Hotels need to switch to natural gas

[NewsWhore]

Arturo Villanueva, executive vice president of the National Hotels & Restaurants Association (Asonahores) has highlighted the tourism industry's need to switch its main source of power. He said that at present, the industry depends on diesel-based generation, but the government could offer companies facilities for transforming their generators to natural gas or other less costly fuel sources. He said the law of renewable energy facilitates the development of projects to replace petrol fuel and exempts them from taxes, such as the case of wind energy. He called for joint efforts between the government and private sector to reduce the hotel sector's energy matrix. Luciano Guido, of the Group of Renewable Energy Companies, stated during a recent conference on renewable energy that 32-35% of the hotel industry's operating costs go on energy, in contrast with the world standard of 8-12% of costs.

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