Contract guarantees pounds 'm energy saving for museum.

A DEAL that includes a pledge to save pounds 500,000 a year from the Museum of Liverpool's energy bills was struck thanks to a city law firm.

Hill Dickinson drafted a complex series of procurement agreements between National Museums Liverpool (NML) and contractor Ener-G Combined Power.

They set out Ener-G's commitment to design and install its proposed energy solution for the new museum by early 2010, and then to operate and maintain the installation for a term of 17 years.

In them, Ener-G also guarantees to save NML pounds 500,000 per year through energy savings against energy expenditure. Museum bosses had projected it would have to spend that amount at the new museum had it not outsourced in this way.

The technology incorporates the latest in tri-generation wizardry, which provides heating, power and cooling.

Tony Allen, NML's executive director of finance, said: "The new Museum of Liverpool will be a future landmark for the city's infamous waterfront, so it is vital that it has modern and efficient energy facilities and systems at its core.

"The savings that this energy project guarantees will allow funds that would ordinarily have gone towards powering, heating and cooling the building to be put towards showcasing the NML's outstanding collections in the best possible way."

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Energy saving: one end of the Museum of Liverpool's futuristic X-wing design