HOSPISOL Programme
Castilla y León
PROJECT TEAM & PARTNERS
EREN (Ente Regional de la Energía de Castilla y León).
SACyL (Health Service of Health Regional Minister of Castilla y León)
TOTAL BUDGET
€4.5m
Public Funding - Castilla y León Regional Minister of Economy and Regional minister of Health.
CONTRACT LENGTH
5 years
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
Hospisol is a programme, part of the "Castilla y León
Solar Energy Plan", carrying out the promotion of Solar
Thermal Energy benefits through promoting installations in public
hospitals.
Castilla y León has established a strategy of turning their
Hospitals into buildings with a respect for sustaining the
environment.
The objective of the project is to implement solar thermal energy
installations in public hospitals in Castilla y León.. From
the 23 public hospitals in the region, after a feasibility study,
16 hospitals were detected as having potential for carrying solar
thermal installations.
The initial estimations for the programme indicate that 9,000m2 of
solar thermal surface would be needed to cover 60 % of the annual
demand for domestic hot water production in regional hospitals,
affecting a total of 7,000 beds.
The technical support of the HOSPISOL Programme is complemented wby
the creation of a Solar Thermal Energy Guideline, which has been
added to the technical bidding conditions in the general Mechanical
Installations Guidelines for new Hospitals.
Additionally, an energy intranet was developed to support the data
arising from the management and monitoring of the hospital's
energy consumption.
Until now the 13 Solar Thermal installations implemented in
regional hospitals have contributed an annual average of 450
kWh/year/m2 of energy production, and an economic saving of 39.5
€/year/m2 of installed solar thermal collector/panel.
CHALLENGES FACED
1. Lack of knowledge experienced by the Hospital's maintenance workers, who in order to compensate had to receive a training session regarding the operation of the solar thermal installations, during the HOSPISOL programme execution.
2. Updating the assigned budget every year of the project.
3. The internal coordination with EREN and the Health Service of Health Regional Minister of Castilla y León whilst planning for new building or re-building Hospitals.
INNOVATIVE PRACTICE
The innovative model of management in HOSPISOL is based on the
"energy supply" model. That means EREN analyses the
projects, carries on and maintains the solar installations, whilst
Hospitals turn over part of the generated energy by their own solar
installations.
The Hospital pays EREN the consumption of energy with a reduction
of 10 % depending on the cost of the conventional used fuel in
every building, therby reimbursing EREN its initial investment.
The price of the fuel is updated according to the cost of fuel
acquisition by the Hospital. Once EREN pays off its investment, the
solar plant is owned by the Hospital. That's when the Hospital
starts getting the whole benefit from the installation (until the
end of its working life), together with the associated benefit
generated from saving energy.
It should be noted that training for the maintenance personnel of
the hospitals is also included in the management of the
installation.
PROJECT TARGETS
Carrying out the solar thermal energy installations in public
Hospitals of the region:
From a total of 23 only 16 were interested in installing solar
thermal energy and 13 installations have been completed..
Assuming the role of technical support in solar energy issues for
the Health Regional Minister:
Disseminating this kind of technology, showing HOSPISOL as an
example of best practice in the region:
LESSONS LEARNT & APPLICABILITY IN OTHER SITUATIONS
The system of applications designed by HOSPISOL can be
potentially replicated in any kind of public buildings with certain
adaptations and integrating them into an exclusive Net of Solar
Thermal Installations like in Castilla y León.
Buildings like hospitals were chosen for carrying out solar thermal
installations took place because hospitals of their high levels of
domestic hot water consumption which is quite constant along the
whole year. Other parameters were their excellent access for the
sun as well as large and accessible roofs for the installations of
solar collectors. The latter was thought to be a good showcase for
the solar technology, especially since hospitals are places
characterised by high flows on a daily basis.
Finally this forms a good example of the support to solar
technology from the Regional Government.
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
• The exhibition of Solar thermal installation posters in the
lobbies of the hospitals, will show employees, patients and
visitors that the Hospital uses Solar Thermal Energy.
• The dissemination of a publication with information of the
HOSPISOL Programme with details of every solar installation.
• The publication's contents are expected to be updated
and extended with new solar installations through to the end of the
programme. The objective of this publication is to create an easy
approach for programme replication in other public institutions.
This document will be also available from the EREN website together
with updated data on the installations parameters.
• The HOSPISOL Programme has been advertised in other regions
of Spain by those interested to replicate it in their regions. One
of the presentations took place during the Spanish Sustainable
Energy Week in Murcia.
CONCLUSIONS
The HOSPISOL Programme emerged in order to cover
the necessity in legislation, training and dissemination of solar
energy, with the regional Government setting the example. Another
positive result has been the fact that installing solar thermal
systems in buildings like hospitals has been considered a good way
of showcasing solar thermal technology to the high flow of people
accessing them every day.
CONTACT DETAILS
Jorge Jové Sandoval
Chief of the Solar Energy Area in EREN
Tel: •+34 987-84.07.50
E-mail: jovsanjo@jcyl.es
