Sustainability
Partnerships
October 20, 2008
EPA Energy Star
Healthcare Partner
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NYU Langone Medical Center has joined the Partner
program and completed the first key steps toward
applying for an Energy Star award in late 2008.
Energy Star Resources will assist NYU Medical to:
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Prepare an Energy Strategy for the Future
Establish a comprehensive energy management program using ENERGY
STAR's Guidelines for Energy Management.
Benchmark energy performance with Portfolio Manager.
Participate in the ENERGY STAR Challenge.
Become an ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge Driver.
Receive training through our Recommended Workshops for Healthcare.
Purchase ENERGY STAR qualified products to save energy throughout
the Campus.
Design new or expansion facilities to be energy efficient.
Plan for use of on-site renewable energy
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EPA Climate Leaders
• Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government
partnership that works with companies to develop
comprehensive climate change strategies.
• NYU Langone Medical Center will commit to reducing
our impact on the global environment by completing a
corporate-wide inventory of our greenhouse gas
emissions based on a quality management system,
setting aggressive reduction goals, and annually
reporting their progress to EPA.
• Through our participation in this program, NYU Langone
Medical Center will create a credible record of our
accomplishments and receive EPA recognition as
corporate environmental leaders.
EPA Combined Heat & Power
Partnership
NYU Langone Medical Center is exploring the feasibility of onsite cogeneration, or
Combined Heat & Power, and is moving forward to evaluate qualifications for
potential design engineering partners through an RFQ process. The EPA CHP
Partnership described below will be a valuable resource to the NYU Langone
Medical Administration and project team in working to evaluate design elements
going forward.
“Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, is an efficient, clean,
and reliable approach to generating power and thermal energy from a single fuel
source. By installing a CHP system designed to meet the thermal and electrical
base loads of a facility, CHP can greatly increase the facility's operational
efficiency and decrease energy costs. At the same time, CHP reduces the emission
of greenhouse gases, which contribute to global climate change.”
The CHP Partnership is a voluntary program seeking to reduce the environmental
impact of power generation by promoting the use of CHP. The Partnership works
closely with energy users, the CHP industry, state and local governments, and
other clean energy stakeholders to facilitate the development of new projects.
EPA WaterSense Partner
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WaterSense, a partnership program sponsored by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, makes it easy for Americans to save
water and protect the environment.
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NYU Langone Medical Center has pledged to purchase products
bearing the WaterSense label and to build more effective controls over
costs and use of water and wastewater.
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Sustainability initiatives tied to the EPA program are built on these two
key questions:
How Does Excessive Water Use Affect Water Quality?
What Are the Environmental Benefits of Using Water Efficiently?
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Between increasing demand and shrinking supply, our water
resources are strained across the country. However, by using water
more efficiently we can preserve water resources for the future.
US Department of Energy
“Energy Smart Hospitals”
• From the DOE Program announcement, July 2008: “Hospitals
today find themselves at the nexus of two critical pressurepoints: healthcare and energy. Within the healthcare industry,
the constraints of rising costs, lower reimbursements, an
aging population, and outdated facilities are intersecting with
burgeoning energy pressures such as growing demand, rising
costs, and increasing concerns about carbon emissions and
energy reliability.”
• To support hospitals in addressing both these challenging
trends, the Department of Energy (DOE) has created a
comprehensive initiative – EnergySmart Hospitals – and its
centerpiece, the industry-driven Hospital Energy Alliance.
US Department of Energy
“Energy Smart Hospitals”
EnergySmart Hospitals goals:
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Promote 20% improved efficiency in existing buildings and 30% in new
construction over current standards
Increase efficient and renewable energy applications in hospitals
Reduce energy use and operating costs
Create healthier healing and work environments
Maximize successful hospital upgrades and design strategies
Ensure reliable backup power during disasters
Improve environmental performance
…“Through these efforts, DOE will provide the resources, tools, and strategies
that our nation's hospitals must have to identify clear pathways to cost and
energy savings through efficient and renewable energy technology
applications for both new and existing facilities.
Practice Greenhealth
• Practice Greenhealth is the nation’s leading membership and
networking organization for institutions in the healthcare
community that have made a commitment to sustainable, ecofriendly practices. Members include hospitals, healthcare
systems, businesses and other stakeholders engaged in the
greening of healthcare to improve the health of patients, staff
and the environment.
• Practice Greenhealth offers a wide variety of tools, educational
opportunities, and services aimed at greening the healthcare
industry. These include:
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Webinars
Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange
Training for Sustainability Professionals
Waste Data Tracking Tool
Green Guide For Healthcare
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The Green Guide for Health Care™, is the healthcare sector’s “first
quantifiable sustainable design toolkit integrating enhanced environmental
and health principles and practices into the planning, design, construction,
operations and maintenance of their facilities.”
The Guide provides the healthcare sector with a voluntary, self-certifying
metric toolkit of best practices that designers, owners, and operators can use
to guide and evaluate their progress towards high performance healing
environments.
Issues such as 24/7 operations, energy and water use intensity, chemical
use, infection control requirements and formidable regulatory requirements
can pose significant obstacles to the implementation of currently accepted
sustainability protocols.
Furthermore, “it is appropriate that guidelines customized for the health care
sector reflect the collective fundamental mission to protect and enhance
individual and community health, and that those guidelines acknowledge the
intrinsic relationship between the built environment and ecological health.”
The New York Energy
Consumers Council
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NYU Medical has been a member of the NYECC (formerly the Energy Buyers Forum) for
over ten years. Through the organization, critical intervention efforts in rate cases,
restructuring and environmental proceedings at the NYS Public Service Commission and
the NY Independent System Operator (NYISO) are coordinated and funds for intervention
are effectively shared.
History of the Organization
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“New York Energy Consumers Council (NYECC) is the largest energy customer advocacy
organization in New York State. Their includes a half-century of successful regulatory intervention
as the Owners’ Committee on Electric Rates, Inc. and nearly two decades of education, regulatory
intervention, and members’ representation as the New York Energy Buyers Forum, Inc. Members
of NYECC represent a broad spectrum of energy buyers, including hospitals, universities, financial
institutions, residential and commercial property managers, public benefit corporations, energy
service companies, and energy consumers or groups of consumers in Con Edison’s service
territory.”
PlaNYC
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In December 2006, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg challenged New
Yorkers to generate ideas for achieving 10 key goals for the city's
sustainable future.
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The result is the “most sweeping plan to enhance New York's urban
environment in the city's modern history.” Focusing on the five key
dimensions of the city's environment - land, air, water, energy, and
transportation – New York has set the goal of reducing its citywide
carbon emissions by 30% below 2005 levels.
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PlaNYC puts forth a strategy to reduce the City’s greenhouse gas
footprint, while also accommodating a population growth of nearly
one million, and improving the City’s infrastructure and environment.
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Among other initiatives, NYU Langone Medical will actively participate
in the PLANYC annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory to help
track progress toward the Campus and Citywide goals simultaneously.
Contacts
• EPA Energy Star Healthcare Partner :
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=healthcare.bus_healthcare
• EPA Climate Leaders: http://www.epa.gov/stateply/
• EPA Combined Heat & Power Partnership: http://www.epa.gov/chp/
• EPA WaterSense Partner: http://www.epa.gov/watersense/
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US Department of Energy “Energy Smart Hospitals”:
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http://www.energy.gov/news/6428.htm
Practice Greenhealth: http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/
Green Guide For Healthcare: http://www.gghc.org/
The New York Energy Consumers Council: http://www.nyecc.com
PlaNYC:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/home/home.shtml