We have been doing this in the Netherlands for the past 10 years. My employer, a 3PL, has 1142 solar panels on the roof powering the entire facility. And, they offer FREE EV charging to all employees.
Solar voltaic for charging EV's over a long period makes since because they are charging storage, otherwise they produce nearly worthless electricity. One cloud passing over a solar farm requires instant makeup typically from natural gas turbines running at service idle producing nearly zero electricity, but consuming 70% of the fuel they would at 100% output.
I'll bet the electric bill on that building for heat is ginormous. Natural gas would be more efficient but due to " WOKE" climate activists they want clean energy. The joke here is I'll bet the electricity comes from a coal, natural gas, or fossil fuel fired, electric plant. Nuclear, would be the only option that's clean. Solar and wind generators require mining for silver. Wind generators require gallons of oil & fibre glass. Not climate friendly.
The made a mistake on the title. It should be Hotel runs on mostly renewable energy. They still need grid power when the sky is covered with clouds. They repurposed an existing building and made it the most energy efficient building in USA. That got to be a blueprint for all repurposed buildings.
They got the title correct, the whole entire building just uses electricity, no gas or oil for heating or cooking. Just watch the video again and they point that out .
those parking solar panel roofs are brilliant... I think if all public parkings had these, it would be a game changer!!! not only it covers your car from sun and heat but rainy days... as long as they are built to last 100 years....
I've been say this for years. Other countries have such parking lots. Imagine if every Walmart, with their giant parking lots, Cosco, supermarkets, apartment complex ... I don't get the "solar farms" when parking land is already available.
The parking lot for Wal-Mart in Truth or consequences New Mexico has its parking lot covered in solar panels just like this hotel. They are awesome for shade like you said. I don't know how much electricity they produce vs the building consums. Also, not sure what had Wal-Mart decide to install them at this particular store. Maybe Federal and state incentives and a test site they were looking for to try this at in a location that has plenty of sunlight year-round. @@edwinrivera4735
Plus on snow days everyone but the snow plow guy is happy. Every little bit helps and reducing the need for snow equipment helps the overall picture, less chemical melting use, less emissions...
@@edwinrivera4735 because most parking is fully occupied by cars stuff like food shops generally only install enough parking due to the cost as they could expand the store size to offer more products so it’s covered most of the time so it’s very very inefficient stuff like a hotel quite often it’s not fully booked up so they have spaces available for days but a shop all generally have most spaces occupied
Something that was omitted from this story is the fact the lighting system uses PoE or Power over Ethernet. It allows data AND power to exist simultaneously and provide low voltage DC. This is one of the other factors that allows them to use so little power in conjunction WITH the heat-pump laundry and HVAC systems. Lights are on all the time in a commercial space and while they may not draw as much as a washing machine, they do draw large amounts over a longer period of time. PoE uses so little power the drain on their batteries/solar is minimal. There is also a cost factor when using PoE as the cost of ethernet cabling is less expensive vs copper and higher gauge wiring. The ease of installation and savings on labor during construction and the ability to easily reroute the system in a future building modification. Safety is another advantage of PoE. PoE should be everywhere. Homes should be included especially new builds.
I was thinking about this. Undecided with Matt Farrell has a great video on this building. Worth watching the extra few minutes for a deeper dive into its tech.
Power of ethernet is not safer just because it’s power over ethernet you could easily use his low voltage levels for a lighting system as some versions go up to about 60 V which is generally above most countries safety extra low-voltage band
As you said, some versions. Do you need 60 v to light a light in your home? No. Do you need 60 v to light up a hotel? No. LED can use as low as 3.5v typically 5 so ... Overall, it's safer than 120 or 240v bc 60 is half of 1 and 1/4 the other ... But thanks for the input about 1 thing completely missing the overall point. 🖖🏻 @@UKsystems
@@shawnduffy279 what I am saying is it’s not necessarily safer POE part it’s because of the voltage level that’s also above most countries legally allowable safety extra low-voltage so it would be treated the same as high-voltage electricity electric
It depends they have reliability issues at the moment with a lot of them so when you count for all the servicing and professional fixing it becomes a lot more cost saving in this case doesn’t matter when they produce their own energy
@@UKsystems Conventional Electric heating is 1 watt of heat created per 1 watt of electricity. That is physics. Heat pumps can move 4-5 watts of heat per watt of electricity. I think you need to brush up on your physics books.
