Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Medical Facilities
 Tecogen cogeneration and cooling CHP products are a proven way for hospitals and nursing homes to reduce their operating costs and carbon footprints significantly, and maximize overall efficiency.
Hospitals and nursing homes are often large facilities with around-the-clock operations, large steady thermal and electric requirements, and central plants. This makes them ideal candidates for CHP systems. Best applications include small and large hospitals, medical office buildings (MOB’s), and nursing homes serving at least 100 residents.
The “Microgrid” feature of Tecogen’s InVerde product is particularly valued in medical facilities, because it can be easily configured to provide convenience power during an outage, keeping important but non-critical services operating, until the utility grid is restored. (Note: the InVerde is not intended to be applied as Level 1 or Level 2 Emergency Power Supply System as defined by the NFPA.)
Economic Benefits
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Operating savings to a hospital or nursing home can be over 50%, year after year. Tecogen systems can help attentive medical administrators and facility directors squeeze the most value out of limited budgets. Tecogen would be happy to provide you a detailed free economic analysis, to help you estimate the savings at your particular facility. |
System Options
Tecogen will help a hospital or nursing home determine which type of CHP system makes the most sense.
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 Cogeneration – Either a Tecogen induction generator-based or inverter-based cogeneration system can generate electricity that reduces a hospital’s or nursing home’s electrical bill significantly. At the same time, free waste heat can be recovered from the cogeneration system and used to offset fuel that would otherwise have to be burned in the facility’s boilers or water heaters. So in addition to savings on the electricity bill, the gas bill for space heating and domestic hot water (DHW) is also reduced. Alternatively, the free waste heat can even be used to drive an absorption chiller, a device which generates cooling from a heat source, thus relieving the hospital’s or nursing home’s other chillers from having to do as much of the air conditioning.
A Tecogen InVerde module can be operated independent of the grid during power outages, keeping some, or even all, of the hospital’s or nursing home’s services operating for extended periods. The patented “Microgrid” operating software allows multiple InVerde modules to operate harmoniously without any specialized external controls or field balancing. (Note: the InVerde is not intended to be applied as Level 1 or Level 2 Emergency Power Supply System as defined by the NFPA.)
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 Chiller – A TECOCHILL chiller, by comparison, provides cost-effective chilled water directly for a hospital’s or nursing home’s chilled water loop. It does this without using expensive on-peak electricity, greatly reducing the facility’s electric bill. At many hospital and large nursing homes, free waste heat that’s available from the engine(s) on the chiller can also be utilized to satisfy simultaneous hot water requirements, such as for domestic hot water (DHW) and space heating.
TECOCHILL systems require very little electric power, so are ideally suited for keeping medical facilities cool when the utility power has failed. In these applications, the existing backup power sources need only supply electricity for the chiller’s controls and ancillary equipment, rather than for the entire chiller.
Environmental Benefits
 Efficient Tecogen CHP systems can help a hospital or nursing home reduce its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions (CO2 output, or “carbon footprint”) by as much as 50%.
Tecogen CHP systems are a good way for a hospital or nursing home to “go green”, but in a practical, sensible way. They reduce global warming emissions, while achieving decent paybacks on their own and do not rely extensively on massive government incentives and tax benefits, like some other “green” measures do. Tecogen systems are an efficient and responsible investment of taxpayer and institutional dollars.
Please check out our list of cogen and chiller case studies and find out how facilities similar to yours are benefitting from Tecogen.
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