NESC, which just joined the U.S. Green Building Council and the Green Hotels Association, creates energy efficient practices and technologies for telecommunications systems, demand response systems, and laundry and lighting. It aims to prove that energy efficient is also cost effective and profitable.

If using NESC's Ozone Laundry System, hotels could cut laundry costs in half and save more than 70% in hot water reduction. The company states that the average 250-room hotel can save $36,000 per month with this laundry system. NESC has already installed more than 400 Ozone Laundry Systems in nursing facilities, and installed its first system in a Hilton Hotel in October.

Hotels are going greener by the day for various reasons (to attract more guests, for publicity, to save money, and yeah, to save the earth). But at the very least, companies behind clean and energy efficient technologies should consider it a major success when those efforts result in saving huge sums of money. If more businesses and industries are to become more environmentally friendly, it simply must be profitable.

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