Case study·Hospitality·Ireland

Night-time energy down 30%

A hotel never fully sleeps — but it shouldn't consume as if it's full at 4am. Woodlands Hotel used Advisor to expose its out-of-hours consumption patterns and target operational changes, cutting night-time energy usage by 30%.

Sector
Hospitality
Where
Ireland
Engagement
Advisor analytics
The win
30% reduction in night-time usage
At a glance

Woodlands Hotel achieved a 30% reduction in night-time energy usage by using Advisor analytics to identify out-of-hours consumption patterns and drive targeted operational changes. In a 24-hour business, the small hours are where waste hides — and where clear data turns into quick, low-risk savings.

  • CustomerWoodlands Hotel
  • SegmentHotel / hospitality
  • FocusOut-of-hours consumption
  • ApproachAdvisor analytics + operational change
  • Result30% lower night-time energy use
  • RiskNo impact on guest experience
Woodlands Hotel's main entrance and front driveway, a single-storey hotel building surrounded by landscaped gardens.
Woodlands Hotel, Ireland — where out-of-hours consumption analysis cut night-time energy usage by 30%.
01The brief

Where does the energy go at 3am?

Hotels run around the clock, so it’s easy for overnight consumption to drift upward unnoticed — plant left running, systems that never throttle back, loads that don’t need to be on when the building is quiet. Without granular, time-of-day data, that waste is invisible on a monthly bill.

Woodlands needed to see its consumption profile through the night, distinguish genuinely necessary overnight load from waste, and act on the difference without affecting the guest experience.

02What we did

Find the waste, change the routine

Advisor made the overnight profile visible, so the team could separate necessary load from waste and target operational changes precisely.

The cheapest energy is what a building burns when nobody's there. Make the overnight load visible and most of it simply switches off.

Lead Engineer, Full Stack Energy
03The outcome

A third less energy overnight

By identifying out-of-hours consumption patterns and acting on them, Woodlands Hotel cut night-time energy usage by 30% — a low-risk saving that didn’t touch the guest experience and recurs every single night.

It’s a clean example of how visibility translates directly into savings in a 24-hour business: once you can see the overnight profile, the waste is obvious, and the fixes are operational rather than capital-intensive.

30%
reduction in night-time energy usage
Out-of-hours
waste made visible
Every night
a recurring saving
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