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February 14, 2008
Best Practices for Hotel Energy Savings
Energy conservation is one step we all need to take to reduce our impact on climate change. Surprisingly, sometimes water conservation is just as important to that end. Hotels are a wasteful business and need to do much to reduce their impact on the environment and this best practices report will help you do just that.
Flex Your Power, California's statewide energy efficiency marketing and outreach campaign, is a partnership of everyone in California and was initiated in 2001. It has received international recognition and an Energy Star award of excellence. California hotels are lucky to have such a program to rely on for energy education, but any hotel can use the information to good success.
Flex Your Power has released Hotels Best Practises Guide for energy savings. Since hotels are always "on", this guide can help anyone interested in saving energy, and therefore money, do that. Savings can be found throughout a property, all you have to do is look. Energoy conservation is one easy place to start creating an environmentally friendly hotel.
Part of the focus of this report is to not lower, in fact to raise, the guest experience. I think they have addressed one of the fears, one of the reasons hoteliers can shy away from adopting environmental actions -- they don't want to reduce the guest experience. Well, here's a guide that can show you how to save energy and money, and improve the guest experience.
There is also a section on water, one of my pet concerns. Water consumption has a huge element of energy consumption involved, especially in California where this report focuses its wisdom. Since California is striving to reduce energy consumption and impacts by climate change, the section on water usage fits well with the whole premise of energy conservation. By conserving water you save money on two fronts -- water bills and energy consumption.
The report looks fairly comprehensive. It's broken into bite-size sections, allowing you to digest bits at a time so you can tackle your energy consumption in a manageable fashion. I urge you to bookmark the report and use it to design your energy conservation program (yes, the report helps you do that too) and start saving energy and money, and helping the environment your guests want to enjoy.
Posted by Kit
Comments
There are other options to conservation as well. RoomEnergy has developed a method of reducing the power consumed in a hotel by a significant amount. It installs in 5 minutes and works with almost every hotel air conditioner.
Posted by: Troy at September 16, 2008 02:59 PM
