Establishment of Electrical Energy Benchmarking Protocol for the Assessment of the Carbon Emissions in Hotel Industry
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Date
2019
Authors
Babatunde, O.M.
Oluseyi, P.O.
Denwigwe, H.I.
Akin-Adeniyi, T.J.
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Springerlink.com
Abstract
The hotel industry consumes quite a sizeable quantum of energy. The
industry stakeholders contend with energy related challenges; this includes high
cost of service provision as a fall out of electricity price as well as poor energy
policy. More so, this industry remains an unattractive subsector to both the energy
players and succeeding governments (in Nigeria). Due to the great importance of
this industry to commerce, tourism and hospitality; it is thus necessary to conduct
its energy performance analysis. This will indirectly provide a template for an
efficient utilization of energy in the industry. Though there are no creditable
national records on energy consumption in this industry in Nigeria, but a
well-calibrated energy data treatment method is developed to establish an acceptable protocol using relevant statistical tools. These methods are tested on an
empirically selected number of hotels which are actively involved in business
activities in Lagos metropolis. The results obtained clearly established that a
number of building parameters have a set of measurable influence on energy use, as
well as carbon emission, in the hotels. To support this, it is discovered that the
relationship between the total floor area (footprint) and number of employees has
the highest influence on energy utilization in the hotels.
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Energy benchmark; Hotel industry; Statistical tools; Emission; Energy use intensity