University of Pennsylvania
See how PECO worked with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania to increase energy efficiency.
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are saving money by improving their energy efficiency with PECO.
Patient Comfort
Simple upgrades can enable better climate control and indoor air quality in your facilities.
Savings
By controlling and reducing energy costs, you can free up capital for patient care investments.
Safety
Drive safety and security inside and outside your facilities—protecting your employees, patients, and visitors.
Reliability
Increase the uptime of your systems by extending the lifespan of your equipment.
Reputation
Enhance your brand reputation as a committed sustainability leader.
Appeal
Improve employee retention and talent acquisition for medical staff seeking careers with sustainability-minded organizations.
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Your journey to increased energy efficiency starts here. As you progress through these tiers, you’ll discover even more ways to build a healthy bottom line while streamlining your operations.
Tier 1
Savings Starter
Basic energy efficiency projects can make a big difference for hospitals and healthcare facilities. PECO can provide a complimentary energy report to show you how to upgrade your equipment and build a healthier bottom line. Then, choose from instant lighting discounts and financial incentives for:
Improve patient well-being and staff performance by installing LED bulbs in high-bay and low-bay fixtures, troffers, track lighting, tube lamps, wall-mount fixtures, and exit signage.
Illuminate spaces such as entryways, parking garages, and walkways with LEDs in pole/arm-mounted lights, canopy fixtures, floodlights, wallpacks, landscape fixtures, and more.
Lighting, heating, and cooling account for more than half of the energy use for many healthcare organizations. Adjust lighting and temperature automatically in hospital wings, corridors, and operating rooms using occupancy sensors, dimmers, photosensors, and programmable thermostats.
A hospital that cuts annual energy costs by $350,000 by installing LED lighting can recoup the cost of a new MRI machine in under three years.
Tier 2
Savings Leader
Building on your progress, you can increase your energy savings with more advanced energy efficiency upgrades. Take advantage of financial incentives from PECO to make improvements like these:
Maintain precise temperatures and optimize air exchange rates with VSDs that manage demand fluctuations, minimize costs, and reduce stress on critical HVAC equipment, vacuum pumps, and large fans.
Make cafeteria operations more efficient by installing ENERGY STAR® freezers, refrigerators, fryers, holding cabinets and ovens, and by adding VSDs to kitchen exhaust fans.
Ensure that -80°C freezers for sample or vaccine storage meet or exceed ENERGY STAR® efficiency requirements (rated as consuming less than 0.55 kWh/day/cubic foot).
Installing a VSD on a 75-kW motor in continuous duty can save nearly $20,000 per year on one application. That’s enough to buy up to three high-resolution EKG machines.
Tier 3
Savings Champion
At this stage, you’re creating a blueprint for maximum energy efficiency. Couple the improvements you made as a Savings Leader with the best financial incentives from PECO, and consider these possibilities:
Improve air quality, control temperatures and humidity, minimize noise, save space, and make repairs easier.
Conduct gas and fluid leak detection and power ventilators, incubators, anesthesia equipment, and surgical tools with medical-grade air.
Harness byproduct heat from electric generation for use as an energy source.
A medical facility generating onsite power with a 2 MW gas turbine cogeneration system can average over $400,000 in annual savings. That amount can fund the purchase of up to 16 hospital-grade ventilators.
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See how PECO worked with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania to increase energy efficiency.
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