Energetic Analysis of the Implementation of Renewable Energies in a Canary Island Hotel
Abstract
The European Directive on Energy Performance of Buildings has established a target of Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB) for a sustainable future. For this target, hotels take a special interest, as shown in the neZEH project (Nearly Zero Energy Hotels project) (neZEH, 2016), (Tsoutsos et al., 2013). In this work, a hotel located in Tenerife (Canary Island, Spain) is analyzed. With the objective of reaching the nZEB label, an exhaustive energetic analysis of the hotel was performed and the implementation of different renewable energy systems was proposed. The utilization of solar thermal collectors, photovoltaic collectors and heat pumps are analyzed in this work. Also, the passive solar characteristics, namely related to internal shading, were considered.
Keywords
Hotel, Renewable energies, Island, Energy performance, Trnsys