CommerceTo make this measure more effective and tailored to the specific context of your company, we recommend that you first perform an overall analysis of your energy situation.
Building management system (BMS) is an interface which remotely controls electronic and mechanical systems in one or more buildings. In particular, BMS takes care of the remote control of the hotel’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, which consume a lot of power.
This technology is suitable for existing hotels wishing to retrofit a BMS system, as well as new buildings where BMS is implemented from the design stage.
The company will be able to make substantial energy savings and reduce its carbon footprint by installing this technology, which has been on the market for over 5 years. This measure is quite simple to implement, even if there is a medium-to-long-term return on investment and it requires a partial shutdown of production during the technical installation stage.
Building management system (BMS) offers a multitude of control options for optimised facilities management: timers, CO2 sensors, presence sensors on light fixtures, heating/air conditioning regulation depending on the climate, etc.
In addition to controlling the facilities, the BMS system is continuously monitoring the equipment, to analyse the operation of individual units and detect possible anomalies so that they can be remedied quickly. Some BMS software now includes energy management modules to monitor and analyse the consumption of the most important uses.
Energy gains take the form of improved control of the hotel’s energy-intensive equipment (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, domestic hot water, etc.)
As for environmental gain, this depends directly on the consumption item affected by the energy gain. Hotels that have adopted this building management system can save up to 30% on their thermal energy consumption, as well as 10% on their electricity consumption. This optimisation also results in a significant reduction in carbon emissions.
Please note: any application for government or non-government subsidies must comply with the “incentive effect”, subject to compliance with the subsidy conditions.
To ensure that the ‘incentive effect’ is respected, no binding commitment (signing a quotation; paying an advance) may be made BEFORE submitting the application file or receiving the agreement in principle from the State or the electricity and natural gas supplier following an application for subsidies.
Temporary environmental impact aid
Extended “SME Packages Sustainability” aid scheme, to give companies greater incentives to invest in measures that significantly improve their environmental impact. Investments under this climate protection measure amount to 70% for small enterprises, 60% for medium-sized enterprises and 50% for large enterprises, for projects costing more than €7,500, with a maximum subsidy of €100,000.
Flat-rate subsidy of €5,000 for small and medium-sized companies for projects to reduce their environmental impact, costing between €25,000 and €6,650 excluding VAT.
Environmental protection scheme – Investment aid for the protection of the environment
N.B. State subsidies cannot be combined for the same project
Since 2015, natural gas and electricity suppliers are required to make energy savings for consumers under the obligation scheme. Since then, energy suppliers have been offering support and advice, as well as subsidy programmes for consumers to implement energy efficiency measures.
The following suppliers offer this service for companies:
N.B. Supplier subsidies can be combined with any state subsidies for the same project.
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