Solar PPA for city-centre 4-5 star hotels

2026 indicative PPA profile

Typical system size	100-400kWp
Year-1 tariff	12-15 p/kWh
Year-1 saving	£14k-£55k
Parent sector	Hotels & Hospitality

Big load, tight roof, near-total self-use

An upscale city-centre hotel is one of the most energy-intensive buildings on its street: laundries, multiple kitchens, air conditioning across hundreds of rooms, conference and banqueting floors, and often a leisure suite besides. Against that appetite the available roof is comparatively small, which turns out to be an advantage — every kilowatt-hour a 100 to 400kWp array produces is swallowed on site with nothing left to export. A purchase agreement priced around 12-14 p/kWh then displaces grid units at their most expensive.

Structured for the group, not just the building

Four- and five-star city hotels rarely stand alone; they belong to national or international groups running estate-wide decarbonisation programmes. That changes the contract shape — deals here are frequently bespoke corporate agreements negotiated at head-office level and rolled out property by property, with covenant strength and consolidated reporting mattering as much as the roof survey. Reputation is part of the calculus too: a flagship in a prime location trades on its brand, and demonstrable clean generation defends that positioning with corporate guests and event bookers alike.

The scale where it really tells

Annual savings of £14k to £55k per property make these among the strongest single-site cases in the hotel sector, and across a group the aggregate is considerable. Location shapes the answer — roof orientation, shading from neighbouring towers, tariff exposure — so a London commercial solar assessment can read quite differently from a regional one. To size a specific building, the savings estimator is the quickest start, and shortlisting the right counterparties via our provider directory is the sensible next step.