Graybar provides products and services to help our customers decrease their energy costs, increase their environmental stewardship and enhance their patient experience and well-being. Areas of particular interest include: lighting, lighting controls, power monitoring and metering, variable speed drives, power quality and conditioning and thermal management.
Benefits:
- Significant ROI (return on investment) – reduce equipment maintenance costs and downtime
- Energy-efficient systems reduce operating costs and downtime
- Resulting improvements in indoor environment and comfort can enhance patient health and recovery
- Environmental stewardship
- Create "clean" sine waves to minimize service interruptions
Things to Know:
- Energy is one of the few cost centers that hospitals actually have control over
- Every $1 a non-profit health care organization saves on energy is equivalent to $20 in new revenues for hospitals
- For-profit hospitals, medical offices and nursing homes can boost earnings per share by a penny for each 5% reduction in energy costs
- Health care facilities account for 9% of all commercial energy consumption in America
- Inpatient health care facilities use approximately two times the energy of office buildings of the same size
- Nation's 8,000 hospitals spend more than $5 billion annually on energy costs, which is 1-3% of their total budget and equal to at least 15% of their profit
- 2007 study by ASHE (American Society for Healthcare Engineering) reported that 91% of hospitals faced higher energy costs than the year before and over 50% of those cited increases in double-digit percentages
- Hospitals will consider a triple bottom line: delivering excellent health care to patients, building a healthier community and managing costs effectively, operating the facility as efficiently as possible
- There are incentives available through EPAct, local utilities and local/state governments that could decrease the cost of energy savings projects
- There are legislative mandates regarding green buildings that can affect new buildings and major renovations
Key Areas of Focus