Reducing Carbon Emissions from the Tourist Accommodation Sector on Non-Interconnected Islands: A Case Study of a Medium-Sized Hotel in Rhodes, Greece

Martin Spiller; Corinna Müller; Zara Mulholland; Paraskevi Louizidou; Frithjof C. Küpper; Kevin Knosala; Peter Stenzel

doi:10.3390/en15103801

Reducing Carbon Emissions from the Tourist Accommodation Sector on Non-Interconnected Islands: A Case Study of a Medium-Sized Hotel in Rhodes, Greece

Martin Spiller^* (Corresponding Author), Corinna Müller, Zara Mulholland, Paraskevi Louizidou, Frithjof C. Küpper, Kevin Knosala, Peter Stenzel

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Reducing the carbon emissions from hotels on non-interconnected islands (NII) is essential in the context of a low carbon future for the Mediterranean region. Maritime tourism is the major source of income for Greece and many other countries in the region, as well as hot-temperate and tropical regions worldwide. Like many NIIs, Rhodes attracts a high influx of tourists every summer, doubling the island’s energy demand and, given the high proportion of fossil fuels in the Rhodian energy supply, increasing carbon emissions. Using the theoretical framework ‘FINE’, this paper presents the optimisation of a medium-sized hotel’s energy system with the aim of reducing both cost and carbon emissions. By introducing a Photovoltaic (PV) net metering system, it was found that the carbon emissions associated with an NII hotel’s energy system could be reduced by 31% at an optimised cost. It is suggested that large-scale deployment of PV or alternative renewable energy sources (RES) in NII hotels could significantly reduce carbon emissions associated with the accommodation sector in Greece and help mitigate climate change.

Original language	English
Article number	3801
Number of pages	24
Journal	Energies
Volume	15
Issue number	10
Early online date	21 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en15103801
Publication status	Published - 21 May 2022

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank Mikhalis Markopoulos and Manolis Markopoulos for their assistance in gathering comprehensive information about the special demands of hotels, the hotel’s energy consumption and energy bills.

Data Availability Statement

The FINE and RESkit models alongside the datasets used during this study are available at the link below:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5795964

Keywords

energy system optimisation
carbon dioxide reduction
tourism
Rhodes

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