Hotels, restaurants and leisure businesses operate in a competitive market where margins matter. Energy is a significant operational cost that can be optimised with the right strategy.
COMCAM helps hospitality businesses get a grip on energy costs while working towards their sustainability targets.
We see the same pattern in every sector. A market that keeps moving, what your connection and your own profile allow, and where sustainability has to take you. Each on its own is manageable. The bigger problems arise where they overlap, and that is where most of our work is.
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Decarbonising a site without grid headroom means shaving peaks first and replacing installations second, as at 't Zusje in Terneuzen.
How COMCAM helps
One portfolio, one team: analysis, strategy, trading and risk management across all three forces.
For most hospitality businesses the energy bill is not driven by the dining room — it is driven by the walk-in fridge and the freezer that run around the clock, invisibly, long after the last guest has left. On top of that constant cooling load sits a sharp peak from kitchen equipment concentrated in a few service hours, so the profile follows the opening hours almost exactly. Two things are pushing that profile higher right now: the shift to all-electric cooking, and a grid connection that a growing number of locations find is already at capacity. Because margins are thin and the owner is rarely the one checking the market — or tracking whether the site still meets its Recognised Measures List (Erkende Maatregelenlijst) obligations — a contract or setting that doesn't fit the profile is easy to miss.
COMCAM provides centralised energy management for hospitality chains and individual establishments. We manage procurement across all locations, optimise contracts, and identify opportunities site by site.
COMCAM has seen this play out directly: at 't Zusje in Terneuzen, owner Joost d'Hondt turned to COMCAM during the energy crisis, when unpredictable prices and thin margins made the bill unmanageable on his own. Bringing in a knowledge partner, rather than switching suppliers again, is what carried the business through it. That is the model: a single-location owner does not need to become an energy expert, but does need someone who translates the market into a next step.
A strong energy strategy starts with the actual profile of your sector, not with a standard contract offer.
Multi-site consumption, refrigeration, kitchen equipment, HVAC, opening hours and strong margin pressure.
Cooling, HVAC, charging and opening-hour patterns can often be optimised without making the operation more complex.
COMCAM applies its full Energy Portfolio Management approach to optimise energy performance in your sector.
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