Care homes and primary care aren't 9-5 businesses. They operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and draw a constant baseload on electricity from heating, hot water and the kitchen while providing care around the clock, not showing the peaks and troughs of a commercial business. This continuous power usage actually makes for favourable self-consumption economics but the complexities in adapting a generic commercial approach around such sensitive considerations as vulnerable patients mean it doesn't readily fit standard business patterns. Arc Renewables treats Healthcare separately using operational conditions to form its engagement instead of distorting a commercial process to it.
The feasibility for a single care home must consider a building that never closes and can't tolerate any disruption to heat, hot water or front facing areas. It is usually assessed in terms of:
Care home groups and healthcare property investors with multi-site portfolio interests suffer from a similar need for prioritisation as other multi-site sectors, but all aspects are exacerbated by the very high regulatory & operational sensitivities across each and every site in a property portfolio. Strategy work would involve the following;