Colorado hotel checks into rebates for sensors, lighting upgrades
When you check into a hotel, you fully expect to be able to control the temperature of your room. The downfall to providing customer comfort is that it can raise energy costs if a room cools down or heats up when nobody is in it.
Jess Koehler, hotel developer for TKO properties that manages the Candlewood Suites hotel in Grand Junction, CO, had been working in the hotel business for years and knew that efficient systems existed. He had worked on retrofits, but this was a new construction project, allowing him to start from scratch.