@@Thebackson it is not exactly one more as there are losses in the form of things like noises or light sometimes in some form that you can’t see that heat pumps are not necessarily the way you say they are advertising cannot even go above the efficiency of standard electric heating
@@UKsystems what? LOL Light and noise? Idk what you're taking about light on a heat pump for but nothing you said in reply to Thebackson had anything to do with heat pumps. Just like you got my comment to talk about 1 thing I said. Heat humps are massively more efficient than a standard electric resistance water heater and HVAC. Look. If you're here to disprove all this tech, you got to come here with more than jibberish. Bring the facts. There are heat pump water heaters where the overall yearly cost is around $100. You can't get that with a "standard" WH and if you do, the cost of that unit will be as much or more than a HP WH.
There are not enough power plants capable of powering every Hotel in America. They have to use fossil fuel to even power what we have today. Ev's are not being powered and charged by solar/wind generators. 91% of power used in America comes from fossil fuels. Solar/wind generators supply very little useable power, are extremely expensive to build, use gallons and gallons of oil, a lot of land, and require expensive maintenance.
The title of the video should say runs on solar panels; it would have been more compelling. All hotels run on electricity. How else do the lights work in hotels.
However it implies it runs entirely on electricity but also this works without the solar panels due to how grid connection works for the systems so the panels could all fail and it would still work
@@UKsystems running entirely on electricity is only really something interesting in the USA because most buildings there rely on gas for heating. Running heating on electricity in Europe or South America or Asia is no story at all. But clearly the USA is so far behind that it’s an innovation for them. RUclips is a global platform and so videos really should have titles that resonate globally.
@@domlisboa4024Gas is honestly a luxury here. It's hard to find a new home in the US that still has gas pipes, because it's an extra piece of plumbing that must be installed during construction. Some new neighborhood streets don't even have gas lines running down the street. But I wanted gas because I prefer gas stoves for cooking. I also like having 2 methods of heating the home in the winter, in case there's a bad storm that traps me in the home while also taking out either gas or power.
Yeah many hotels are exclusively electric. Some larger ones use gas furnaces but just for common areas. I clicked just because of the title thinking "huh?"
We should’ve been doing this in the 70s into the 80s. Every building should have solar panels on the top of it or each building should be covered in a greenhouse./plants
Every solar panel that is not charging storage that is connected to the public power grid is razing the cost of electricity for everybody else. They save little fuel because gas turbine generators have to run at service idle producing near zero electricity, but consuming 70% of the fuel as at 100% full output in order to be at high avilabbitly to quickly make up when a cloud passes over a solar farm. If solar panels were saving fuel it would be promoted, but it is likely so small it would be an embarrassment if advertised. That's why its not and instead the advertisement is what percentage of nearly worthless electricity comes from solar and wind generation. These are both called wild AC and are not grid quality.
@@douglasengle2704 that is not always the case there are many gas power plants that fully shut off at sometimes of the day when there is enough things being put into the garage with stuff such as solar operators cause something that has pumped storage which uses water and hydroelectric system isn’t the most efficient, but it’s fairly good there were also options with grid Tola do not export anything but to Princes when there’s extra power available activate water heater or something like that
"the 70s into the 80s." President Carter pushed for clean energy development and industry in USA. Reagan crushed it when he came to presidecy. When he moved into the White House he immediately dismantled the solar panels from the WH. USA could have been the leader in clean energy in the world.
My dad was an executive there when it was Armstrong tire company and then into when it moved to pirelli in the 80s. As a kid I spent many Sunday afternoons there "going to work with my dad". He'd get ahead for the week on his work and I would draw pictures and leave them on the secretaries and sales guys desks for them to find on Monday morning. So many happy memories in that building. I'll have to make the trip back out east so that I can book a room there.
Note to CBS: seems like the title is chosen in error - it's basically reverse click bait, as it really undersells the content. That is, MANY hotels run entirely on electricity - what's special about this one is that it generates its own. Otherwise, great video, and huge props to the owner/architect!
re: his house. 60k install, 30% tax credit, paid for itself in 4 years? so dudes heating bill was 875 per month prior ? Am I missing something or is his house missing insulation?
