From better economics to increased resiliency, microgrids offer many benefits to hotels.

Did you know an average guest room in a hotel uses about $2,200 in energy costs annually?

Locally sustainable power solutions make tremendous sense for the hospitality industry because hotels need to run 24 hours a day throughout the year without a break. Running a hotel isn’t easy, a hotel can’t afford a power outage even for a second. Increasingly, many such establishments have to deal with the consequences of an aging electric grid and a business like a hotel can’t fully rely on the grid alone.

A local sustainable power plant is an excellent solution for such businesses, it can help offset usage in hotels, especially during high usage times during the day, and can provide power during blackouts.

We all know the everyday running costs for any hotel are way too high, and a microgrid can also help in cost savings. Usually, tourist hotels are located in areas with high electricity prices. With the help of a local sustainable power plant, the hotel can get off the traditional power grid during peak hours and save on electricity bills.

Gridscape has been working in the hospitality sector for years and has developed insights from experience. Gridscape helps coordinate on-site, distributed energy generation assets to optimize costs; it also helps maintain power stability, including the option to detach from the utility grid to operate completely autonomously in “island mode.”

A microgrid can power a facility’s critical infrastructure in a more cost-effective manner by utilizing multiple distributed energy resources.

Also tourists today have become very conscious, they also want to stay at properties that are equally environmentally conscious and a microgrid can reduce carbon footprints and the property more appealing to environmentally conscious tourists.