total heat requirement.
Supported by a 15-year operations and maintenance (O&M)
contract, Ameresco will deliver the hospital £700,000 in annual
energy savings over the contract term. The project is expected to
reduce carbon emissions by 1,621 tonnes of CO2 per annum, and new
steam generators work toward meeting their autoclave sterilization
requirements.
“We are delighted to partner with Frimley Health NHS Foundation
Trust,” stated Britta MacIntosh, Ameresco’s Vice President of UK
operations. “Our goal has been to deliver a project that will
provide the maximum benefit and value to the hospital and its
patients. We are honoured to support the Trust’s efforts to reduce
costs and improve efficiency at this vital service facility.”
About Wexham Park Hospital
Wexham Park Hospital is a large NHS hospital which provides
emergency, trauma and orthopaedic surgery, plastic and
reconstructive surgery, paediatric, coronary care and maternity
services, amongst others, in Wexham, Berkshire, United Kingdom. For
more information visit https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/.
About Ameresco, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading
independent provider of comprehensive services, energy efficiency,
infrastructure upgrades, asset sustainability and renewable energy
solutions for businesses and organizations throughout North America
and Europe. Ameresco’s sustainability services include upgrades to
a facility’s energy infrastructure and the development,
construction and operation of renewable energy plants. Ameresco has
successfully completed energy saving, environmentally responsible
projects with Federal, state and local governments, healthcare and
educational institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and
industrial customers. With its corporate headquarters in
Framingham, MA, Ameresco has more than 1,000 employees providing
local expertise in the United States, Canada, and the United
Kingdom. For more information, www.ameresco.com.
The announcement of a customer’s entry into, or completion of, a
project contract is not necessarily indicative of the timing or
amount of revenue from such contract, of the company’s overall
revenue for any particular period or of trends in the company’s
overall total construction backlog. This project was reported in
contracted backlog as of March 31, 2019.
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