National energy efficiency solutions company, Anesco, has successfully completed a major contract for leisure giant Whitbread, to bring ‘green’ power to ten of its sites across the southwest of England.
Whitbread, Premier Inn’s parent company, is to become more sustainable by using the sun’s energy to help power a number of its hotels and restaurants. The initiative is part of Whitbread’s strategy of achieving a 26% reduction in its carbon emissions by 2020.
Ten Premier Inn hotels across southern England have been fitted with solar photovoltaic panels that are expected to generate over 84 kilowatts (per year) of electricity and save more than 42 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year.
Chris George, Head of Energy and Environment at Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants, said: “As a leading hospitality business, we have an extensive estate of restaurants and hotels where we can employ innovative carbon saving technologies to drive down our carbon emissions and reduce our energy and carbon bills. Solar photovoltaic panels have performed well at our latest sustainable hotel at Camborne in Cornwall. Rolling out the technology across other selected properties will boost our environmental performance even further and takes us a step closer towards achieving our carbon reduction targets.”
Whitbread commissioned national energy efficiency supplier Anesco to install the solar photovoltaic panels. The energy generated will be supplied back to the ten hotels and restaurants to lower their energy consumption, or made available to the national grid when energy demand from the hotels is low.
The ten Premier Inn hotels with new solar photovoltaic panels installed include Liskeard, Fraddon (near Newquay), St Austell, Helston, Truro, Tring, Bodmin, Barnstable and Lockyers Quay and Sutton Harbour in Plymouth.
Adrian Pike, CEO of Anesco, said: “We’re delighted to be working with a company as progressive as Whitbread. They are leading the way when it comes to improving energy efficiency on a large scale within the hospitality sector.
“As experts in energy efficiency solutions, we are able to work with organisations such as Whitbread to assess current energy usage and what will be the most beneficial ‘green’ measures to introduce. We look at every aspect of how a business operates and the measures we then implement can bring substantial long term environmental and financial savings.”
Anesco works with local authorities, businesses and homeowners looking to reduce their carbon emissions. The firm provides organisation with a comprehensive energy service, from audits through to recommendations, installations and capital funding plans.
For more details visit www.anesco.co.uk
