Woodco Renewable Energy continues to work with hotels in Ireland, supporting the Irish Hotel Federation each year at their annual AGM conference, being an associate member and exhibiting each year at the Original Irish Hotels AGM. Hotels and Leisure Centres are high users of energy with swimming pools, hot water, space heating, lighting and refrigeration making up significant costs associated with running a hotel.
Project Highlights
Clanard Court Hotel
The Clanard Court Hotel is an award-winning, family-run 4-star hotel in Athy, Co. Kildare, known for its luxury country style and top-rated Irish hospitality. It features 47 spacious rooms, the popular Bailey’s Bar & Bistro, the Revive Garden Spa & Beauty Rooms, resident alpacas, and is a premier wedding venue, just 50 minutes from Dublin.
Clanard Court Hotel wanted to reduce their rising heating and electricity bills. They wanted to engage with an experienced renewable energy company who offered multiple renewable solutions including for heating and electricity. Woodco Renewable Energy were an obvious choice for their experience and portfolio in the hospitality industry.
The Biomass Journey – The Beginning
The Clanard Court Hotel wanted to decarbonise their energy and heating was one of the biggest costs associated with running the hotel. With the Support Scheme for Renewable Heat grant from the SEAI, switching to biomass was the obvious solution. Biomass can be directly linked into a fossil fuel system, and the business can retain their fossil fuel boilers as backup. The Clanard Court Hotel had no internal space for a biomass system, Woodco offered an Eco-Cabin solution which is a pre-packaged plant room delivered to site containing boiler, buffer tank, pumps and ancillaries with a wood pellet fuel store adjacent.
The Biomass Journey – The Installation
The Clanard Court Hotel prepared an area for Woodco to place and install the Eco-cabin & Fuel store. This is an area typically at the rear of a property with access for fuel deliveries. Woodco then installed the cabin in this location and connected the pipework up to the heating system. The hotel was not disrupted during any of Woodco Renewable Energy’s renewable energy projects.
The biomass system is providing Clanard Court Hotel with savings of over €8,830 per annum (at current unit cost). If The Clanard Court was on a more expensive fossil fuel like oil or LPG, savings would be many times multiple of this.
Biomass Heating & Solar PV & at Clanard Court Hotel
Woodco Renewable Energy has worked with many hotels in Ireland on solar pv and biomass projects.
Biomass is grant aided and allows large heat users like hotels make huge savings on expensive fossil fuels like oil, lpg and gas. For biomass, they also avail of the Support Scheme for Renewable Heat from the SEAI and gets paid €28,316 for 15 years. Savings including the SSRH payment is €65,223 per annum. Biomass Fuel is also exempt from rising carbon tax.
Solar PV is also grant aided and helps businesses dramatically reduce their electricity bills. Solar PV earns savings of €16,800 per annum at The Clanard Court Hotel.
Why Clanard Court Hotel Chose Woodco Renewable Energy:
- Experienced company in renewable energy projects
- Proven expertise in hospitality solar & biomass installations
- End-to-end support with grant and ESB applications
- Reliable, on-time project delivery
- Outstanding health & safety track record
- 100% Irish-owned with dedicated local technical support
