One-of-a-kind hotel runs entirely on electricity, showing the future of sustainable hospitality
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- A New Haven developer has a new tool in the fight against climate change. The Hotel Marcel runs entirely on electricity and creates no emissions, becoming the only hotel to earn a platinum rating from the Energy Department. Michelle Miller reports on the one-of-a-kind establishment.
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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
@@aaronboggs5799dude a 1000 sq ft shack house in my town goes for 1 mill. Or Maybe a 1500 sq ft townhouse
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.
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.
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.
Looks like an IRS building.
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. CZcams 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 😂
4 years is an insanely short amount of time for solar payback. Kudos to this man!
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
So glad CBS has shared Becker’s amazing accomplishment, and thankful to have had a tour of too!
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.
No one was coming from Europe to look at that
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.
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.
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.
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
This hotel is beautiful inside and out. Quiet and comfortable to stay in.
Hotel Marcel MEP Engineering completed by LN Consulting based out of Burlington VT and Northampton MA.
This is because of the outragous cost of eversouce's delivery and usage charge, let's be honest here.
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?
Thank gawd I don't have to bring my *_"candles"_* with me when staying in hotels now, modernization has finally reached the hospitality industry!!!!
The government shouldn't be subsidizing rich people's HVAC and water heating systems.
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…
My father worked in that building for 20 years before retiring as it changed from Armstrong to Pirelli tire.
My dad too!! 😊
That building has stood for decades
I had eggs for lunch
@@stevebishop1161 good! Staying low carb! Good guy
"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.
That is not a lot of solar panels, not on the roof, not on the car park. Sounds like a PR stunt
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.
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.
Connections, 30 millions and federal state tax exemption will get you anything 😂
Jobs, technology, sustainability, and a new source of taxes.
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....
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
that building looks like a Gov Post Office, Cold and Square
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?
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"
Seems like that voided floor in the middle could have been a cool rooftop garden where they grow food and use the compost
The exterior of the hotel is fugly. It's reminiscent of a US prison/Russian govt building.
It’s called Brutalist Architecture. I’m quite fond of it
@@johnthomas2970 it still looks like prison though and Russian government buildings because they use that style of architecture
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
Looks like an off the ground prison from the outside.
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.
Electricity, huh? You don't say.
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. 😂
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 actually enjoy looking at this wonderful piece of brutalist architecture whenever I drive by!
Proud to see my old home town of New Haven make the news…in a good way. Go UConn!
Looks like a Soviet piece of architecture
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...
most hotels run on electricity this title is silly
Thankyou , doesnt make sense
Right? I was trying to figure out what buildings used to run on 🤔
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?
It’s very cool. But what an ugly building to save and refit!
It’s amazing!
all hotels run on electricity - I think you mean runs on solar
the video title is weird… all hotels technically “run entirely on Electricity” 😅🤔
why would anyone pay to stay in a place that looks like a correctional facility
The entire USA can run on Solar power and use batteries for storage on solar farms. Easily done but big oil and pharma would never let you. Geothermal can be miles deep and heat+cool cities. We have the technology but we all know who's making the dirty money
There’s not really a lot of copper left in the world so copper pipe will probably be installed for geothermal solutions to provide to multiple buildings which wouldn’t be great for the environment and factory storage has its faults including big fire issues with lithium batteries so using loud acid car batteries are easier to recycle, but don’t last as long it’s not the most practicalyou would likely want to use storage. It loses a lot of efficiency in the day. It could pump the water up and spin the turbine at night. The issue is it’s just finding locations.
Why is this surprising?
what an articulate man. I wish him prosper business
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
A hotel runs entirely on electricity? Is that what the title says?
That building looks like a prison
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.
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...
Been past this building quite a few times. I think more people care about the damn Ikea next-door.
Love this unique building and love its rebirth!
Ugly building.
lived in new haven for years and never knew what that building was lol
The largest energy source for electric generation in the USA is fracked natural gas. Solar power is great, as an assist. (I've used it since 1990.). But it's not going to replace our "current" consumption, pun intended.
I like my hotels in 21st Century America, not 1980s Soviet Union
That building is immediately identifiable if you know it.
it looks like a US embassy complex. very cool what he's doing
That is a really ugly building.
Brutalist architecture is dismal and depressing. This building at least makes it much less so.
Also, the title is weird. It likely should read that the building is Zero Emissions/Solar.
Zero mission is not a thing because you buy a solar panel there’s missions to make it and transport it so finding selling zero mission is awkward. You could say once you’ve generated a certain amount of power it’s paid back it’s carbon footprint 20 mission but there’s no like standard definition for it.
One-of-a-kind hotel runs entirely on electricity? The hotels in my country are powered by steam and coal. This is revolutionary!
Uder the spell of fantasies... How much fossil energy was used to build those buildings? How much fossil fuel will be used to renovate those buldings when need be? How much fossil energy was used to manufacture those solar panels, and all other appliances? And how much fossil energy will be used to re-manufacture everything when need be? And what if we run out of fossil energy, who will maintain, renovate, rebuild etc. all this and from what energy source? That is the big question, with no valid answers...
Yes, thank you for posing a bunch of problems with no solutions. Very helpful
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.
Phew thought it ran on potatoes or beef.
Someone finally gets it👍
Does that mean I can finally stop bringing candles with me when I travel?
I wish more grocery stores in my state were required to install solar panels and would add parking space covers with solar panels.
Ehh im pretty sure there are lots of hotels that run only on electricity. Also they are not off grid if they are connected to the grid… they are taking a lot of liberties with the definition of these words
How do they get the electricity?
Title is missing “solar”.
Don't ALL hotels run on Electricity ha ha ha ha ha ha
Amazing simply amazing
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.
Electric only hotels aren't new. They are quite common actually. From Florida to Quebec and BC. Greenwashing at it's best.
regardless of how useful they are, parkinglots are where solar should be
Looks like Coventry in the UK
Someone went out of their way to avoid that blue building to the left.
electric grid has been around for 100 years. you people.
Beautiful Brutalist Building. It's so Futuristic.
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!
wtf is this video title mean even😭
They lose 1% capacity every year
I hope you have acointed for this
B-but he didn’t eliminate the carbon foot print of his building! At all.
I grew up near this eye sore, I would have never thought it would play a important role on sustainable energy.
It also looks like a prison....
It is the ugliest building in Connecticut
I love brutalist architecture. Glad to see it will be around for a while longer.
lol smh how old is this technology now like 20 years for solar and inverter batteries. Other countries been doing this for years. Glad there’s one building in America that’s mostly efficient since it still uses grid power.
The title of this video was so confusing to me. I thought to myself “what do most buildings run off of if not electricity? 🤔“ lol I think they meant runs off of green electricity?
I would say the minute of building has a gas connection like most commercial buildings do France for the kitchen for water heating and heating the building that’s the most amount of watts of energy is used on natural gas then instead of electricity because things like lights will be, but they’re not the majority of the energy consumption
The building is beautiful. Admittedly, I do like the brutal architecture as well as other types of architecture.