Indicators of sustainability energy management based on energy audit for hotels

Abstract

The hotels, which have a great potential in the building sector, are the structures needing effective energy management system with high energy consumption and cost. This study first includes the pre-energy audit to determine the necessity of efficient energy management system. In this study, the energy management indicators are defined depending on energy audit, and an analytical method has been developed to directly get effective energy management system for hotels. Hotels should be examined with two different approaches considering operational and structural requirements. To determine the cost of the business needs, the hotels must be evaluated in terms of structural aspects, comfort and environmental impacts. According to the analyses, when structural condition is taken into consideration, energy saving potential was found at 59.7% for m2. On the other hand, when bed occupancy was taken into account with operating cost, energy-saving potential was found as 43.8%. Similar analyses were made considering uninsulated consumption, and savings potential was found 36.6% and 27.3%, respectively. At the end of the study, some suggestions by defining indicators of sustainable energy management have been made.