SOLAR FOR HOSPITAL

Virgin Solar power solutions for hospitals, health clinics, pathology labs and other medical facilities can run appliances used in their day to day operations like Lights, fans, Refrigerator, Water Heater and other medical equipments.

Solar power can be utilized in a big way by hospitals. Hospitals have many crucial lifesaving electrical appliances which needed to working 24 x 7 without any power interruption. With advent of frequent power outages and ever increasing diesel costs to operate diesel generators, the usage of solar power for hospitals has become the inevitable. Besides being green, the hospital can also feed the excess power generated through solar power to the electricity bills to a great extent.

Hospitals both in urban and rural areas consume a lot of energy throughout the day as the electrical equipment used directly or indirectly to treat patients require uninterrupted power. Many hospitals have considerable unused rooftop space. Combined with power shortages and rising cost of diesel, rooftop solar power makes a compelling case for implementation in hospitals; there are several advantages but also several constraints that need to be considered when deciding on and designing a rooftop solar power system for a hospital, such as using a variable source of power like solar to power equipment used in life saving situations. These are discussed in greater detail below.

Typical electrical loads in a hospital include

• Lighting

• Fans

• Refrigeration units

• Other electrical equipment

• Air conditioning

  Air conditioning is usually the heaviest load, accounting for more than half the energy consumed. Air conditioning is not a critical load in many companies; hospitals, however, may have some air conditioning load, such as in operation theatres or ICUs, where air conditioning has to run even during load shedding.