Cambridge University Hospitals will save over £20m in energy costs over 25 years. The carbon savings of 25,000 tonnes will help Addenbrooke’s surpass its NHS sustainability targets by 27 per cent.
The new energy centre will use a range of energy saving technologies including biomass boilers which will burn local woodchip and waste wood.
Subject to final planning approval, MITIE will develop and operate the new facility which will provide low carbon heating, hot water and electricity to the Addenbrooke’s and Rosie hospitals and other campus partners.
St. Clair Armitage, CUH executive director for corporate development, said: “This excellent project will deliver significant economic and sustainability benefits for CUH and our partners on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The low carbon, state-of-the-art energy centre will provide us with greater energy independence and reduce the impact of rising energy prices.”
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Landmark funding package agreed for new CUH energy innovation centre
28 March 2013
A landmark funding package has been agreed for a new energy innovation centre that will cut energy costs and carbon emissions in half for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Aviva Investors and the UK Green Investment Bank are providing around £36m of funding for the energy centre on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus site - believed to be one of the largest projects of this type in the UK.