Concept Note
Project “Energy saving models for European hotels.”
APPLICANT
GET & UPV
CALL
HORIZON 2020- LCE19 (10-09-2014)
TOPIC: “Supporting coordination of national R&D activities”
HORIZON 2020- EE2 (9-12-2014)
TOPIC: “Buildings design for new highly energy performing buildings”
HORIZON 2020- LCE21 (3-03-2015)
TOPIC: Modelling and analysing the energy system, its transformation and
impacts”
HORIZON 2020- LCE14 (10-06-2015)
TOPIC: “Removing market barriers to the uptake of efficient heating and cooling
solutions”
PROJECT
DESCRIPTION
Project title: Energy Saving Models for European Hotels
SCOPE
The use of energies in Hotels must be optimized, maximizing the utilization of on-site
renewable energy sources and the use of heating and cooling systems need to be more
efficient, intelligent and cheaper. For that reason it is necessary to deploy and enrich
intelligent systems using smart metering and control solutions for optimization of energy
consumption and for the consumer supply, by exploiting multiple energy resources,
including cogeneration and renewable energy integration.
The development of “Saving models for European hotels” is interesting, given the
importance of tourism for the regional and national economy. Every hotel has some
energy needs based on their energetic applications, occupancy, size, geographical
location and availability of energy resources. The intelligent system of energetic
optimization shall be design to be adapted to all kind hotels, but considering the energy
requirements thereof. For this reason, it will improve different energy technologies that
can be implemented at appropriate hotels. This generation technologies are:
considering, as a starting point, the generation technologies with most experienced
renewable energy sources (solar thermal, solar photovoltaic, wind, ...)
General objective
The main project objective is to save energy in European Hotels, and reduce their
emissions.
Through more efficient use of energy technologies available in the hotel as well as
complete monitoring of demand and use, a smart distribution system is achieved, that
allow the interconnection between hotels beyond the customer. The district heating and
cooling integrates demand and supply, and can be extended not only a hotel but for
consumptions of different hotels. Thereby, an autonomous cogeneration in different
hotels is achieved and the city smart grid would be improved.
Specific objectives:
-Energy Segmentation and Modeling of the european Hotels to set priorities for energy
sources and suggest for each one the energy proposal to saving by in one side the
optimal use of energy, and by other side, the implementation of the most efficient
generation systems according to their resources available, and the regulation and pricing
in each country. Financial factors are a critical factor for use of energy efficiency and
renewable energy technologies. It is reported that over 90 percent of hotels have difficulty
obtaining financing for any types of investments. In addition, small- and medium- size
hotels often have poor credit ratings that make loans more costly than for large hotels or
chain hotels. For that reason, is essential to know the legal and economic situation of
each region to advise the hotel regarding cogeneration and suggest the use of certain
renewable energy.
-To create and test a intelligent and integrated energy management system for demand
and energy supply of hotels.
-To investigate optimal solution of direct solar heat utilization or short or longer term
storage in shallow layers of ground for Hotels industry.
-To optimize geothermal heating system by application of heat pumps utilizing
geothermal energy sources.
-Mapping the potential for utilization of heat pumps using sea water as the heat source in
countries of project partners. Optimizing district heating systems temperatures for the
case of utilization of heat pumps with sea water as the heat sorce.
- Specific savings plan for each hotel based on their needs, according to the model
stablished.
Activities:
Work Package 1. Data gathering and modelling
Work Package 2. Intelligent Manage System.
Work Package 3. Improve Energy Technologies
Work Package 4. Pilot
Work Package 5. Dissemination
Expected results:
Reduce the energy consumption of space and water heating in hotels by 30 to 50%
compared to today's level.
- Reducing energy consumption and improvement of energy efficiency in the existing
hotels
-Contribute to wider use of intelligent district heating and cooling systems and integration
of renewable, waste and storage.
-Sea Water and geothermal sources in district heating and cooling in Hotels
Duration: 36 months
PARTNERS
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Gobal Energy Trading
REA Kvarner
University of Rijeka
Austrian Institute of Technology
Area Science Park
Jadran Hotels
SEARCHED PARTNERS:
Economic Consulting (i.e. NERA, PWC, etc)
European Hotels Associations
Manufacturer of intelligent systems (i.e. Schneider Electric, Siemens, etc.)
Manufacturer equipment HVAC (i.e. Energy Star, Rheem, etc.)
EU COFINANCING
RATE
CONTACT
PERSON
Victoria Terrádez Navarro
Global Energy Trading
Email : victoria.terradez@gmail.com
Vicente Porcar
Global Energy Trading
Email : vicenteporcar@globalenergyt.com