Energy
The world's energy consumption has nearly tripled in 40 years.
Accor launched its first hotel 40 years ago. Today, the Group owns hotels around the world and uses as much energy as the city of Manchester… Ongoing efforts have been initiated to control and reduce consumption.
CO2 emissions could raise average temperatures by 1.4 to 5.8°C by 2050.
One night spent in a hotel emits an average of 12kg of CO2, which is as much as a car traveling 100km. Accor is working to reduce those emissions by renovating building heating systems, electricity consumption and water use.
Accor 2010 objectives
1 - Owned hotels consume 10% less energy per room built than in 2006.
2008 yearend indicator: 3,6% less energy consumption.
2 - 100% of owned hotels are equipped with energy-efficient lamps.
2008 yearend indicator: 80% of subsidiary hotels are equipped.
3 - 200 hotels are equipped with solar panels over the entire network.
2008 yearend indicator: 67 hotels equipped, against 47 in 2007 and 41 in 2006.
Achievements
- Through its Hotels Environment Charter, Accor recommends 19 energy optimizing measures to be implemented in each facility: the use of energy-efficient refrigerators, optimized outside lighting, solar panels to heat swimming pools and more.
- The installation of low-consumption bulbs in 2300 hotels in the network saved nearly 72 million kwH of electricity over one year.
- 64 Accor hotels are equipped with thermal solar panels to produce hot sanitary water in Brazil, China, Spain, France, Morocco and Polynesia. Accor also renewed its collaboration with the French ADEME in 2006 to install solar hot water production in 100 hotels in France.
- The ibis Paris Porte de Clichy, which opened in 2004, is the very first hotel in France equipped with photovoltaic panels that directly produce electricity. They are integrated into the building façade.
- In 2004 the Novotel Milan Airport installed a tri-generation system: this system produces locally the energy needed for heating, cooling and electricity, with very high efficiency because of the immediate reuse of the heat emitted during production.
- The Etap Hotel Toulouse Airport, built in 2008, uses cutting-edge insulation and renewable energy technologies (geothermal probes, heat pump, solar panels). As a result, it uses 30% less energy than required by current French thermal regulations (RT 2005).
- In New Zealand, the Novotel Rotorua Lakeside has been using the geothermal activity of its site since 1996 to obtain natural energy: water from the water tables is used to heat the hotel's water network, and then re-injected into the ground for minimum environmental impact.