Heating is a critical – and expensive – element of running a care home, which is why maintaining an efficient system is so important, as Jeremy Carter of Carter Energy Consulting explains.
In care homes, the biggest consumer of energy is heating. Care homes use heat for building comfort and in the provision of hot water. Having audited a number of care homes, I have seen a lot of unnecessary energy waste within heating systems.
Typically, care homes will consume and waste energy within heating in three main ways:
The first way a care home consumes and wastes energy in heating is through the efficiency of the heat source. I have seen a range of heat sources, from old, inefficient, poorly maintained boilers to state of the art air source heat pumps. Naturally, the efficiency of the heat source will play a dominating factor in the overall heating system efficiency.
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