Belmont House Hotel

The Best Western Belmont House Hotel is situated close to Leicester city centre and boasts 77 rooms with extensive conference and banqueting facilities, attracting business and leisure customers alike. General Manager Simon West had long sought ways the hotel could reduce it's energy consumption in the face of a prolonged period of price increases. “Although wholesale prices have recently stabilised, the last few years has still seen a massive cumulative hike in our energy costs” said Simon. “Our challenge was to find a way of reducing energy consumption without compromising comfort conditions, both in terms of heating and continuous hot water availability” he added. Simon contacted Total Energy Controls who arranged a free survey of the hotel’s heating systems and prepared a report with recommendations for installation of their Intelligent Energy Management Controls. “TEC installed their systems in September 2006. Since then we have observed a significant reduction in overall gas consumption exceeding 20% compared to the same period the previous year" said Simon. “During that time our contracted gas price actually went up, so even if one allows for fluctuations in weather, the impact of the TEC systems is all the more impressive, with no adverse effects on our residents' comfort.” A key benefit of installing TEC controls was the reduction of the hotel’s greenhouse gas emissions. Simon West was impressed. “Reducing gas consumption by over 20% supports the hotel's policy to reduce it's carbon footprint in all areas”. The Hotel was able to fund the TEC installation through an interest free loan available from the Carbon Trust, the organisation set up by DEFRA to support businesses and organisations wanting to reduce their Carbon Footprint. This was made possible under the Carbon Trusts’ “Action Energy” Programme, which also enables companies to claim Enhanced Capital Allowances against corporation tax when purchasing TEC systems. “Even had we opted to purchase the TEC systems directly, the high level of savings achieved meant that the payback would have been below 24 months”, Simon added.

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