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Hotels: Smart climate control

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[ Detailed version of the measure ]
Last update: 12/09/2024
  • Possibility of assistance
  • Subsidies available
  • Innovative solutions

To 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.

Installation of smart climate control

Smart climate control is performed on a large set of building data over long periods to identify malfunctions and savings opportunities, while enabling the user to assess the effectiveness of corrective measures that are taken.

This technology is suitable for hotels with manually controlled technical equipment such as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

Setting up this new technology will allow the company to save energy, while slightly reducing its carbon footprint. This measure is simple to implement with a medium-to-long-term return on investment and it does not require shutdown of production during the technical installation stage.

Installing smart climate control can prevent equipment degradation and offers two major benefits:

  • Thousands of HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) system components are analysed by the software: this helps identify larger savings opportunities in a way that would not be cost-effective with manual analysis.
  • When the system underperforms compared to optimal operation, the software detects anomalies. This helps resolve issues before they impact equipment or compromise occupant comfort.

Energy and environmental impact

Smart climate control helps maximise energy savings in hotels. Indeed, these systems use sophisticated machine learning algorithms and various datasets such as historical thermodynamic data, local weather conditions and demand peaks to optimise real-time energy consumption throughout the year.

Energy savings for hotels using this control system can amount to 5-15% of overall consumption. This also has a positive impact on the carbon footprint.

State subsidy application

State subsidies

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.

SME Packages – Sustainability

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

  • Verification of company eligibility and costs: General Directorate for Industry, new Technology and Research
    • Support in drawing up the subsidy application file prior to submission to the Ministry of the Economy

N.B. State subsidies cannot be combined for the same project

Subsidies from electricity and natural gas suppliers

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.

Implementation aid

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