Energy Efficiency
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12 March 2014
Shaun Kingsbury, Chief Executive of the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB), has invited NHS Chief Executives, Finance and Estate Directors to learn about the programme at its first NHS Energy Efficiency Forum.
The Forum will take place at Birmingham's Aston University on Wednesday 2 April and will be followed up with a separate event in Edinburgh in the coming weeks.
Designed to help Trusts and Health Boards bolster their budgets by implementing energy efficiency measures, senior representatives from GIB and the NHS will outline the opportunities available to reduce energy usage and associated costs, improve energy services and meet energy reduction targets.
The UK NHS deals with more than one million patients every 36 hours working across some 2,300 hospitals. Due to its size and activities, the NHS is a heavy user of energy.
Gregor Paterson-Jones
UK Green Investment Bank Managing Director for Energy Efficiency
GIB has already backed a number of NHS energy efficiency programmes including the UK's largest energy efficiency retrofit at a hospital. Projects can include combined heat and power plants, boilers, building retrofits, lighting and energy reduction technologies for production processes, among others.
As well as Shaun Kingsbury and Gregor Paterson-Jones, MD of Energy Efficiency at GIB, guest speakers at the NHS Energy Efficiency Forum include Richard Howe, former Estates Director, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Allan Vlah, Fund Manager, Aviva.
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The NHS Energy Efficiency Forum will take place on between 10.00am - 1.00pm on Wednesday 2 April 2014. The venue is the Conference Aston Meeting Suites, Aston University, The Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET. This is a free event.