Located in the heart of the city, The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco is a 336-room hotel brimming with elegance and style. It is the first hotel in the world to install the PureComfort® combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) solution – the latest in energy-efficient technology from UTC Power.

“We are proud to be the first hotel to install PureComfort® integrated power technology. This product aligns with our corporate vision to protect the environment as well as to produce bottom line energy cost savings. It also ensures we continue to lead our industry as the best in class.”

Minaz Abji
Executive Vice President, Asset Management
Host Marriott Corporation


 Energy Productivity

The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco exemplifies the best in tradition and heritage. It also has proven to be an industry leader by embracing innovative, green technology for cooling and electricity. The PureComfort® solution ensures lower overall energy costs while minimizing environmental impact.

The PureComfort® Model 240M solution is a combination of four 60-kilowatt microturbines and a double-effect absorption chiller from Carrier Corporation, UTC Power’s sister company. It is the industry’s only integrated microturbine and double-effect absorption chiller solution. The microturbine exhaust is collected in a manifold and used to drive the double-effect absorption chiller, enabling the PureComfort® Model 240M solution to achieve an overall fuel utilization rate of more than 80 percent, far greater than the 33 percent typical of central power generation.


 Energy Responsibility

	The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco is proving that sustainability makes economic sense. While reducing its carbon footprint, it’s also conserving natural resources. The UTC Power PureComfort® system will reduce this hotel's carbon footprint by 460 tons each year. To achieve the same positive environmental impact, 90 acres* of forest would need to be planted.
	The power generated by a megawatt of PureComfort® systems saves over 4 million gallons** of water each year that would otherwise be wasted by conventional electrical generation. That’s enough water to fill more than 6 Olympic-size swimming pools. Water conservation is especially important as humanity battles to conserve precious water resources.
	Reduction of harmful emissions like nitrogen oxides (NOx), is yet another environmental benefit of  PureComfort®  system  technology. NOx emissions will be reduced at The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco by 3 tons each year, which equates to the same environmental benefit as removing 170 cars*** from the road.