Wisconsin's healthcare facilities have found that energy is an essential component to the delivery of quality patient services. Many of the Wisconsin healthcare facilities use more energy per square foot than other commercial building types. Increased use of new technologies by Wisconsin health care facilities has increased energy demand. As a result, the Focus on Energy program has targeted the health care industry for assistance with potential energy efficiency projects and activities.

Wisconsin's health care industry can be categorized into three distinctive segments:
     Hospitals (central plants)
     Outpatient Facilities (commercial buildings)
     Long-term Care Facilities (nursing homes)

How Focus on Energy Can Help You
Focus on Energy is designed to assist healthcare facilities in controlling their energy costs. Energy consumption accounts for a growing percentage of operating costs. Therefore, energy management in health care today is both a challenge and an opportunity. The Focus on Energy program can help meet this challenge by assisting in the identification and implementation of energy efficiency opportunities.

Focus on Energy can assist your health care facility by:

• Collecting and evaluating energy usage and cost data.
• Developing a Practical Energy Management program.
• Analysis of project feasibility (unbiased third party review).
• Financial assistance with energy efficiency project implementation.