Nestled in the heart of Lincolnshire, The Admiral Rodney Hotel is a historic 18th-century coaching inn and part of the RedCat / Coaching Inn Group, one of the UK’s leading hospitality groups.
The hotel has long been known for its classic charm and warm guest experience, but like many hospitality venues, energy efficiency was becoming a growing area of focus.
The Challenge:
Running a 24/7 hospitality operation means constant energy demand, from cellar cooling and kitchen extraction to refrigeration and drink systems. These are essential for smooth service but are also some of the biggest energy consumers in hotels, restaurants, and pubs.
The RedCat Group has been proactive in addressing this challenge across its portfolio, identifying opportunities to make sites like The Admiral Rodney Hotel more energy-efficient, more sustainable, and more cost-effective, without impacting operations or guest experience.
Our Solution
To support this goal, Powerhub Solutions worked closely with the team at The Admiral Rodney Hotel to install a suite of smart energy-saving tools, each designed to reduce wasted energy, cut carbon, and improve asset performance.
Installed technologies included:
Hospitality sites like The Admiral Rodney Hotel present a particular challenge for energy management. Unlike a typical commercial premises with predictable opening hours, a working hotel runs around the clock, with kitchen extraction, cellar cooling and refrigeration all needing to operate reliably regardless of occupancy or time of day. This makes blanket energy reduction difficult, since systems cannot simply be switched off outside peak hours without risking food safety, drink quality or guest comfort.
Powerhub’s approach was to target the specific behaviour of each system rather than apply a single solution across the site. The WiFF Manager, for example, only allows kitchen extraction to run at the rate the kitchen actually needs, rather than running at full capacity throughout service. The Smart Post Mix Timer takes a similar approach with drink systems, recognising periods of genuine idle time and reducing draw accordingly without affecting service speed when the bar reopens.
Each system was selected to target a specific area of energy waste, together delivering a comprehensive optimisation of the hotel’s operations.
The Outcome:
The installation was completed efficiently and with no disruption to guests or staff, a key part of Powerhub Solution’s promise.
The site is now equipped to:
What makes this approach effective for a site like The Admiral Rodney Hotel is that none of the changes are visible to guests. The hotel retains the same warmth and character that has defined it as a historic coaching inn, while the systems running behind the scenes work more efficiently. For RedCat Group, this case study reflects the wider opportunity across hospitality, where energy waste is often built into how a site has always operated rather than how it needs to operate.