@@Tracy_555 yes a blueprint for this building is pointless because no other building is going to be exactly like this unless they custom build it the solar system and Matt and everything that makes it special will be installed to industry standard and pre-agreed method so the blueprint does not really add much value
A certain bank has some solar parking canopys at their desert offices, when asked why they don't build more they said "we have to spread the limited green improvements budget around so all the facilities look like they're doing something"
"One-of-a-kind hotel runs entirely on electricity" I'd imagine that most hotels run entirely on electricity... I think they must mean "entirely on *renewable* electricity". It would hardly be the first to do that either, essentially all electricity here in Quebec is renewable.
When, not if, all hotels start to compete with customers who prefer to stay at hotels just like this, it will give this world a real chance at survival. Along with the inhabitants, too👍!
The planet isn't in trouble, human civilization is in big trouble. This sort of thing can really help "US", while making the planet more livable for everything else too.
The permit system is meant to be hard because these types of systems have to be designed incredibly correctly or its things like explosions and electrical issues
Honestly it all depends who is asking for the permit if is an important person with political or financial support it will go through 9.9 out of 10 times and those without it who meet the minimum requirements will get it at lower ratios than other with more power
Here in eastern europe a hotel that works entirely on electric power has been a standard for like 20 years and more, and the sustainability has been growing in the past years quite rapidly.
I've driven by this building many times, I always thought of it as ugly... but it's nice at least that the building found a new purpose instead of being demolished...
The issue is it’s not good for the environment when people replace the panels for the latest technology because I see some people replace their DIY set up every two years for a slightly more efficient panel but in this case if it’s a practically it is very good and a DIY approaches even better if applied safely because it saves so much money
I mean there is also natural gas that hotels do use and if so then it wouldn't be "entirely on electricity" and then there fossil fuels from power plants. This way they reduce the amount of energy they have to get from a grid that may include fossil fuels.
May I make a Suggestion? Put Guide wires up on that roof, for fall protection harnesses, before someone gets tragically blown off that roof. Also the should have built Curb walls around the edges, for worker safety and to prevent the wind from up lifting and flexing the solar panels. It’s a bit too late for that now.
However the hospitality missions are not necessity house Millia thing of preference a lot of the time as it’s not always central to living so if they can be reduced that is good as the things that are central are harder to reduce it on
People say buildings already run off electricity then failed to realise gas heating gas hot water heaters and gas cooking. If you work out how many kilowatts of each energy sources use between the electric and gas the majority end of them being on gas you need to sing that because building has a light, but it doesn’t mean it’s 100% electric.
Most buildings use some sort of fossil fuels for heating water and the air (like natural gas) and their kitchen, while this building runs on only electricity! All electric buildings are pretty rare at this size.
All commercial buildings would do well to install solar panels in the roof and parking lots. Especially the Data centers that consume the most electricity. Residential use of solar on roofs and small turbines in the yard should be normalized to minimize the use of Industrial turbines and solar panels on productive farmland that feeds the needs of the nations and 3rd worlds.
Data centres can’t generally install solar panels because they slightly increased the fire risk. They also have thermal designs even into the roof because of the heat generated so it can potentially be problematic to install them.
People are doing this all over the US, it will be totally normal in 10 years. Weird AF to have gas running into your home and leaking out your appliances all day when you think about it.
What a joke. A massive concrete building surrounded by a huge, paved over parking lot . . . this is the ideal building of the future? Only if your idea of the future is a nightmarish Blade Runner hellscape.
They’re saying it’s the building of the future because it’s reusing an old building and making it better for the environment. They could’ve rebuilt it, but there’s no point when there’s already a building they can use.
It could have a practical purpose such as a place that smoke fans are installed so it’s meant to be bigger so they can put the fan higher up or something
Not sure but you might have been misheard the video is kind of confusing in his it presents the info. The $60,000 was for his home system which he said inspired his efforts for the hotel. It was over 30 million for the entire renovation if the hotel.
The title of this video is beyond the pale. EVERYTHING ALREADY ALL RUNS ON ELECTRICITY. FFS. This hotel runs on SOLAR power. That's what the title should say.
So glad to see they got rid of all those kerosene lamps and coal fired boilers. Welcome to the 20th century. Buildings have been running on electricity for over a hundred years. One of a kind indeed. This is what the media considers “news”. A hotel runs on electricity. Super cool. Never would have expected that. LOL!
The fact Americans think heat pumps and triple glazing is a "game changer" is laughable. In the UK all new homes have triple glazed windows and most new homes have solar roofs.
