Increased energy efficiency could generate up to $22 billion in economic activity
Michigan Conservative Energy Forum releases Hill Group report
LANSING, MI – Expanding Michigan’s successful energy optimization program could generate up to $22 billion in economic activity, according to a report released today by The Hill Group, Inc.
“Increasing investment in Michigan’s energy efficiency program could significantly reduce the state’s dependence on imported energy, save families and businesses money and increase economic vitality by supporting jobs and spurring economic activity,” said Johnathan Talcott, management consultant at The Hill Group, Inc. “This report will equip policymakers with the data needed to make informed decisions about Michigan’s energy future, including long-term strategies to advance Michigan’s energy economy.”
The report was commissioned by the MCEF and examines the economic impacts of continuing and expanding Michigan’s current energy optimization program.
“This study demonstrates that further investment in energy efficiency presents a huge opportunity for Michigan—one that we can’t let pass us by,” said Larry Ward, executive director of the Michigan Conservative Energy Forum (MCEF). “Michigan’s current energy policy goals were targeted to be met and reevaluated by 2015. We need strong leadership from Lansing to make sure the positive momentum we’ve built under the current goals continues. Increasing our use of energy efficiency will build on our successes, eliminate energy waste, grow Michigan’s clean energy economy by billions of dollars and support thousands of Michigan jobs.”
The report examines two scenarios: a continuation of current policy, which caps the annual program budget at two percent of a utility’s annual revenue, and an expansion of current policy, which would remove the cap on the annual program budget.
According to the report, removing the cap on the energy optimization program and pursuing all achievable cost-effective energy efficiency could:
• Create $22 billion in economic output
• Support 163,000 job-years
• Result in $7.6 billion in employment compensation
Continuing Michigan’s energy optimization program with a budget cap could:
• Create $8.1 billion in economic output
• Support 60,000 job-years
• Result in $2.8 billion in employment compensation
“I’ve witnessed first-hand the tremendous potential for businesses to save money through energy efficiency,” said Jeff Burks of Key Green Solutions, LLC. “My company helps hospitals reduce energy waste—saving the health care industry millions of dollars on utility bills, allowing them to reduce costs and invest in life-saving technology.”
“Michigan’s business community has seen fantastic results from our energy optimization program, which helps businesses and families reduce their energy use and save money on electric bills,” said Brindley Byrd, executive director of the Michigan Energy Efficiency Contractors Association. “This report confirms what we’re already experiencing in communities across Michigan – the energy optimization programs are a pro-business policy that helps businesses grow and create jobs. We need the Legislature to take the lead in crafting a new energy policy that emphasizes clean energy efficiency. ”
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Palomar Health saves over $30,000 annually in waste service costs by reducing the number of pickups!
Barbara Hamilton, System Sustainability Manager at Palomar Health, states “when I was
looking at the data in the Key Green Solutions dashboard, I noticed that our Palomar
Downtown campus was paying twice as much per ton as the other two campuses for
municipal solid waste, (regular trash). Upon closer inspection, and because all the information is in the same place and easy to compare, I noticed that the waste compactor at Palomar Downtown campus was being picked up for disposal 3 times per week, and it only needed to be picked up one time per week. Apparently the schedule had never been changed after the move to Palomar Medical Center. By catching this in the software and reducing that service, we are now saving over $20,000 per year. We made a similar adjustment at Palomar Medical Center and reduced service by one day and are saving an additional $10,000 at that campus.”
Key Green Solutions is the leading international provider of a sustainability management software suite for healthcare. Key Green is benchmarking and standardizing energy, water, waste, food and environmentally preferred purchasing data for hospitals and
helping in their quest for increasing efficiency and managing costs as they deliver care in their facilities. The software has interfaces to load the vendor’s electronic data, instead of
manually collecting the data in spreadsheets.
Key Green Solutions participates on an expert panel at the Greening Health Care Workshop in Toronto, Ontario on November 27, 2013.
Here is the workshop agenda: Agenda
Greening Health Care provides the knowledge and resources you need to maximize energy and operating cost savings and raise the environmental performance for your hospital to be a leader in the community.
Key Green Solutions is the leading international provider of a sustainability
management software suite for healthcare. Key Green is benchmarking and
standardizing energy, water, waste, food and environmentally preferred purchasing
data for hospitals and helping in their quest for increasing efficiency and managing costs as they deliver care in their facilities. The software has interfaces to load the vendor’s
electronic data, instead of manually collecting the data in spreadsheets.
Key Green Solutions is exhibiting at CleanMed 2012 (Denver, CO)
The CleanMed Exhibits and Exposition will showcase suppliers and service providers that offer sustainable products and services to the health care sector. Key Green Solutions will participate in the Exhibits and Exposition. Please visit us at Booth #422.
CleanMed education sessions feature topics such as sustainable design, green building, energy and water conservation, chemical reduction, environmentally preferable purchasing, incorporating sustainability into corporate culture, and other topics of importance to health care building and operations. Most of these sessions carry CEUs for multiple disciplines. CleanMed is one of the most affordable conferences offered to health care.
