Case Study: Mercury Engineering achieves £1 million energy savings with Edina CHP at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

Edina CHP sustainability at the heart of leading edge hospital

The customer, Mercury Engineering, was the mechanical and electrical contractor for the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. Their challenge was to help design and build an energy efficient and highly sustainable power plant for the large NHS facility, which required a secure power supply and a solution to minimize its carbon footprint while reducing long-term energy costs.

The vendor, Edina, designed and supplied a sustainable combined heat and power (CHP) plant using three MWM gas engines. The solution eliminated the need to dump high-grade heat, avoided the use of external coolers due to planning constraints, and could operate in island mode to maintain essential power during an outage. The Edina system is projected to save the hospital approximately £1 million in annual energy costs and reduce its carbon emissions by around one-fifth.

Mercury Engineering