ENER-G, the sustainable energy solutions business, has launched a specialist healthcare division following its appointment to a framework of approved contractors that will deliver low carbon infrastructure improvements across the NHS Estate.
ENER-G has been selected by the NHS Shared Business Services Carbon and Energy Fund to tender for, and deliver, multi-million pound projects to overhaul low carbon supply of electricity, heating and cooling at hospitals around the UK.

The £100 million plus Carbon and Energy Fund (CEF) provides participating Trusts with specialist expertise, rapid project deployment, and capital seed funding that is recovered over a 15-year contract period through guaranteed cost savings underwritten by the appointed contractor.

Greater Manchester based ENER-G, which has delivered 65 low and zero carbon projects in the healthcare sector, has made the first of several appointments to support its new healthcare division and the management of these complex infrastructure projects. At Malvern Community Hospital ENER-G has combined ground source heat pump technology with a combined heat and power system to provide high efficiency, ultra-low carbon heating and power. Other innovative projects completed include Royal Shrewsbury and Sunderland Royal Hospitals, with major initiatives underway at Chelsea and Westminster, Salisbury and Darlington.

Derek Duffill, group managing director for ENER-G, said: 'ENER-G has already demonstrated the success of imaginative partnerships such as this in decarbonising hospitals to yield substantial environmental and cost benefits without the need for capital expenditure. We have our own manufactured combined heat and power and building controls technologies and are confident that we can supply the complete solution Trusts are seeking, helping them to gain best value and mitigate risk.

'At a time of budgetary pressures and ambitious targets on carbon reduction, ENER-G can provide proven expertise in replacing dated plant with state-of-the art low and zero carbon alternatives that place no financial burden on hospitals or UK tax-payers. This is a win-win arrangement and we look forward to helping the NHS to transform its estate.'