First all-electric Premier Inn resort powered fully by renewables opens in Swindon

• New resort designed to function and not using a connection to mains gasoline provide, powered fully by renewable electrical energy. All new-build Premier Inns to be constructed to this specification from 2026.
• Learnings from design and operation to tell emissions-reducing retrofit of Premier Inn property – the aim being to take away mains gasoline connections from the property by 2040.
• Lodge to supply important financial advantages to Swindon, with every Premier Inn resort driving a mean of £3.3 million in visitor spending yearly.

Whitbread PLC, the UK’s largest hospitality group and proprietor of Premier Inn, immediately introduced the opening of Premier Inn Swindon City Centre – the primary of a brand new era of new-build Premier Inn resorts that can function with 100% renewable vitality.

Learnings from the resort’s design and operation will inform an emissions-reducing technique for Premier Inn’s resort property throughout the UK and Eire and can contribute to Whitbread’s goal to take away mains gasoline connections throughout its property by 2040 wherever doable.

The resort’s modern options embody:

• An energy-efficient air-to-water Mitsubishi Q-Ton CO2 Warmth Pump to warmth water, low vitality LED lighting with lighting controls and metering linked to a battery monitoring system with auto monitoring and concentrating on of vitality use.
• Photo voltaic photovoltaic panels put in on-site, with the resort to buy solely renewable electrical energy from the grid – in keeping with all of Whitbread’s owned operations within the UK and Germany.
• A constructing envelope designed to fulfill BREEAM ‘Wonderful’ requirements, utilizing an modern Passivhaus-influenced ‘cloth first’ design to optimise vitality use.
• Minimised warmth trade with the skin by way of the usage of pure daylight and re-use of warmth generated by electrical tools.
• Mechanical air flow with passive warmth restoration and an air supply warmth pump to maintain the constructing at an optimum temperature in all seasons.

Premier Inn, Swindon City Centre has been shortlisted for Constructed Setting Venture of the 12 months in Edie’s Internet Zero Awards.

Whitbread’s Power for Good sustainability programme is targeted on enabling folks to stay and work properly, whereas additionally defending the setting on which all of us rely.

Along with the environmental advantages of the brand new improvement, the Premier Inn Swindon City Centre resort opens its doorways with 46 crew members employed, lots of whom had been recruited from the native space and had been out of labor earlier than becoming a member of Whitbread.

As they readied the resort for opening, the crew undertook over 160 hours of volunteer work with the Salvation Military in Swindon to tidy, replant and repaint the gardens, workshop and emergency lodging at Sales space Home within the city.

The crew has additionally raised greater than £1,000 for Nice Ormond Avenue Hospital Youngsters’s Charity (GOSH), Whitbread’s nationwide charity companion within the UK, with fundraising ongoing.

Lodge web site

Premier Inn Swindon City Centre resort
43-44 Regent Avenue
Swindon, SN1 1JS
United Kingdom

+44 333 003 8101