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It’s that time again – Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are already hitting the street. From coast to coast and around the world, hotel staff are sharpening their pencils and filling out select paperwork from a mountain of NBTA forms with the hope of winning business.

With all the different models, options and features offered by countless energy management systems, an energy efficiency project installing 65,000 wireless nodes at the Wynn Hotel & Casino warrants a closer look. Almost every lighting and climate control device in the 2,716 rooms were replaced by Evolve Guest Control.

For most Internet marketing gurus, the use of Internet marketing and social networking sites has been a secret weapon. As a hotel operator or owner, you will agree that it is always necessary to develop your and increase business. With the internet and all the new technologies connecting green hotels directly to customers, creating an internet marketing strategy and utilizing social network platforms is essential to reaching your target market. Social networking is a great tool to improve the performance of your hotel’s green marketing strategy.

Over the past several years I have walked through a hundred hotels as part of our E2A Program (Energy Efficiency Analysis) always looking for opportunities that the EGH Team can present solutions for. In nearly90% of hotels we have evaluated, we have seen managements efforts to rid the property of incandescent and halogen lighting to reduce energy usage. One challenge faced during this process is finding the right dimmable down lights.

The difficult part of any energy conservation project is to balance the investment costs and potential cost savings with out exceeding a limited budget. EcoGreenHotel’s recommendations for this project all provided reasonable payback periods while delivering above average cost savings. Two of the most effective solutions implemented were the Guest Room Energy Management System and an Ozone Laundry system.

EcoGreenHotel, a sustainability and energy services company, has been selected as an accredited sustainability partner to the National Purchasing Network (NPN), a hotel purchasing consortium, to provide guidance on green products, energy solutions and sustainability services and advice to NPN’s customer base across the hospitality spectrum that includes hotels, resorts, golf courses, restaurants and nightclubs.

What would you do if you could reduce your monthly fuel cost by 70% for the hotel shuttle van? In our August newsletter EcoGreenHotel detailed the progress toward creating a nationwide infrastructure for electric vehicles to be driven on a large scale. The September newsletter detailed how hotels can increase their revenue by being part of a regional approach to electric vehicle introduction. This month we are going to detail how an electric vehicle can dramatically reduce a green hotel’s shuttle fleet operation costs.

As the saying goes, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. But it can be dfficult to figure out “how” for a hotel business. With standard hotel operations being wasteful, there are numerous opportunities for hotels to not only reduce their own waste and associated hauling costs, but also help contribute to their communities whether it be local or international.

Energy-efficiency and sustainability services firm, EcoGreenHotel LLC, recently named Chris Lewis the Director of Energy Solutions. In this role, Lewiswill be responsible for managing all strategic hotel energy projects and advancing innovative green solutions to help clients reduce their environmental impact and operational costs.

The race continues as hotels strive to one-up their competition. In January we had published an investigative article on green hotel certifications exploring various anglesof “why certify” and details of major certification programs. As the number of green certification programs continues to grow, we want to revisit some of the prominent certifications that continue to lead the hospitality lodging industry on the green trend.