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This Hospital is comprised of seven community hospitals, a continuing care hospital as well as several emergency centers and physical therapy clinics. It consistently ranks as “One of America’s Best Hospitals” according to U.S. News and World Report, and has earned worldwide recognition in multiple specialties including cardiovascular surgery, cancer, epilepsy treatment and organ transplantation. Acclaim was retained to help improve operating efficiencies through its EMOI service.
Situation
Energy spend > $12 million/year and looking for options to save.
Detailed Summary
The leadership team was unaware of major operational issues impacting energy costs of more than $12 million annually. Energy procurement and risk management were not aligned with business and operations teams. Energy management was disaggregated across departments and regrettably did NOT have a strategic focus by senior leadership.
Opportunity
Conduct analytics of energy-centric operations to demonstrate costly irregularities and opportunities for enhanced performance.
Detailed Summary
Establish analytics and share insights on various projects to assess opportunities to deliver savings. Prove the value add from energy consulting best practices to senior leadership. Build a long-term relationship to act as an outsourced strategic energy advisor.
Impact
Changed the paradigm of how analytical expertise can be applied to the energy equation.
Detailed Summary
Acclaim established new dashboards to track performance and discovered additional savings were possible through focused optimization at the station level.
Increased power generated by CHP to blend down cost of purchased power for savings of $425K/year at the Medical Center campus.