MOTU Beachfront Art Villas is part of the Green Hydrogen Project aiming to do more for the community and reduce its carbon footprint.
An open forum presentation of Green Hydrogen for Decentralised Power Supply of Hotels and Tourist Sites in the Pacific Islands was held at MOTU Beachfront Art Villas on Wednesday. Discussions included various stakeholders, as well as Cook Islands Tourism.
Villas’ manager Tim Meyer said the project is a German Chamber of Commerce (Auckland) project and financed through the German Ministry of Environment.
Meyer said that participating in the project is currently free of charge. “What their cost benefit calculation is that they are promoting products made in Germany overseas … At this stage there’s no cost for us whatsoever and the big benefit for us is that we get the data connection from our properties like the energy consumption that we have and getting analysis of our footprints and our services that we’re using.”
Meyer explained that they decided to be part of the project because they have had guests inquiring and are interested in understanding where their services such as electricity come from, and what was done with the wastewater. “When this opportunity came up to be part of a green hydrogen project where the energy is stored at green hydrogen and just produced by the sun, we were just thinking that this is just so cool because it’s cutting edge and just the pathway into a greener future.
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