GOLDEN, COLO.—Lewis Properties announced that it has installed solar panels on its award-winning Colorado-based hotels—the Golden Hotel in Golden and the Boulder Creek Quality Inn & Suites in Boulder—making them the first solar powered hotels in their respective cities. The installations, to be completed this month, will make a significant impact on decreasing the carbon footprint of the hotels. Owners Burt and Andria Lewis stated, “This was an easy decision for us; we are consistently trying to enhance our green practices and what better way to do so than by going solar.”
The 62-room Golden Hotel features a 160-panel, 33.6-kilowatt system, and the 46-room Boulder Creek Quality Inn & Suites features a 112-panel, 23.5-kilowatt system. The solar panels are expected to last more than 25 years and reduce annual CO2 emissions by more than 73 tons.
Both properties feature myriad green initiatives. The Boulder Creek Quality Inn & Suites has dual flush toilets, which use 44 percent less water than traditional toilets. The property also recently became a zero waste property by enhancing its current recycling program and added composting. The Golden Hotel completed an energy efficiency audit, installed motion censored lighting in public restrooms, storage units and fitness room and has a back-of-the-house recycling program. Both hotels offer dispensers in guestrooms, reducing the amount of plastic bottles and partially used bar soap typically sent to landfills.
Guests will be able to see the difference the hotels are making first hand, as the properties will feature a monitoring system in their lobbies, which will show the daily savings, as well as historical data.
“The Boulder Creek Quality Inn & Suites and The Golden Hotel solar installations demonstrate Colorado’s leading role in renewable energy not only to residents, but to the thousands of visitors from around the world who stay at these wonderful accommodations,” said Heath Mackay of Namasté Solar. “Namasté Solar was honored to be chosen for these important projects.”
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