People are desperate to believe something, anything, will make their lives better. The reality is, we will still have miserable lives, just with heat pumps and triple glazed windows.
redevelopment is definitely a part of the construction industry. Those solar panels didn't install themselves. Same with the covered parking. That's all new construction, as was much of the interior renovation.
What a wonderful approach. Those solar carpark canopies are fabulous, but, like so many such installations, miss a trick; they don't cover the vehicular circulatory spaces (in-between) the canopies, thus the potential for extra ⚡ generation is missed out on. Tesla appears to be trying this out at their Grunheide Giga factory in Germany with a 1MWh generation capacity.
We have been doing this in the Netherlands for the past 10 years. My employer, a 3PL, has 1142 solar panels on the roof powering the entire facility. And, they offer FREE EV charging to all employees.
very cool!!!!
@@YesItsReallyKeith Yes very cool, some would even consider it “woke”!
@@MikeYoungeasytravel No one considers that woke
@@MikeYoungeasytravelsaid no one ever. Now if you’re discriminating in your hiring process then that is “woke”.
Solar voltaic for charging EV's over a long period makes since because they are charging storage, otherwise they produce nearly worthless electricity. One cloud passing over a solar farm requires instant makeup typically from natural gas turbines running at service idle producing nearly zero electricity, but consuming 70% of the fuel they would at 100% output.
He paid $1 million for that building. That’s a deal these days.
That blew my mind when I heard it. There are literally
Yea but over 30 mil to renovate.
Think you missed the 30mill for renovations part
@@AnotherInternetRandodude a 1000 sq ft shack house in my town goes for 1 mill. Or Maybe a 1500 sq ft townhouse
Multiple cheers to developer for saving historic building!
But it's so ugly...
It's historically been an eyesore off of the side of I-95 for decades.
We had a similar building in Greenville,SC.Thankfully it's gone.
I'll bet the electric bill on that building for heat is ginormous. Natural gas would be more efficient but due to "
WOKE" climate activists they want clean energy. The joke here is I'll bet the electricity comes from a coal,
natural gas, or fossil fuel fired, electric plant. Nuclear, would be the only option that's clean. Solar and wind generators require mining for silver. Wind generators require gallons of oil & fibre glass. Not climate friendly.
The made a mistake on the title. It should be Hotel runs on mostly renewable energy. They still need grid power when the sky is covered with clouds. They repurposed an existing building and made it the most energy efficient building in USA. That got to be a blueprint for all repurposed buildings.
However, they probably export power a lot of the time so if you think about it, they probably generated enough at the metres on zero
@@UKsystemsexactly! On a grid that they are mostly exporting too, what's borrowing a little here or there from other renewable sources?
What part of BATTERY! do you not understand. Storage is the key to having zero problems with clouds in the sky.
Most energy efficient luxury hotel. I'm not sure about most energy efficient building.
They got the title correct, the whole entire building just uses electricity, no gas or oil for heating or cooking. Just watch the video again and they point that out .
Thank goodness we were finally able to get electricity into hotels. The candle light gets old.
So glad CBS has shared Becker’s amazing accomplishment, and thankful to have had a tour of too!
My father worked in that building for 20 years before retiring as it changed from Armstrong to Pirelli tire.
My dad too!! 😊
those parking solar panel roofs are brilliant... I think if all public parkings had these, it would be a game changer!!! not only it covers your car from sun and heat but rainy days... as long as they are built to last 100 years....
I've been say this for years. Other countries have such parking lots. Imagine if every Walmart, with their giant parking lots, Cosco, supermarkets, apartment complex ... I don't get the "solar farms" when parking land is already available.
The parking lot for Wal-Mart in Truth or consequences New Mexico has its parking lot covered in solar panels just like this hotel. They are awesome for shade like you said. I don't know how much electricity they produce vs the building consums. Also, not sure what had Wal-Mart decide to install them at this particular store. Maybe Federal and state incentives and a test site they were looking for to try this at in a location that has plenty of sunlight year-round. @@edwinrivera4735
Plus on snow days everyone but the snow plow guy is happy. Every little bit helps and reducing the need for snow equipment helps the overall picture, less chemical melting use, less emissions...
Reno could use the from the sun in the summer and the snow in the winter.
@@edwinrivera4735 because most parking is fully occupied by cars stuff like food shops generally only install enough parking due to the cost as they could expand the store size to offer more products so it’s covered most of the time so it’s very very inefficient stuff like a hotel quite often it’s not fully booked up so they have spaces available for days but a shop all generally have most spaces occupied
Looks like an IRS building.
