M&C Hotels to cut 10% energy usage in all 110 properties

Learn about the plan and its tremendous savings.

In a release, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels (M&C) detailed its plans to achieve its monthly target of cutting energy usage by at least 10% or 1.2 million kilowatt per hour (kWh) in all of its 110 properties around the world. The savings is equivalent to the monthly electricity consumption of 2,350 three-bedroom flats in Singapore.

The Group’s 13 Asian properties with a total of 4,195 rooms are expected to achieve 1,390,312 kWh of energy savings each month, giving annual cost savings of S$306,775 or about S$3.68 million a year.

The energy savings plans were disclosed as the hotel group prepares to celebrate Earth Hour this year, with efforts to further cut its carbon footprint. M&C Hotels is the hospitality arm of Singapore-listed property giant City Developments Limited. Both are members of Hong Leong Group Singapore.

M&C has a global portfolio of 110 hotels with 30,939 rooms, in 70 cities in 19 countries. During Earth Hour this year, M&C’s properties worldwide will turn off external and façade lights, and set Air Handling and Fan Coil Units in common areas at 26 degrees. They will also switch off 30% of lights in non-critical areas. All this will happen as Earth Hour hits the various time zones throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and North America. These measures will be implemented for two hours from 8:00pm to 10:00pm.

In addition to this, M&C Hotels will challenge itself with a series of month-long measures such as raising temperatures of its chillers from 6.5 degrees to 7.5 degrees centigrade, dimming lights in public areas, and turning off the air-conditioning during office lunch hours, or setting the temperature at 24 degrees or higher.

Mr Kwek Leng Beng, Chairman of M&C Hotels said: “This year’s expanded global effort at energy savings is another sign of our commitment to reduce energy in all our hotels, as well as raise awareness of the importance of conserving Earth’s resources. “

“M&C is a strong supporter of Earth Hour and we try to involve our guests who are encouraged to turn up their room air conditioning by 1 degree, or turn off non-essential electrical equipment such as television and lights when not in use. Each year, we have pushed ourselves to further reduce carbon footprint and promote energy conservation practices in all our hotels,” adds Mr Kwek who is also the Executive Chairman of Hong Leong Group Singapore.