Energy Optimization for Healthcare: Unlocking Value, Efficiency, and Sustainability
Delivering exceptional patient care while managing rising costs and sustainability targets is a challenge for every healthcare organization. Optimum Energy partners with health systems to help them get more from their energy infrastructure—improving reliability, reducing costs, and supporting environmental goals while providing remote operational support
How we help – delivering exceptional outcomes
Optimum Energy delivers end-to-end energy solutions designed for healthcare. Our Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) model provides upfront capital for infrastructure upgrades or deferred maintenance, with Optimum assuming responsibility for performance, operations, and maintenance—guaranteeing results without added financial burden.
We optimize central plants and HVAC systems using real-time data, machine learning, and advanced controls to reduce energy use, cut costs, and improve reliability. Our team also provides building automation programming, retro-commissioning, and long-term controls planning—ensuring your systems operate efficiently today and are future-ready for tomorrow.
How Hospitals Benefit
The OptiCx® platform dynamically and automatically adapts to fluctuating conditions to yield the lowest possible kW/ton, ensuring building systems achieve peak performance day after day, year after year. The patented Real-Time Dynamic Commissioning™ technology fights performance drift by detecting and addressing issues in real time. Sophisticated software algorithms and modeling techniques also produce a detailed, real-world baseline, which, combined with the OptiCx® Measurement and Verification tool, gives you performance data and energy savings results in real time. This allows you to quickly retool and reset when necessary.
Optimum Energy’s solutions typically reduce energy expenditures by up to 40%, helping you achieve HVAC optimization and giving you an average payback between one and five years. OptimumLOOP® also dramatically reduces water use, further contributing to sustainability goals. Additionally, Optimum Energy helps reduce HVAC equipment maintenance costs and wear and tear by balancing energy use among all components.
Optimum Energy offers EaaS partnerships that let you modernize your energy infrastructure without upfront capital investment. Here is how it works:
- Upfront Funding: Receive an advance lease payment to reinvest in infrastructure or other priorities, while retaining asset ownership.
- Guaranteed Savings: We guarantee a percentage of annual energy consumption savings, offsetting the cost of the monthly service agreement.
- Risk Transfer: Shift operational, maintenance, and performance risks to Optimum Energy, freeing your team to focus on core healthcare delivery.
- Flexible Partnership: Solutions tailored to your system—from single-site upgrades to full system optimization.
Optimum’s scalable, modular approach to energy optimization standardizes and deploys HVAC management best practices across an enterprise portfolio, regardless of building type, equipment, or BAS vendor. You can address one system at a time, within one building or across many facilities. Our centralized energy management system makes it easy to access the information you need.
Solutions that Support Healthcare
“In 20 years of experience, I’ve never seen chiller optimization like this,” said Morlang. “It has more depth, it analyzes the system as a whole, and it uses advanced algorithms to adjust for the system you have in a holistic way. We’re exceeding our predicted savings, and I expect that to continue year after year.””
“Through this project, we are more aware of energy efficiency and savings. It’s helping the team see the bigger picture—we’re not just providing chilled water, but we’re doing it as efficiently as possible and, ultimately, saving money.”
“Optimum Energy’s engineers were very good at finding opportunities to save additional energy and working with the building automation system vendor to make them happen.”
