Beverly Hills hotels use IceBrick technology to cut carbon emissions

• Two Beverly Hills hotels — The Beverly Hilton and The Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills — are now using ice-powered clean energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, energy storage solutions provider Nostromo

• Nostromo’s IceBrick technology uses cold-energy storage cells that save clean energy during off-peak hours to be used later during peak times. The hotels, which are beside each other, share a 1.4-megawatt-hour energy storage facility. 

  • The hotels are the first in the hospitality sector to use the IceBrick technology. The partnership comes as properties look for ways to reduce their carbon footprints in a bid to attract guests that are.
    

Nostromo’s IceBricks charge using grid power when renewable energy levels are high to freeze water into ice. The bricks then use the ice in the late afternoon and evening, when power demand is usually highest, to provide energy for cooling, avoiding the use of fossil-fuel-based energy from the grid. Nostromo estimates that the implementation will cut the cost of cooling for the Beverly Hills hotels by 50% and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 150-200 metric tons annually. Read more