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MADEIRA GREEN HOTEL
100% RES SUPPLY
Contact: J. Manuel Melim Mendes • Agencia Regional da Energia e Ambiente da
Regiao Autonoma da Madeira • Madeira Tecnopolo • PO-9000-390
Funchal • Madeira • Tel: (351-291) 723300 . Fax: (351-291) 720033
E-mail: aream@mail.telepac.pt
Madeira is a well known tourist destination
from the middle of the XIX century,
due to the influence of the development of
steam navigation and of the British
economy, which, during that bygone era,
created the conditions to profit the excellent
climatic and natural landscape characteristics
as one of the first tourist destinations
worldwide.
The increase of tourism in recent years has
obliged Madeiran authorities to adopt a
Tourism Policy Plan, with the aim of reaching
a sustainable development for tourism,
based on quality, where rules are defined
for the growth of the hotel capacity in the
next years, is defined.
The increased rate of social and economic
development in the Autonomous Region of
Madeira is reflected in a rapidly growing
demand for energy. The Madeira Energy
Policy Plan of 2000 provides the Regional
Government with the means to adapt the
policy to new opportunities for economic
growth – meeting increasing demand while,
at the same time, taking environmental
concerns into account.
The strategic objectives of the Regional
Energy Policy are:
Easing of constraints caused by insularity
Rational use of energy
Greater emphasis on regional energy
resources
Management of electricity demand and
provision of adequate supply
Innovation and inter-regional co-operation.
Main Aims
With the spirit of promoting a new concept
of tourism and integrating environmental
and energy issues in the economic
development of Madeira, as well as promoting
quality, innovation and inter-regional
co-operation, the Madeira Green
Hotel project consists of the creation of a
tourist complex that is 100% supplied by
renewable energy sources, through the
application of the most advanced and feasible
energy and environmental solutions.
Project details
The complex will have a 165 room hotel
and a marina with a capacity for 250 vessels,
also incorporating the reception marine
services, a nautical sports centre, restaurants
and stores. Its construction is
scheduled to start in the beginning of 2004.
The project will integrate most RE technologies
– wind generator, photovoltaics,
solar thermal and a fuel cell – coupled with
low energy building design and low energy
techniques for water desalination and
wastewater treatment, waste management
procedures, rainwater and runoff collection,
landscape treatment, integrated and
clean transport system.
To guarantee the electricity supply, the hotel
will be connected to the public electric
Key Facts of the project
grid for the cases where the hotel’s demand
is higher than the instantaneous RES
production. The main target for the hotel’s
electricity system is to have an annual
equilibrium between demand and production.
This means that the system will be
dimensioned and managed in order to have
the minimum energy exchange with the
electric grid, which will act mainly as
backup.
Replication Potential
The project will have a demonstrative effect
of the RE technologies application, and
the resulting know-how will contribute to
the improvement in these technologies performance,
which will raise the liability of
these technologies and, consequently, will
contribute to the replication of other similar
projects.
Dissemination Activities
The demonstration component is the key
to the success of this initiative and focuses
both on other hotels of the islands, on local
and European RES professionals and
on the citizens and tourists in general. With
the aim of increasing public awareness,
there will be a live museum, in the hotel
grounds, open to the public, which will show
the RE technologies used in the hotel resort.
Several promoting actions like conferences,
workshops, papers, CDs, and a
website, where the results of the project
will be disseminated, are also foreseen.
Energy System
Mobility System
Water System
1 photovoltaic system of about 26 kWp – 26,000 kWh/year
1 fuel cell – 20,000 kWh/year
1 solar thermal system of about 432m 2 of concentrators – 232,200 kWh/year
1 wind turbine with a capacity of about 750 kW - 2,267,128 kWh/year
An integrated mobility system with: GPL taxis, electric or fuel cell buses and scooters,
electric bikes and a taxi boat.
1 seawater desalination system
1 wastewater treatment system
Saved Emissions
Reduction on imported fuel
2,500 tonnes/year of CO 2
5.4 tonnes/year of SO x
4.4 tonnes/year of NO x
400 toe/year
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