Something that was omitted from this story is the fact the lighting system uses PoE or Power over Ethernet.
It allows data AND power to exist simultaneously and provide low voltage DC. This is one of the other factors that allows them to use so little power in conjunction WITH the heat-pump laundry and HVAC systems.
Lights are on all the time in a commercial space and while they may not draw as much as a washing machine, they do draw large amounts over a longer period of time. PoE uses so little power the drain on their batteries/solar is minimal.
There is also a cost factor when using PoE as the cost of ethernet cabling is less expensive vs copper and higher gauge wiring. The ease of installation and savings on labor during construction and the ability to easily reroute the system in a future building modification.
Safety is another advantage of PoE.
PoE should be everywhere. Homes should be included especially new builds.
I was thinking about this.
Undecided with Matt Farrell has a great video on this building. Worth watching the extra few minutes for a deeper dive into its tech.
Power of ethernet is not safer just because it’s power over ethernet you could easily use his low voltage levels for a lighting system as some versions go up to about 60 V which is generally above most countries safety extra low-voltage band
As you said, some versions. Do you need 60 v to light a light in your home? No. Do you need 60 v to light up a hotel? No. LED can use as low as 3.5v typically 5 so ...
Overall, it's safer than 120 or 240v bc 60 is half of 1 and 1/4 the other ...
But thanks for the input about 1 thing completely missing the overall point. 🖖🏻 @@UKsystems
@@shawnduffy279 what I am saying is it’s not necessarily safer POE part it’s because of the voltage level that’s also above most countries legally allowable safety extra low-voltage so it would be treated the same as high-voltage electricity electric
Specifically, it's Digital Electricity, which does offer higher voltages, but is safe b/c it's fault managed power.
4 years is an insanely short amount of time for solar payback. Kudos to this man!
Heat pump water heaters are amazing. They are crazy efficient. the cost savings of using them are amazingly overlooked.
It depends they have reliability issues at the moment with a lot of them so when you count for all the servicing and professional fixing it becomes a lot more cost saving in this case doesn’t matter when they produce their own energy
Also electric heating is nearly 100% efficient. A heat pump cannot beat that very easily because of physics.
@@UKsystems Conventional Electric heating is 1 watt of heat created per 1 watt of electricity. That is physics. Heat pumps can move 4-5 watts of heat per watt of electricity. I think you need to brush up on your physics books.
@@Thebackson it is not exactly one more as there are losses in the form of things like noises or light sometimes in some form that you can’t see that heat pumps are not necessarily the way you say they are advertising cannot even go above the efficiency of standard electric heating
@@UKsystems what? LOL
Light and noise?
Idk what you're taking about light on a heat pump for but nothing you said in reply to Thebackson had anything to do with heat pumps. Just like you got my comment to talk about 1 thing I said.
Heat humps are massively more efficient than a standard electric resistance water heater and HVAC.
Look. If you're here to disprove all this tech, you got to come here with more than jibberish. Bring the facts. There are heat pump water heaters where the overall yearly cost is around $100. You can't get that with a "standard" WH and if you do, the cost of that unit will be as much or more than a HP WH.
This should be the blueprint for every hotel, renovated or new, in the 21st century.
There are not enough power plants capable of powering every Hotel in America. They have to use fossil fuel to
even power what we have today. Ev's are not being powered and charged by solar/wind generators. 91% of
power used in America comes from fossil fuels. Solar/wind generators supply very little useable power, are extremely expensive to build, use gallons and gallons of oil, a lot of land, and require expensive maintenance.
The title of the video should say runs on solar panels; it would have been more compelling. All hotels run on electricity. How else do the lights work in hotels.
However it implies it runs entirely on electricity but also this works without the solar panels due to how grid connection works for the systems so the panels could all fail and it would still work
@@UKsystems running entirely on electricity is only really something interesting in the USA because most buildings there rely on gas for heating. Running heating on electricity in Europe or South America or Asia is no story at all. But clearly the USA is so far behind that it’s an innovation for them. RUclips is a global platform and so videos really should have titles that resonate globally.
@@domlisboa4024Gas is honestly a luxury here. It's hard to find a new home in the US that still has gas pipes, because it's an extra piece of plumbing that must be installed during construction. Some new neighborhood streets don't even have gas lines running down the street.
