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Clean Energy SolutionsWHL Consulting has developed a clean energy program called TDB Energy Solutions known as TDBE. TDBE is an innovative approach to deploying clean energy solutions to SMEs in the accommodation sector by performing two critical services:
TDBE works specifically in the accommodation sector because it is a large sector in the developing world and hence has a large energy footprint. In some countries and remote regions of the world, we have found energy is up to 60% of total operating costs. A reduction in the energy consumption of SME accommodation providers would go a long way toward improving their bottom line as a business, while generating significant social and environmental positive externalities. Because most of the SME accommodations in the whl.travel network are small (less than 25 rooms) family owned enterprises providing direct employment opportunities for local communities at the base of the pyramid, the positive affects to the environment and social communities are truly local. Market Intelligence TDBE has created a Market Intelligence Program that identifies and connects local clean energy suppliers with WHL’s network of accommodation providers, which today numbers over 8,000 in over 100 countries in the developing world. TDBE leverages the WHL network, technology, and proprietary tools to create and disseminate tailored, energy-specific, demand-side market intelligence reports on thousands of SME hotels, ultimately bridging the gap between under informed local clean energy providers and the underserved "missing middle" of commercial enterprises in the tourism industry. Specifically, TDBE has developed a program that
One of the major obstacles to building a sustainable business for many SME accommodation providers in the developing world is access to finance. Most SMEs do not have access for for essential business activities such as market access tools/services and retrofits/renovations needed to reduce energy consumption, let alone capital investments to switch to distributed energy generation options. In order to facilitat the required transactions for either retrofits or for energy production replacement TDBE leverages WHLC’s, innovative new financing tool, the Tourism Development Bank (TDB)... hence the name TDB Energy Solutions! ![]() |
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