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Hospital Energy Alliance
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites healthcare organizations to join the Hospital Energy Alliance (HEA). HEA brings together leading hospitals and national associations in a strategic alliance designed to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of healthcare systems throughout the country. By leveraging access to advanced technologies emerging from the national laboratories, HEA members are creating a national forum for the industry to share evidence-based technology solutions and influence the energy performance of medical equipment and systems. Here you will find information about HEA, including its goals and Project Teams. Read the Hospital Energy Alliance fact sheet. See a list of current HEA members.
Why Hospital Energy Management?
Reducing the energy use of healthcare facilities offers many key benefits:
- Improved profitability
- Reduced impact of volatile energy costs
- Lower operations and maintenance costs
- Improved environmental performance
- Reduced carbon footprint
- Healthier healing and work environment
- Healthier communities.
DOE is undertaking an extensive hospital monitoring project to help identify opportunities for cost-effective energy savings in hospitals. Learn more.
Addressing Hospitals' Energy Challenges
Through HEA, DOE is providing the resources, tools, and strategies to identify clear pathways to cost and energy savings through efficient and renewable energy technology applications. The following fact sheets and studies offer more detailed information.
- Building Envelope Critical to High-Performance Hospitals
- Commissioning Existing Hospital Buildings Aids Peak Energy Performance
- Efficient Hospital Boilers Result in Financial, Environmental, and Safety Payoffs
- Energy-Efficient Hospital Lighting Strategies Pay Off Quickly
- Ground Source Heat Pumps: Weighing the Value to Hospitals
- Hospitals Benefit by Improving Inefficient Chiller Systems
- Hospitals Discover Advantages to Using Combined Heat and Power Systems
- Hospitals Pulling the Plug on Energy-Wasting Electric Equipment and Procedures
- Hospitals Realize Fast Paybacks from Retrofits and Operations and Maintenance Solutions
- Hospitals Realize Greatest Savings Through Formal Energy Management Program
- Hospitals Save Costs With Water Efficiency
- Hospitals Save Energy and Money by Optimizing HVAC Performance
- Integrated Building Design Critical to High-Performance Hospitals
- Renewables Make a Powerful Case as Hospital Energy Source
- Technical Guidance Document: LED Surgical Task Lighting
- LED Surgical Task Lighting Scoping Study
HEA Videos
The following HEA videos demonstrate how medical facilities across the nation are working toward becoming more energy efficient.
- Dell Children's Medical Center: Achieving LEED Platinum
- Dell Children's Medical Center: An Executive View of the Business Case
- Energy Management at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Paul Torcellini, National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Design and Planning to Create More Energy-Efficient Buildings
Suppliers play a critical role in providing energy-saving technologies and strategies. Learn more about how suppliers can participate with the alliances.