The Huron-Perth Healthcare Alliance is looking at new ways to reduce its energy costs.
A co-generator will soon be installed at the Stratford General Hospital. It will allow them to substitute energy they produce with natural gas for energy they currently get from the grid.
Vice President of Fiscal Health Ken Haworth says they would also be able to use some of the excess heat produced by the co-generator to meet some of their heating requirements.
They still have to go out to tender, but Haworth says they're hoping to have the co-generator installed by late fall or early winter.
Haworth adds they estimate the cost of the co-generator to be about $3.5-million and the pay back period to be between three and six years at the most.
The next step would be installing co-generators at the hospital sites in Clinton, Seaforth and St. Marys.
