Seam TV Newspaper and The stock exchange has focused on, the restaurant and cafe industry has come under pressure to switch off the heat and gas lamps when serving outside, as they put pressure on the power supply and do not contribute to the green transition.
- However, outdoor dining is an important part of the industry's business, and many guests want to sit outside, says Mikal Holt Jensen, environmental manager at HORESTA and head of the secretariat for Green Key, who adds:
- But a lot can be done to reduce energy consumption in connection with outdoor heating. The structure of the outdoor space can be looked at, that outdoor heating becomes more need-based and more efficient types of heating can be looked at.
In short, they lack solutions that can address the need to reduce energy consumption. One of them is StaySeat's heating pad – a simple, sustainable and effective solution developed by entrepreneurs from DTU:
- We have just completed a number of successful tests, and are now ready to help restaurants and cafes to lower both the costs of outdoor dining and CO 2 emissions (...). The goal is to help the entire industry to maintain outdoor dining and at the same time save significantly on energy, gas and not least on money – while at the same time they can continue their green transition, says CEO Jon Sødergreen.
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