But I wanted gas because I prefer gas stoves for cooking. I also like having 2 methods of heating the home in the winter, in case there's a bad storm that traps me in the home while also taking out either gas or power.
Yeah many hotels are exclusively electric. Some larger ones use gas furnaces but just for common areas. I clicked just because of the title thinking "huh?"
candles. Thats what those poors use 😂
This hotel is beautiful inside and out. Quiet and comfortable to stay in.
We should’ve been doing this in the 70s into the 80s. Every building should have solar panels on the top of it or each building should be covered in a greenhouse./plants
Every solar panel that is not charging storage that is connected to the public power grid is razing the cost of electricity for everybody else. They save little fuel because gas turbine generators have to run at service idle producing near zero electricity, but consuming 70% of the fuel as at 100% full output in order to be at high avilabbitly to quickly make up when a cloud passes over a solar farm. If solar panels were saving fuel it would be promoted, but it is likely so small it would be an embarrassment if advertised. That's why its not and instead the advertisement is what percentage of nearly worthless electricity comes from solar and wind generation. These are both called wild AC and are not grid quality.
@@douglasengle2704 FUD
Electric solar panels were not available in the 70s and 80s. They have been available since 2000.
@@douglasengle2704 that is not always the case there are many gas power plants that fully shut off at sometimes of the day when there is enough things being put into the garage with stuff such as solar operators cause something that has pumped storage which uses water and hydroelectric system isn’t the most efficient, but it’s fairly good there were also options with grid Tola do not export anything but to Princes when there’s extra power available activate water heater or something like that
"the 70s into the 80s." President Carter pushed for clean energy development and industry in USA. Reagan crushed it when he came to presidecy. When he moved into the White House he immediately dismantled the solar panels from the WH. USA could have been the leader in clean energy in the world.
No one was coming from Europe to look at that
Hotel Marcel MEP Engineering completed by LN Consulting based out of Burlington VT and Northampton MA.
My dad was an executive there when it was Armstrong tire company and then into when it moved to pirelli in the 80s. As a kid I spent many Sunday afternoons there "going to work with my dad". He'd get ahead for the week on his work and I would draw pictures and leave them on the secretaries and sales guys desks for them to find on Monday morning. So many happy memories in that building. I'll have to make the trip back out east so that I can book a room there.
Note to CBS: seems like the title is chosen in error - it's basically reverse click bait, as it really undersells the content. That is, MANY hotels run entirely on electricity - what's special about this one is that it generates its own.
Otherwise, great video, and huge props to the owner/architect!
truth be told, I wouldn't have opened it if it said "hotel runs on solar"
Actually many hotels have gas heating, and their restaurants have gas appliances. So no many hotels do NOT run on electricity.
WTF Nope, Gas both piped and a big LPG tank outside is very important to the industry.
CT also has some of the most expensive electricity in the US.
The efficiency of electric appliances make up for the cost per kW. Of course if you have solar it’s free either way.
Yeah just saying it makes more business sense in CT than other places. CT I think is approaching $0.40/kWh?
re: his house. 60k install, 30% tax credit, paid for itself in 4 years? so dudes heating bill was 875 per month prior ? Am I missing something or is his house missing insulation?
This is amazing, he is giving the blueprint for many others to replicate.
You really don’t need a blueprint for this as it’s all electrical it’s standardised electrical wiring and systems anyway
@@UKsystems blueprint means the model to follow, not an actual blueprint
@@Tracy_555 yes a blueprint for this building is pointless because no other building is going to be exactly like this unless they custom build it the solar system and Matt and everything that makes it special will be installed to industry standard and pre-agreed method so the blueprint does not really add much value
@@UKsystems blueprint is a figure of speech…
This is because of the outragous cost of eversouce's delivery and usage charge, let's be honest here.
This building is brutally beautiful.
The government shouldn't be subsidizing rich people's HVAC and water heating systems.
Looks like an off the ground prison from the outside.
A certain bank has some solar parking canopys at their desert offices, when asked why they don't build more they said "we have to spread the limited green improvements budget around so all the facilities look like they're doing something"
A hotel runs entirely on electricity? Is that what the title says?
Thank gawd I don't have to bring my *_"candles"_* with me when staying in hotels now, modernization has finally reached the hospitality industry!!!!
