title: Energy centre's immediate impact.
abstract: A new CHP-based Energy Centre completed in 2010 at London's King's College Hospital helped the south London facility cut its overall carbon emissions by 12% in the first financial year of operation, and reduce by pounds sterling 254,000 its energy costs over the same period, reports HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie. Based on the experience gained during the first year's operation, subsequent 'fine tuning' of the plant by Dalkia--the company which designed and managed the Energy Centre's construction, and is now operating and maintaining it under a 15-year contract with the King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust--saw site CO2 emissions at the hospital reduced by 550 tonnes more in the first seven months of the 2011-2012 financial year than in the corresponding period the previous year, enabling the Trust to achieve its 374-tonne 2011-2012 carbon reduction target with five months to spare.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baillie
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D008131:London; D011210:Power Plants
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D002245:Carbon Dioxide