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SUN SHINES ON 'VIETNAM'S MOST AMBITIOUS' HOTEL SOLAR POWER PROJECT YET (Viêt Nam)
Thirty-hectare beachfront Alma Resort Cam Ranh is set to complete what it believes is Vietnam’s most profound hotel solar power project by the end of this year. |
Catégorie : Asie Pacifique - Viêt Nam - Économie du secteur
- Développement durable
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Enregistré par la société Balcony Media Group
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With a capacity of 2462 kilowatts peak - the rate at which it generates energy at its peak performance on a sunny day – the solar power system will fuel between a quarter to almost 30 per cent Alma’s energy needs, depending on occupancy determined by the low and high seasons.
It's estimated the system will save Alma up to USD 7.2 million (VND 178 billion) in electricity bills over the next 25 years. It will also reduce Alma's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by up to 65,000 tonnes during a quarter of a century.
Alma’s managing director Herbert Laubichler-Pichler said the resort was setting a strong example on the solar power front for the rest of Vietnam’s luxury hotel industry.
“Cam Ranh is renowned as having Vietnam’s best weather, averaging more than 300 sunny days annually,” said Laubichler-Pichler.
“The abundant sunshine here lends itself to such a profound and sustainable alternative to electricity that we are well and truly on the way to finishing soon.”
Vietnam has emerged as Southeast Asia’s biggest solar power market, with the largest installed solar capacity in the region due to favorable government policies, such as attractive feed-in-tariffs, and substantial private investment.
The solar power project is one of a host of environmentally-friendly initiatives at the resort.
The resort has created its own onsite and chemical-free Herb Garden, Nursery Garden and Chicken Farm, providing fresh produce and eggs served at Alma’s restaurants.
In addition to engaging staff in sustainability initiatives, Alma has other measures in place to reduce its carbon footprint including a water treatment plant, electric buggy station, recycling in its garbage room and the resort’s transition to paperless solutions.
The 325sqm water treatment plant deploys a reverse osmosis system to provide 70,000L weekly of drinkable water and ice for all the resort’s kitchens.
The garbage room processes about 250 kilograms of garbage a day, including compostable waste and recyclables, reselling an average of, for example, 110 litres of cooking oil weekly to non-food businesses so that it is recycled. The resort’s 360sqm buggy station’s 36 electric buggies each take an average of six hours to charge.
About Alma
Situated on Vietnam’s emerging Cam Ranh peninsula fronting Long Beach, Alma resort commands some 30 hectares of inspiring ground. Emblematic of Vietnam's maturation as a destination, the bold and spacious integrated resort offers 580 oversized suites and pavilions that all afford sweeping vistas of the ocean, including contemporary three bedroom oceanfront pavilions each totalling 224sqm with a living room, four bathrooms and a private pool. Alma features a broad spectrum of restaurants helmed by top chefs, a food court with an array of local and international cuisine, as well as a sports bar, pool bar and beach bar. Other highlights include 12 swimming pools cascading down to the beach and a waterpark with a lazy river, slides, wave pool and kids pool. Other highlights include a 13-treatment room spa, 75-seat cinema, convention centre, amphitheater, science museum, gymnasium and yoga room, 18-hole mini golf course, a youth centre with virtual reality games, a kid’s club, golf simulator, onsite sustainable farm and even an 'Alma Mart' mini supermarket. Alma Resort was called out as the top resort in Southeast Asia, the No. 2 resort in Asia and No. 9 resort worldwide in the 2024 Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards. Alma scored 99.2 on the US-based publication’s 100-point award survey. The World’s Best Awards are widely considered to be one of the two most important awards in the worldwide hospitality industry. Alma Amphitheater hosts “The Stage – Alma Show”, a new theatrical spectacle staged daily celebrating Vietnam’s rich heritage, traditions and folklore.
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