Looks like a Soviet piece of architecture
"One-of-a-kind hotel runs entirely on electricity"
I'd imagine that most hotels run entirely on electricity... I think they must mean "entirely on *renewable* electricity". It would hardly be the first to do that either, essentially all electricity here in Quebec is renewable.
Seems like that voided floor in the middle could have been a cool rooftop garden where they grow food and use the compost
When, not if, all hotels start to compete with customers who prefer to stay at hotels just like this, it will give this world a real chance at survival. Along with the inhabitants, too👍!
The planet isn't in trouble, human civilization is in big trouble.
This sort of thing can really help "US", while making the planet more livable for everything else too.
Amazing I gotta give it to this guy, idk how he pull this off because in CT this would be extremely difficult just be able to get trough permits 🎉👏🏼👏🏼
The permit system is meant to be hard because these types of systems have to be designed incredibly correctly or its things like explosions and electrical issues
Honestly it all depends who is asking for the permit if is an important person with political or financial support it will go through 9.9 out of 10 times and those without it who meet the minimum requirements will get it at lower ratios than other with more power
that building looks like a Gov Post Office, Cold and Square
That is not a lot of solar panels, not on the roof, not on the car park. Sounds like a PR stunt
I actually enjoy looking at this wonderful piece of brutalist architecture whenever I drive by!
Title is missing “solar”.
Phew thought it ran on potatoes or beef.
Here in eastern europe a hotel that works entirely on electric power has been a standard for like 20 years and more, and the sustainability has been growing in the past years quite rapidly.
what an articulate man. I wish him prosper business
I grew up near this eye sore, I would have never thought it would play a important role on sustainable energy.
all hotels run on electricity - I think you mean runs on solar
It’s very cool. But what an ugly building to save and refit!
It’s amazing!
wtf is this video title mean even😭
I've driven by this building many times, I always thought of it as ugly... but it's nice at least that the building found a new purpose instead of being demolished...
As a DIY solar user, I am glad to see more folks taking advantages of the Sun 🤗
The issue is it’s not good for the environment when people replace the panels for the latest technology because I see some people replace their DIY set up every two years for a slightly more efficient panel but in this case if it’s a practically it is very good and a DIY approaches even better if applied safely because it saves so much money
I like my hotels in 21st Century America, not 1980s Soviet Union
the video title is weird… all hotels technically “run entirely on Electricity” 😅🤔
Runs entirely on electricity? Are there steam powered hotels around that area? What else would a hotel run on?
I mean there is also natural gas that hotels do use and if so then it wouldn't be "entirely on electricity" and then there fossil fuels from power plants. This way they reduce the amount of energy they have to get from a grid that may include fossil fuels.
Natural Gas. Probably for heating, water heaters and in the onsite Kitchen for cooking.
Right, in this case there's plenty of hotels in the south that run entirely on electricity. 😂
Proud to see my old home town of New Haven make the news…in a good way. Go UConn!
Amazing simply amazing
Looks like Coventry in the UK
What’s up with the title?????
May I make a Suggestion? Put Guide wires up on that roof, for fall protection harnesses, before someone gets tragically blown off that roof. Also the should have built Curb walls around the edges, for worker safety and to prevent the wind from up lifting and flexing the solar panels. It’s a bit too late for that now.
it looks like a US embassy complex. very cool what he's doing
The lady says 1% if emissions is from hospitality. Not sure how much of a dent a portion of 1% can really make
However the hospitality missions are not necessity house Millia thing of preference a lot of the time as it’s not always central to living so if they can be reduced that is good as the things that are central are harder to reduce it on
Something is missing in the headline....
How do they get the electricity?
What else should you run a hotel on?
People say buildings already run off electricity then failed to realise gas heating gas hot water heaters and gas cooking. If you work out how many kilowatts of each energy sources use between the electric and gas the majority end of them being on gas you need to sing that because building has a light, but it doesn’t mean it’s 100% electric.
In many countries gas lines aren't common. No hotels use gas for anything where I live.
@@logitech4873 however, where this hotel is they do use them
@@logitech4873 Well this is about a hotel in the US, and CBS is a US-based news channel...
Don't ALL hotels run on Electricity ha ha ha ha ha ha
Beautiful Brutalist Building. It's so Futuristic.
Love this unique building and love its rebirth!
Ugly building.
Connections, 30 millions and federal state tax exemption will get you anything 😂
Jobs, technology, sustainability, and a new source of taxes.
