How much can a hotel save with Abora Solar’s hybrid solar panels?

There are 3 important expenses in a hotel: personnel, raw materials and energy. This is a fact that many studies show, but also any hotel management will confirm. But if you ask them where the costs can be recovered… The almost immediate and thoughtless answer is energy, because obviously you don’t want to cut staff and a hotel can’t do without raw materials. So the solution for hotels’ savings lies in energy, to which is added the public awareness of the climate emergency that calls for change, but also the European provisions that offer the hotel sector the opportunity to move towards greener tourism. Abora offers you a 100% made in Spain and the most profitable response on the market to make your hotel more ecological, competitive and profitable.

This performance translates into euros. By installing our hybrid solar panels, you will benefit from 19% of the photovoltaic part and 70% of the thermal part. This means that you will save considerably on your energy bill thanks to a technology that is manufactured just a couple of hours from your home in Zaragoza.

This is certainly the issue of this article. When we talk about our technology, one of the first doubts or questions that arise is that its installation cost is higher than that of photovoltaic energy. And indeed, the investment is greater. Since the savings are multiplied by 4, and therefore, the installation is profitable sooner, being of greater amount.
Moreover, you do not have to make the initial investment, as it can be financed. This means that your installation will be initially financed through a loan or a grant, so the initial financial contribution will be zero. But if we go further in our demonstration, from the first day of your installation it will produce electricity and heat, which will allow you to produce energy that translates into euros because you will not have to pay for it on your energy bill. This savings will be what will allow you to pay off your loan. So you don’t need to make any personal investments.

Four years ago, we started working with the Iberostar hotel chain. Iberostar wanted to use clean energy that would meet its energy needs while being profitable. That’s where we come in.

We are in Tenerife with a hotel with 481 rooms and a great demand for electricity but also hot water with a heated pool. Through our software, developed by our team, we study and calculate the installation of our hybrid solar panels for the hotel, taking into account the demand for electricity and hot water, the surface of the roof, the possible obstacles to power generation (shade, etc.). In this way we were able to propose to Iberostar the most optimal and profitable solar installation for them, providing them with the benefits generated and an approximation to the energy produced. Thanks to our software, we have indicated the amount of energy that the installation of our panels would produce and the benefits they would generate both in terms of economic, energy and avoided emissions. All these elements will allow you to amortize your installation in just 5 years and save on your electricity and gas bill.

Iberostar trusted us and we installed 102 hybrid solar panels with aHTech® technology on their roofs in Tenerife, according to the calculations made with our software. We also equipped the facility with our monitoring system, aHMonitor, so that Iberostar could know in real time its energy production, the savings it was making and the CO2 emissions avoided. And 4 years later, we are doing the energy balance of the hotel and the figures show that the installation produces 16% more than the figures announced 4 years earlier. So it’s 100% beneficial for the hotel.

To date we have 3 other projects with the chain: proof of the trust placed in our technology.