Approaches to electrical self-sufficiency within Hospitals
The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH) in looking for technologies to fulfil their ambitions of achieving net zero carbon across their hospital sites by 2030. Hospitals consume enormous amounts of energy, and the Trust would like to make the hospital sites resilient for their energy needs and self-generate as much energy as possible. They would like to explore approaches to help them be less reliant on the grid, while also appreciating that safeguarding patients is critical and any approaches must not impact on patient health or comfort, and must cause minimal disruption to hospital operation in deployment or trial. The Trust is looking for innovative partners to work alongside the sites in Hull to bring about their net zero ambitions and fulfil their strategy for energy security.
Opportunity
Challenge opens
23/05/2023
Challenge closes
30/06/2023
Benefit
Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their technologies to Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH), and there are potential business opportunities for the future for innovations that bring about the right return on net zero and financial benefits.
Background
Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH) are situated in the geographical area of Kingston upon Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, they employ 9,600 WTE staff, have an annual turnover of £726 million (2020/21) and operate from two main sites - Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital – whilst delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the local health economy area. There are 4 main sites owned and operated by HUTH with varied construction, size and use which include several large multi storey hospital buildings and also smaller buildings across the sites, with the smallest being the mobile centres that have been installed to increase capacity quickly.
The NHS has a target to achieve 80% reduction in emissions by 2032. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is making an ambitious commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030 in their Zero30 plan.
The Trust aim to decarbonise the estate and infrastructure by 50% by 2028 and have asked Innovate UK KTN to work with them to help them identify potential innovative solutions to be able to deliver and deploy solutions to help them meet their targets. WithIn the future of the estates, the Trust is working to reduce the energy demand of its buildings while considering power generation and efficient use of energy. The desire is to make the hospitals as independent as possible in the future, in order to have a robust health service that is secure and safe.
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