Case Study: Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust achieves immediate financial savings and ROI in just over 3 months with Certero’s PowerStudio

Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust Immediate financial savings and ROI in just over 3 months

The Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust, a UK paediatric centre employing over 2,400 staff and serving a population of around 5 million, needed to cut energy costs and meet Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) targets while managing more than 1,700 PCs without disrupting clinical services or IT maintenance. To address this, the Trust engaged Certero and its PowerStudio solution to identify safe power‑down opportunities, retain out‑of‑hours patching capability, and accommodate varied user needs with no productivity impact.

Certero delivered a free 30‑day PowerStudio proof‑of‑concept to capture baseline usage, then implemented centralized, non‑intrusive power‑saving policies (training completed in one day), excluded critical systems, and scheduled wake‑ups for updates. The result was immediate financial savings, reduced CRC credit purchases, increased control over wake/power‑down, and an ROI in just over three months — all with minimal help‑desk impact and improved green credentials for the Trust.