Key Green Solutions customers find it easier to apply for the 2012 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards
It can be a challenge to find data for electricity, natural gas, water, recycling, hazardous, regulated medical waste, solid waste, pharmaceuticals and universal waste. Now with Key Green Solutions sustainability management software, it is easy. Many of the Key Green Solutions customers are applying for the nationally recognized Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards. This awards application is the roadmap for how to strategically “go green” at your hospital.
Denise Choiniere, MS, RN, sustainability manager for University of Maryland Medical Center says, “got to tell you…your system is AWESOME for pulling data! This will not be nearly as painful as last year!”
Bob Demers, with St. Joseph Hospital (Covenant Health Systems) says, ”I used the software to pull my energy numbers for the awards application and it worked great!”
Alison Waske, Sustainable Business Officer with Metro Health says, “we used KGS to help identify the total amount and cost of many different waste streams needed to complete the Practice Greenhealth award application.”
Health care providers work to stream line energy, waste and water data with Key Green Solutions software
Key Green Solutions Key Green Solutions LLC, a Grand Rapids, MI-based sustainability software developer, is helping local and out-of-state health care systems manage their multitudes of data in a single, consolidated web-based program. With an emphasis on energy use and waste, as well as ease of user management, Key Green’s product is expected to increase efficiency and bring to light cost issues specific to hospitals.
Key Green currently has contracts with organizations in 10 states. Users manage approximately 20 million square feet spread across 50 different facilities.
Click the link below to gain additional insight into the technology that is streamlining sustainability data for health care:
http://www.mibiz.com/news/healthcare/19305-sustainability-efficiency-programs-health-care-providers-work-to-streamline-energy-utilities-data-with-software.html
Key Green Solutions LLC (KGS) presents with West Michigan Shared Hospital Laundry at the IAHTM 2011 Annual Meeting in St. John, New Brunswick on September 17-22, 2011.
The International Association for Healthcare Textile Management (IAHTM) was founded in 1969 and, today, is the largest healthcare central laundry organization in the world. IAHTM members provide service to approximately 3,000 healthcare facilities in the U.S. and Canada and process 700 million pounds of clean linen each year. Key Green Solutions LLC, the leading hospital sustainability management software company, is proud to be a partner with West Michigan Shared Hospital Laundry and to participate in the exciting event.
Key Green Solutions, LLC has been named a 2011 Innovation Michigan finalist
KeyGreen Solutions, LLC, an innovative hospital sustainability web based software company based in Grand Rapids has been named a top 25 finalist for the 2011 Innovation Michigan Awards by BusinessReview West Michigan
Mark Huizenga, Key Green Solutions Manager is also a health care consultant , states
that Key Green Solutions unique software suite has been a providing of software
to West Michigan hospitals several years. Key Green Solutions continues to grow their market, expanding into several additional states. This year Key Green Solutions has had several new installations in hospitals in Michigan and has expanded into Maryland,
Indiana and Ohio. Key Green continues to provide distinctive energy, waste, and recycling programs for hospitals. There are a number of features that make this software exceptional for hospitals, such as facilitation the green movement in a facility through their project management component. Sustainability has been a growing market, but
the Key Green software not only “greens” their hospital clients, but also helps them realize a “bottom line” result as well. Jeff Burks is Key Green’s relationship manager, Jeff stated the growth for this product has been phenomenal, we will continue to grow, and expect to have the software suite in an additional 100 hospitals by year end.
For more information about how Key Green Solutions can help your hospital, contact Jeff Burks at 1-877-777-0862. www.keygreensolutions.com
Key Green Solutions Customer Saves Energy and Money by Retrofitting Lamps
1 simple way to produce real energy savings; a Key Green Solutions hospital customer retrofitted their lamps from T12 to T8 and saved both energy and money.
The hospital saw several benefits after retrofitting from T12 to T8
- It was simple to do.
- They saved over $50,000 annually.
- Their simple payback was less than 2 years.
- T8 lamps function with reduced mercury, a potentially harmful substance used in many lighting fixtures, therefore T8s are more sustainable.
The hospital utilizes Key Green Solutions sustainability software suite to measure and manage their energy conservation initiatives. Find out how your hospital can utilize Key Green software – the first 30 minute phone call is free – Call Jeff Burks, Relationship Manager at 877-777-0862.
Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (CCHGC) recognizes Key Green Solutions as a charter member at the 2011 Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society (CHES) conference held in Collingwood, Ontario
CCGHC is an alliance of committed Canadian health service organizations, associations and environmentally focused business associates that promotes the adoption of environmentally friendly and sustainable health care service delivery to complement the compassionate delivery of health care. CCGHC encourages the adoption of resource conservation, pollution prevention principles and effective environmental management systems to reduce the Canadian health care system’s ecological impact while protecting human health.
Key Green Solutions (KGS) is a leading international provider of a sustainability management software suite for healthcare. KGS is benchmarking and standardizing energy, water and waste data for hospitals and helping in their quest for increasing efficiency and managing costs as they deliver care in their facilities.