Best Westerns Derwent Manor hotel, set in 20 acres of rural Northumberland overlooking Derwent Valley have increased its green credentials with the installation of a Windhager biomass system. The 3 star spa and leisure hotel boasts 48 spacious double bedrooms, six bars, six meeting rooms, a large restaurant and full spa and leisure facilities.
The hotel has recently upgraded their existing old oil and electricity fuelled heating systems to a fully integrated Windhager biomass system. This state-of-the-art sustainable heating system uses wood pellets to provide heating and hot water to the hotel, its cottages and all their leisure facilities.The total installation commissioned by GreenGuru NE is made up of two separate 180kW systems, each comprising of three Windhager BioWIN Excel 60kW wood pellet boilers in a 'Kaskade' format.
The hotel opted for the automated pellet feeding BioWIN Excel 60kW boiler, which is fully equipped with its stainless steel combustion burner bowl, patented self-cleaning mechanism. With the costs of wood pellets being approximately 30% cheaper than oil and less than half the price of electricity, this provided the hotel with considerable fuel savings along with being applicable for the Renewable Heat Incentive.
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