Summary
The project "Innovative systems for energy efficiency in the Liguria hospital sector" aims at studying and implementing new forms of management and innovative technologies (thermal insulation, cogeneration, solar roof) that could allow a reduction and a rationalization of the energy consumption in the hospital system of Liguria Region, in Italy. The study is organised into three main phases, which include the drawing up of guidelines for energy efficiency in the hospital sector (adopted by the Regional Administration in date 18/09/2002), a pilot action in a Ligurian ASL (local health enterprise) aimed at carrying out an energy audit of the structure, and the operative plan for the creation of a pilot ESCo and Consortia for electrical energy purchase in the liberalised market. The project, that lasts 18 months (June 2001- February 2003), is financed by the Liguria Region Administration.
Results
The potential for energy saving obtainable from the correct and systematic application of the guidelines can reach and even pass 15%, thereby bringing a cost saving of over 3.4 million euro.
Recently A.R.E. has set up the Ligurian Energy Consortium, whose current members are public bodies (Regione Liguria, ASL 3 and 4) and a certain number of hospitals, reaching more than up to more than 25 GWh. The saving envisaged for the last three months of 2002 get to more than 50,000€ while the 2003 envisaged saving is 200,000 €. In the following months the consortium will be extended to a provincial and regional level, with a saving on the electricity bill of somewhere around 10%.
The implementation of the proposed interventions in the ASL 4 will lead to a reduction in energy consumption of about 4,638 MWh/year. Energy produced by renewables in ASL 4 is from thermal solar (100 sqm.): 56 MWh/year and from photovoltaic system 20 kW: 78 MW/year. The reduction in CO2 emissions: 1.300 tons/year.
The economic benefits are 171.220 €/year, and the project itself allowed to increase the personnel of A.R.E. Liguria of 3 people. The correct application of the guidelines and the launch of the ESCo in the ASL 4 should lead to the creation of other work placements (about 10).
A.R.E. made the Regional Administration and hospital managements aware of the critical situation in the health sector. Moreover, it involved 2 Council Departments of the same Administration: Health and Environment. This is a very important achievement.
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