Jefferson Health System is a non-profit corporate entity that provides quality health care in a cost-effective manner through a comprehensive integrated health care delivery system. Members include founders Jefferson University Hospitals and Main Line Health System, the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Frankford Health Care System, and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital. System members provide patient care through more than 30 hospitals, medical centers, and primary, specialty and ambulatory care facilities throughout southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.

In 1999, a master energy services agreement (MESA) was executed between CEPS and Jefferson Health System. The MESA spelled out how energy projects were to be evaluated, as well as other contractual terms. The next step was to perform preliminary energy audits of the facilities. Once measures were identified, the System then decided which measures were to be studied in detail.

CEPS identified lighting upgrades as a primary opportunity for significant energy and operational savings. For example, the recommended and implemented energy conservation measures in lighting upgrades (including T8 lamps, fluorescent lamps, and electronic ballasts) at five Jefferson University Hospital buildings alone reduced electrical costs by seven percent, for savings of more than $256,400 annually.

CEPS created greater infrastructure efficiencies by replacing the entire boiler control system and installing a low NOx burner at the Einstein Medical Center’s 100,000-pound-per-hour steam plant. Water conservation measures identified and put into place save more than 15 million gallons and 1,500 MMBtu of water heating annually. More than $70,000 of additional savings were captured in condensate heat recovery.

With a total cost of $7.8 million, the project’s nearly 40 initiatives at nine different System hospitals and several satellite sites created annual savings of $1.4 million.

CEPS facilitated the financing of $6.7 million in upgrades and improvements to Jefferson University Hospital and Albert Einstein Medical Center through its Energy Services Project Agreement, allowing for project costs to be paid from savings realized from the upgrades. Main Line Health System and Frankford Health Care System projects totaling $1.1 million were paid for directly through cash disbursements.