Incremental Change: Embraces Solar Technology
Autor: jralones • July 23, 2013 • Essay • 372 Words (2 Pages) • 1,222 Views
Incremental change: Embraces solar technologyThe Premier Inn has embraced solar photovoltaic technology, installing arrays at its hotels across the South of England. Whitbread, Premier Inn’s parent company hopes that its solar initiative will help it realise its ambition of achieving a 26 percent reduction in its carbon emissions be 2020.
It will spend some money at first, but it can save cost every year. It can enhance the corporate image; energy conservation is the concept of the mainstream of the current society. This small change, not only can bring practical benefits to the premier Inn, but can also enhance its corporate image.
This technology has been very mature, very high conversion rate of solar loading, the normal operation of the energy requirements to meet the hotel, and the use of solar energy is very long life, it can be said the one-time investment. Install solar Hotel in the south of England, in line with the conditions of use. The huge amount of one-time investment, but little time to plan to install in 2020, so the annual amount of money invested, and will not affect the normal flow of funds to the hotel
Premier inn is the first hotel to install solar on a large scale the corporate image of the hotel, which has played a great deal of publicity, can be said that the energy savings in the hotel at the same time get enterprise image promotion for free.
Premier inn have been advocating energy saving point of view, some measures also reflects the energy saving. In 12/2008. Premier inn opened a Britain's Greenest Hotel, installed energy saving light bulbs in all hotels and installing water efficient showers.
Premier inn need change the way of energy supply, and need let customers know solar energy can provide enough power; it will not affect normal power used.
Some people may not be able to accept the recommendations of the energy-saving, because the need to spend a lot of money to install energy-saving
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