A new energy centre which will save more than £600,000 and almost halve carbon emissions every year is being installed at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton. 

The combined heat and power plant, which will make the hospital more energy efficient, will be developed and operated by MITIE’s Asset Management business. The economic savings to the hospital are equivalent to hiring 18 new nurses a year. 

The plant, which will replace the hospital’s ageing steam energy system, uses a gas engine to generate heat and power, reducing the need to buy energy from the grid. 

MITIE, which is the preferred bidder for the project, has also recently been accepted as a partner in the NHS Carbon and Energy Fund. This enables Trusts to upgrade their energy infrastructure to save energy, carbon and money by providing the funding, legal and technical expertise. MITIE is already working with the Royal Free hospital in Hampstead to improve their energy provision. 

Mike Tivey, managing director of MITIE’s Asset Management Division, said: “This project highlights the huge benefits of generating your own energy – meaning the Royal Marsden can achieve significant economic savings, cut carbon emissions and meet and exceed their NHS carbon targets.” 

The new plant, which will be installed by summer 2012, will also produce excess energy which could be used to supply neighbouring amenities on the hospital site.

Factbox

• 42 per cent of CO2 savings a year created by the new energy efficient plant. This represents 3655 tonnes of CO2 savings per year. 
• More than £600,000 guaranteed saving for the Royal Marsden a year
• Cash savings could potentially provide for 18 new nurses salaries a year 
• The new energy plant will be up and running by Summer 2012 

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Notes for editors

What is MITIE?
We’re the strategic outsourcing company. What does that mean in practice? We manage facilities, properties and assets for our clients across the UK and beyond.

We work with our clients in three ways; some take full advantage of our whole range of expertise, others may only need one aspect of what we do:

Strategy and consultancy
+ Facilities and project management
+ Service delivery

Our strategic input can add value at the highest level by helping clients to manage their assets, while our practical management expertise can save customers money and reduce their carbon emissions. We work with a vast number of clients in every industry across both the public and private sectors and deliver the broadest range of services that can be found in one place: from integrated facilities management to engineering maintenance to lifecycle energy management and much more.

There’s a lot more to MITIE than you probably think. We’re a big company with big ambitions – a leading FTSE 250 support services business, with more than 61,000 people, revenues in excess of £1.9bn, and a reputation for being the best.

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