Loughborough Hospital will benefit from greener electricity, after 375 solar panels were fitted on its roofs.
The panels were paid for from a £180,000 sustainability grant from NHS England.
The system will save around 11 per cent of the hospital’s electricity costs, or about £50,000 a per year. It will mean around 56 tonnes less CO2 will be released into the atmosphere.
A spokesman for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, which is responsible for the hospital, said: “This is another positive step towards our ambition of delivering a Net Zero health service.”
Loughborough Hospital needs electricity 24 hours a week, 365 days a year. It currently has three 24-hour inpatient wards, as well as an urgent treatment centre and a wide range of outpatient clinics.
The panels were supplied and installed by Leicester-based Fusion Electrics.
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust also has solar arrays at two of its other seven-day-a-week units – the Beacon Unit for young people, and Watermead ward at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit.