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Welsh Health Estates

03/06/2010

The Central Energy Fund (CEF) was launched in 2005 and provided over £3 million of funding to the NHS in Wales to invest in low to medium cost energy efficiency initiatives and low carbon technologies.

Over the three years of the programme, some 149 individual schemes were supported. Together these projects identified potential annual carbon savings of 13,400 tonnes.

The range of energy efficiency measures funded to date through the CEF have included:

installation of low energy external LED lighting in hospital car parks;
replacement burners on existing gas boiler plant to improve efficiency of boilers;
improvements to insulation to reduce energy losses;
installation of improved internal lighting controls such as light sensors and movement sensors together with more efficient lighting installations;
installation of highly efficient condensing boilers to replace existing inefficient boilers and helping to reduce both carbon emissions and costs; and
installation of highly efficient variable speed drive pump motors.

Welsh Health Estates and the Carbon Trust in Wales have jointly commissioned a post-project evaluation of the CEF. That evaluation will contain further details of the overall benefits of the programme of work that the fund has supported.

Contact Name: Eric Thomas
Contact Role: Director - Welsh Health Estates
Contact Telephone: 029 20315500
Contact Email: Eric.Thomas@wales.nhs.uk
Contact Address: Welsh Health Estates
PO Box 182
Bevan House
24-30 Lambourne Crescent
Llanishen
Cardiff
CF14 5GS
Website: http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/home.cfm?OrgID=254

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The NHS Central Energy Fund - Welsh Health Estates