June 23, 2009
Hotel Industry Adopts Solar to Save Energy
As consumers demand more eco-friendly vacation choices, the tourism industry is responding with energy-efficient and carbon friendly resorts and hotels.
In the U.S., as an example, the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick in New Jersey recently installed a SunPower solar power system, marking the hotel’s initial step towards generating clean, renewable solar power. The hotel partnered with SunPower Corp. to design and install the 32,000-square-foot, 421-kilowatt system over the top floor of the hotel’s garage.
Hyatt Regency New Brunswick’s solar power system uses SunPower’s high-efficiency solar panels with its patented PowerGuard roof….
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Reader Comments
“the output from the system will help reduce New Jersey’s CO2 emissions by 10,000 tons over the next 30 years” That is awesome! Good for them.
hinkley | June 24th, 2009
This is great, i love all these new developments. soon the vast majority of hotels will implement these eco-resorts
hopefully
Eco resort lover | June 25th, 2009
This is a great article. Ever since I got into geothermal I can’t get enough news about energy saving systems being implemented.
Stan | June 26th, 2009
We are building and eco.friendly clinic in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle. Interested in topics related to solar energy.
Luis | July 8th, 2009
It is good to see more businesses moving to solar energy and this is just one of the opportunities to make hotels and other accommodation type operations more environmentally friendly. Technologies best use is when a totally new development is engineered for the lowest environment impact but excellent results are achieved by refurbishing existing hotels. The numner of hotels going green is not low and some of them can be easily spotted on http://www.hotelbeam.com hotels list by searching for green hotels.
Green Hotels | October 14th, 2009
Note: the Marriott Residence Inn in West Orange NJ was the first NJ hotel to install solar panels.
Michael Mahle | March 5th, 2010
gud to c this article, i hope every hotel, industrys etc will install these solar panels which leads to reduce the power consumption.
v venugopal | June 30th, 2011