New clean energy upgrades to help cut bills at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) will benefit from new funding to install clean energy upgrades, helping to reduce energy bills.  

The government announced on 5 February that eighty-two NHS trusts, eight military sites and one prison will receive a share of £74 million to adopt clean energy technologies and improve their energy efficiency. 

CLCH has been allocated an additional £14,000, on top of the £270,000 awarded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as part of the Great British Energy Local Power Plan in March 2025, bringing the total to £284,000. This funding will help the Trust to install solar panels, battery storage and pipe insulation, helping to bring down bills and create savings that can be reinvested into frontline services.  

More than £9 million of the total £74 million will be delivered in partnership with Great British Energy (GBE) for batteries and solar panels. This builds on the publicly owned energy company’s £255 million investment in solar power for hospitals, schools and military sites last year.  

Severine Turgis, Head of Energy Transition at CLCH, said: “We are installing solar panels at three sites, bringing our total of freehold sites with solar panels to 10. We are also installing our first battery storage at Langley House. The site already has solar panels and heat pumps, so the battery storage will further increase the site resilience and help optimise our energy system.

“We are very excited to be able to deliver this work, thanks to the DESNZ funding we have been awarded. It will help us reduce our environmental impact, improve air quality for our communities, and reduce our carbon footprint from energy consumption.”

On the governments commitment to invest in green initiatives, Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said: “With lower bills for hospitals, better value for money, and a cleaner, more efficient NHS, everybody wins. 

“Every penny of these savings will be redirected straight back into frontline care and delivering an NHS patients, staff and the whole country can be proud of again. 

“This investment will help us build an NHS fit for the future.”