Commonwealth Fund article on Gundersen Lutheran

Case Study: Lowering Health Care Costs Through Energy Efficiency
By Sarah Klein
Summary: Concerned that it was wasting financial resources that would be better spent on health care, a Wisconsin-based health system embarked on an ambitious plan to reduce its energy use by more than 30 percent and to offset its remaining consumption with renewable energy projects, including one with a local brewery that will convert the brewery's waste into electricity. The health system's goal is to produce as much clean energy as it consumes by 2014, using techniques that have quick paybacks so that savings from reduced energy use can be used to support the institution's health care mission.