The building is beautiful. Admittedly, I do like the brutal architecture as well as other types of architecture.
most hotels run on electricity this title is silly
Thankyou , doesnt make sense
Most buildings use some sort of fossil fuels for heating water and the air (like natural gas) and their kitchen, while this building runs on only electricity! All electric buildings are pretty rare at this size.
@@viktorkoves611 Not in the southern US which do not use heaters.
But they do cook food and prob dry laundry with fossil fuels, right?
@@Distress.
Do your restaurants and professional kitchens still cook with gas?
lived in new haven for years and never knew what that building was lol
That building is beautiful and full if character ❤
Does that mean I can finally stop bringing candles with me when I travel?
All commercial buildings would do well to install solar panels in the roof and parking lots. Especially the Data centers that consume the most electricity.
Residential use of solar on roofs and small turbines in the yard should be normalized to minimize the use of Industrial turbines and solar panels on productive farmland that feeds the needs of the nations and 3rd worlds.
Data centres can’t generally install solar panels because they slightly increased the fire risk. They also have thermal designs even into the roof because of the heat generated so it can potentially be problematic to install them.
That building is immediately identifiable if you know it.
People are doing this all over the US, it will be totally normal in 10 years. Weird AF to have gas running into your home and leaking out your appliances all day when you think about it.
Why is this surprising?
Been past this building quite a few times. I think more people care about the damn Ikea next-door.
That is a really ugly building.
I wish more grocery stores in my state were required to install solar panels and would add parking space covers with solar panels.
What a joke. A massive concrete building surrounded by a huge, paved over parking lot . . . this is the ideal building of the future? Only if your idea of the future is a nightmarish Blade Runner hellscape.
They’re saying it’s the building of the future because it’s reusing an old building and making it better for the environment. They could’ve rebuilt it, but there’s no point when there’s already a building they can use.
It’s an eye sore
Electricity, huh? You don't say.
It may be "Artistic" but that empty space in the middle of the hotel is Wasted Space.
It could have a practical purpose such as a place that smoke fans are installed so it’s meant to be bigger so they can put the fan higher up or something
But what produces the power to give to the building?
Ummm who wants to tell them 😂
Someone finally gets it👍
Someone went out of their way to avoid that blue building to the left.
Not sure but you might have been misheard the video is kind of confusing in his it presents the info. The $60,000 was for his home system which he said inspired his efforts for the hotel. It was over 30 million for the entire renovation if the hotel.
The title of this video is beyond the pale. EVERYTHING ALREADY ALL RUNS ON ELECTRICITY. FFS. This hotel runs on SOLAR power. That's what the title should say.
Most commercial buildings use gas for heating hot water and cooking that’s the majority of kilowatts of energy usage
It is the ugliest building in Connecticut
why would anyone pay to stay in a place that looks like a correctional facility
So glad to see they got rid of all those kerosene lamps and coal fired boilers. Welcome to the 20th century. Buildings have been running on electricity for over a hundred years. One of a kind indeed. This is what the media considers “news”. A hotel runs on electricity. Super cool. Never would have expected that. LOL!
The fact Americans think heat pumps and triple glazing is a "game changer" is laughable. In the UK all new homes have triple glazed windows and most new homes have solar roofs.
People are desperate to believe something, anything, will make their lives better. The reality is, we will still have miserable lives, just with heat pumps and triple glazed windows.
I love brutalist architecture. Glad to see it will be around for a while longer.
The Connecticut electricity grid runs on natural gas. So this is a natural gas powered hotel with extra steps.
One-of-a-kind hotel runs entirely on electricity? The hotels in my country are powered by steam and coal. This is revolutionary!
Operating a building is not the construction industry.
You may have missed the main point.
the issue is building a new building as opposed to recycling older buildings...
@@YesItsReallyKeith ok
redevelopment is definitely a part of the construction industry.
Those solar panels didn't install themselves. Same with the covered parking.
That's all new construction, as was much of the interior renovation.
Fascinating story, Michelle!!
How did he get those rebates on his house solar? I looked into it and found the income limits to qualify has to be below his income.
What a wonderful approach. Those solar carpark canopies are fabulous, but, like so many such installations, miss a trick; they don't cover the vehicular circulatory spaces (in-between) the canopies, thus the potential for extra ⚡ generation is missed out on. Tesla appears to be trying this out at their Grunheide Giga factory in Germany with a 1MWh generation capacity.
It also looks like a prison....