We've just begun a new 15 year energy efficiency partnership with Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre (QMC), one of the largest NHS hospital's in the UK. We'll be helping them reach their target of achieving net zero by 2030 through installing a range of energy saving technologies, from a zero-carbon geo-thermal heating and cooling system to energy saving windows and state of the art building controls, we're delivering an end to end multi solution project that will benefit the hospital and its patients for years to come, whilst improving local air quality by reducing harmful nitrogen oxide emissions.

This QMC project has been supported by funding from Phase 3 of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS). This is a funding scheme run by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and delivered by Salix Finance. The Carbon and Energy Fund (CEF) facilitated the programme and is responsible for major energy infrastructure upgrades within the NHS. 

In addition to the hospital's current combined heat and power (CHP) plant, the new heat pumps, boreholes, and heat recovery system at the QMC give the facility a more environmentally friendly source of heating, cooling and energy.

The heat pumps use electricity to draw heat from the ground through the 64 boreholes drilled beneath the hospital site, they can also use the air outside to generate heat. Excess heat can be piped down into boreholes and stored or preserved for use at a later date. Any leftover heat can be recycled by the heat pumps. This lowers the demand for fossil fuels and in turn reduces energy costs for the hospital trust.