Website: env.meteo.noa.gr/xenios/
Summary
By working with hotels to reduce their energy consumption, municipalities can positively affect greenhouse gas emissions, reduce the use of water and other natural resources, and also influence the environmental behaviour of guests, staff, and suppliers. This project aims to promote solar thermal applications in hotels, increase awareness of the applications of renewable energy sources (RES) and provide support in promoting these goals among local authorities, hotels, and their associations.
Results
The work performed within XENIOS was of great interest to the hoteliers, given that the information they had previously received concerning the benefits of RUE, RES, and specific indoor environmental problems was very general and vague. The XENIOS auditing software offered a concrete approach and a well-structured methodology for assessing the deterioration status of a hotel. It provided an easy-to-use tool for a first assessment of the renovation costs, as well as a parallel estimate of the energy savings from the application of RUE and RES techniques that can be incorporated into a general refurbishment plan. The response of technical managers to the XENIOS multimedia-auditing tool was particularly good because it was felt that none of the existing software with a similar purpose was as user-friendly or as globally coherent. Technical personnel with engineering backgrounds found the tool very practical in providing the profitability of energy conservation measures from both an energy and financial point of view. However, the XENIOS software seems more appropriate for independent hotel owners rather than for large hotel chains, except when these hotel chains do not have the technical personnel required to perform complete or partial refurbishment of the hotel themselves. In any event, the XENIOS software can serve as a complementary tool to other mechanisms and practices. The innovation of the XENIOS solar CPU means that technical managers are able to check the results from their own personal computer in real-time or even receive updates via text messages to their mobile phone. An online presentation of the results of the monitoring solar CPU is accessible through the project's webpage. The Managers' Guide was considered to be very comprehensive, well illustrated, well structured and an easy-to-read document with useful best practice examples. The Managers' Guide and the Guests' Guide will both be available electronically and can therefore be tailored to meet various needs. Results from the awareness campaign have yet to be evaluated.
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