NEW PUB USES SO LITTLE ENERGY THAT OPENING IS A BREEZE!

Wetherspoon opened a new pub, The Kettleby Cross, in Melton Mowbray, on 24th September.

A flagship green pub for the company, with the aim of using 50 per cent less energy than a similar-sized Wetherspoon pub.

Energy is generated from a wind turbine and saved through modern techniques, such as rainwater-harvesting and other innovative green technologies, including solar panels, sun pipes and evaporative coolers.

Camouflaged solar roof panels will provide a minimum of 33 per cent of the energy used to heat the pub’s hot water.

Evaporative coolers will keep customers cool whenever the pub’s temperature rises above a certain level.

Sun pipes containing prisms will reflect sunlight to parts of the pub which it would otherwise not reach, thereby saving the amount of energy needed to light the pub.

Other technologies include photovoltaic tiles, converting the sun’s energy into electricity,  ground source heating system which provides the under floor heating again cutting down on energy use.

For more information contact Neil Smith at our Oxford office Tel: 01865 377002