A hotel that runs around the clock
The Gatwick White House Hotel is a 2-star property a few minutes from Gatwick Airport. It puts up leisure guests, business travellers, and passengers who just need a bed near the terminal before an early flight. That means it never really switches off. Rooms lit, heating on, kitchen and laundry running, guests checking in at all hours. All of that pulls a lot of electricity, and the bill had climbed to a point where the owners couldn't ignore it. They wanted the cost under control, and they wanted to do right by the environment while they were at it. The problem was simple to say and harder to solve.
A power bill on a hotel that can't go dark
Electricity had become one of the hotel's biggest running costs. On a business with thin margins and rising energy prices, that's the kind of number that eats into everything else. But a hotel can't cut its bill the easy way. You can't dim the lobby, switch off the heating, or empty half the rooms to save power. Guests expect everything working, day and night. So the question wasn't whether to act. It was how to take a serious chunk out of that bill without a single guest noticing the work was even happening.
An 18 kW system, fitted around a live hotel
We sized the system to the hotel's real demand, not a brochure number, and ran the whole job end to end. Site visit, design, install and commissioning, all handled by us and scheduled so guests and staff carried on as normal. Nobody's stay was disrupted while the panels went up.
- 44 × 410W panels (18 kW total), sized to the hotel's daily electricity use
- Fitted around a working hotel with guests in residence, no disruption to their stay
- Handled end to end, from first site visit through to commissioning
The electricity bill cut by nearly two thirds
The hotel's electricity bill dropped by 64%. Money that used to go straight to the grid now stays in the business, ready to go back into rooms, service and guests. On a building that runs every hour of every day, the panels earn their keep from the moment the sun comes up. Over the system’s 25-year life that is roughly £68,000 to £90,000, on an install that typically pays for itself in five to six years.
Generation and saving figures on this page are estimates, modelled from the system size and a typical UK yield. They are not meter readings. Your own figures depend on your roof, your usage and the weather in any given year, and we confirm them from a real assessment rather than a model.
