Valley Children’s Energy Resilience and Environmental Strategy

What started as a quest for improving aging energy infrastructure and overall operational resilience, evolved to an opportunity to become the first net-zero pediatric hospital campus in the country and largest renewable energy microgrid for a hospital emergency system in the country. Meet Valley Children’s Healthcare (VCH) — located in California’s Central Valley, home to some of the poorest Congressional districts in the country and the most polluted zip code in California. VCH has and continues to experience the devastating impacts of climate change, including threatening power outages.

In the spring of 2021, after submitting an RFP re an energy strategy for the main campus, VCH partnered with healthcare engineering and consulting firm, Mazzetti, to help balance first cost, life cycle cost, facility resilience, and environmental footprint, taking advantage of new technologies, new codes, and new financing methods, including the unexpected twist of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The successful implementation of the VCH energy resilience program can be used as a model for other Health and Human Services Climate Pledge signees, showing what’s possible!

Powering the Future of Pediatric Care

Striving to become the first net-zero pediatric hospital campus in the country, Valley Children’s Healthcare is launching a revolutionary energy resilience and environmental strategy. Upon completion, Valley Children’s will achieve net-zero carbon emissions and operate the largest pediatric healthcare-based renewable energy microgrid in the country.

Valley Children’s partnered with Mazzetti to accomplish two strategic priorities – to build energy resiliency for the hospital campus 24/7 operations and to do their part to improve air quality in the region. Valley Children’s, the leading provider of pediatric care in Central California, specifically needed to address the increasing risk of (utility-level) power outages while achieving energy independence and security and lower operational costs.

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Valley Children's has launched a bold environmental strategy to build energy resiliency for hospital campus operations and to drive efforts for improved air quality in the region.

Striving to Become the First Net-zero Pediatric Hospital

Upon completion, Valley Children’s will achieve net-zero carbon emissions and operate the largest pediatric healthcare-based renewable energy microgrid in the country.

Inflation Reduction Act Can Supercharge Hospital Renewable Energy Initiatives

Act delivers tax credits, direct payments and other incentives to nonprofit organizations investing in solar and other renewable energy sources

Mazzetti Spearheads the Largest Renewable Energy Microgrid in the U.S., Connected to a Hospital Emergency System

Mazzetti is helping transform healthcare infrastructure through renewable energy, working in partnership with Valley Children’s Healthcare. This collaboration, further bolstered by a recently awarded grant from the United States Department of Energy (DOE), aims to fortify the hospital’s energy resilience and significantly reduce its carbon footprint.

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