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Energy Saving Advice for Healthcare Services & Practitioners

Dedicated tips and advice on saving energy and money on your energy bills within healthcare services & practitioners’ buildings, all whilst helping to keep your staff, patients and visitors happy and healthy…

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How to save money on healthcare service’s energy bills

Cost-effective energy saving is to become an essential part of business and can assist in saving money as well as reducing environmental impact. Consumers demand it, the government encourages it and you should do it for both your health practices and patients welfare. Ultimately, energy-efficient buildings provide better indoor conditions for patients and staff.

4 Facts about energy in the health sector

  1. Energy is one of the biggest overheads
  2. Private consumers are showing a preference for more environmentally friendly organisations
  3. Creating energy saving can lead to lower costs and an increase in your customer base
  4. Environmental and energy-saving project stories are a hot topic with the press. Gain recognition for your business by becoming environmentally friendly

Where do you use most of your energy in your buildings?

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Identifying where your energy is being used can be a key factor in discovering ways to save it.

The image (above) shows the typical energy consumption of a hospital. It highlights where these organisations are spending the money on their energy.

It also helps healthcare practitioners to pinpoint where energy-saving tactics need to be implemented to achieve savings.

Of course, not every Healthcare organisation will have the same energy usage, but it does go some way to showing just how far and wide a building’s energy usage can stretch.

Knowing and understanding this can go some way to helping you pinpoint weak areas of your own properties where energy savings could be made.

How to cut back on energy usage in healthcare properties

Saving money on your healthcare services & practitioners’ building’s energy bills is possible by making some small changes to your business. Hopefully, our tips will help give you some inspiration for making savings within your business and potentially seeing where else you could save even more.

1. Review Your Temperature Controls

Lowering your air conditioning by just 1C in the summer could reduce your energy bills by up to 8% Reducing your heating by 1C could save you over £100 per year.

Likewise, if you were to lower the heating by just 1C over the winter, you may not even notice the difference, but you could achieve similar savings in the winter too.

2. Save Energy and Money on Lighting

By ensuring your lights are turned off overnight when not in use, you could potentially make around £1000 per year in savings.

Where possible, you should also look into replacing your old bulbs for LED lighting. These modern bulbs can help you to achieve additional savings as they are far more efficient than older, more conventional bulbs.

3. Check Your Healthcare Energy Bills

If it’s been a while since you last looked at your energy bills, now is the time to take a look at them again.

The Competition Markets Authority has estimated that there are over 1.3 million businesses that are overpaying on their energy contracts. As a result, these businesses are overpaying the energy companies to the tune of approximately £500 million each year! A huge sum of money we’re sure you’ll agree.

This overspending can be due to a number of reasons, including selecting inappropriate tariffs or allowing your business to go out of contract – which results in you being placed onto more costly tariffs.

At Exchange Utility, we’re working to combat unnecessarily high energy costs for businesses in every sector, including Healthcare Services, by providing a business energy comparison service.

No matter whether your business operates in multiple different industries or you’re just interested to see what other helpful energy savings tips our team have been able to come up with. Take a look at our other business energy-saving advice for more tips and inspiration to use within your business.

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Business energy contract due to renew? Call us on 0800 9777 000 or fill in our energy quote form to see how much you could save…