Edinburgh Premier Inn becomes first battery-powered hotel in UK

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&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;01&sol;2&period;11241795&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-123370" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;01&sol;2&period;11241795&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Premier Inn&comma; Edinburgh&comma; Battery Powered" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"337" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An Edinburgh hotel has become the first in the UK to be battery-powered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Gyle Premier Inn at Edinburgh Park has installed a five-tonne battery which will charge from the national grid during off-peak periods and power the 200-room site for several hours each day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 3m3 lithium ion battery is expected to save the hotel £20&comma;000 a year on its energy bill&comma; and is able to power the whole venue&comma; including the restaurant&comma; for up to three hours at a time after a two-hour charge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Premier Inn’s parent company Whitbread said the trial of the battery storage technology will help its commitment to halve its carbon emissions by 2025&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cian Hatton&comma; Whitbread’s head of energy and environment&comma; said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Batteries are of course everyday items&comma; more commonly associated with powering small household goods like the TV remote control&comma; so it’s incredibly exciting to launch the UK’s first battery-powered hotel – an innovation which will save money&comma; ensure security of supply and support the transition to a more flexible grid&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The hotel chain joins companies including B&amp&semi;Q and Veolia&comma; which both installed lithium ion battery power systems in 2018&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Electricity company E&period;ON has supplied and installed the technology at the hotel and will be remotely managing the battery’s workload and efficiency from its energy management centre in Glasgow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;01&sol;sembo-116967-hotelImageFull&period;aspx&lowbar;id2442226&lowbar;full1&lowbar;resizeModeFitInside&lowbar;formatSettingsjpegquality-90-image&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-123369" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;01&sol;sembo-116967-hotelImageFull&period;aspx&lowbar;id2442226&lowbar;full1&lowbar;resizeModeFitInside&lowbar;formatSettingsjpegquality-90-image&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Premier Inn&comma; Edinburgh&comma; Battery Powered" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"350" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Richard Oakley&comma; customer accounts director at E&period;ON&comma; said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Gyle at Edinburgh Park is already an energy efficient hotel thanks to the remote monitoring and management of its systems from our control centre in Glasgow&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By adding the flexibility of battery storage we can also help Whitbread to upgrade to the full-board option of drawing electricity from the grid when prices are low&comma; storing that energy for use at peak times and having the ability to sell it back to the grid to help balance supply and demand on the network&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Premier Inn is showing how hotel chains and large power users can further save money&comma; reduce their carbon footprint and support the development of a lower-carbon&comma; smarter energy grid in the UK&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11fec7091">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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