Healthcare & NHS Estates Solar Carport Buyer's Guide and Checklist

The Healthcare & NHS Estates Solar Carport Checklist

This checklist is for healthcare & nhs estates buyers — typically finance directors, sustainability heads, estate managers or procurement leads — and sets out what to check, ask and budget for before a carport project goes to tender.

What to check

• NHS Greener Plan and Greener NHS Standard: check what your Trust must do by 2040
• PSDS Phase 4: it closed to new applications in November 2024, so check what it funded and do not assume a successor
• Salix programmes are nation-specific: check what remains open in your nation
• HTM-03-01 and HBN 00-09: confirm that hospital electrical installation and car park standards are addressed in the design
• OZEV Workplace Charging Scheme: £500 per socket, 40-socket cap, claimed by an OZEV-authorised installer
• EMC: for sites with MRI or EEG equipment, ask for an EMC assessment
• Worked example: see the modelled 315 kWp NHS Trust carport on the healthcare sector page

How to use the checklist

• Run an internal feasibility estimate for your site profile
• Identify the right funding route (capital allowances / PPA / asset finance / nation-specific public-sector programmes)
• Build the business case for board/committee approval
• Know what to ask installers when running a competitive tender

Before you appoint an installer

• Check the installer's MCS certificate on the MCS register where the scheme applies, and OZEV authorisation if EV chargers are included
• Ask who holds the principal designer and principal contractor roles under CDM 2015
• Ask for a RIDDOR record and a current CHAS, SafeContractor or Constructionline certificate
• Ask who submits the planning and G99 grid applications, and what the quote includes
• Ask what the O&M agreement and the manufacturer warranties cover

Related on solarcarparks.co.uk

• Full Healthcare & NHS Estates sector guide
• Grants & funding routes
• Compare PPA, AIA, asset finance, Salix