It's official: Denmark has the world's greenest hotel :: EnergyPortal.eu

It's official: Denmark has the world's greenest hotel :: EnergyPortal.eu

Denmark's first CO2 neutral hotel building, the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers, located in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, has been named 'The World's Greenest Hotel' by Skål International, the world's largest travel and tourist organisation, reports Ritzau. The 4 star hotel won the EcoTourism Award 2010 in the Urban Accommodation category, thus affirming its exemplary status as an environmentally-conscious model for the hotel industry. Less than a year old, The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers is a beacon of green innovation from top to bottom. Its electricity is supplied by Northern Europe's largest facade-mounted photovoltaic solar cell plant, while below ground lies its unique technology for regulating the building's indoor climate - Denmark's first groundwater-based cooling and heating system. The rooms are equipped with low energy TVs and lighting, and all the shampoo bottles, toothbrushes and shower caps are biodegradable. The restaurant uses local ingredients for its menus, and all kitchen waste is used as feedstock for producing biogas and fertiliser. And in the fitness centre, guests can use exercise bicycles that generate electricity for use in the building.