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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.
Chris George, head of energy and environment at Whitbread, said: “Solar photovoltaic panels have performed well at our latest sustainable hotel at Camborne in Cornwall and rolling out the technology across other selected properties takes us a step closer towards achieving our carbon reduction targets.”
Whitbread has commissioned energy efficiency supplier Anesco to install the solar photovoltaic panels. The energy generated will be fed 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, St Austell, Helston, Truro, Tring, Bodmin, Barnstable, Lockyers Quay, Fraddon, near Newquay and Sutton Harbour in Plymouth.
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