Here is how Hungarian spas will combat rising energy prices

A lot of people are feeling the effects of energy prices, and spas are certainly no exception. For this reason, several thermal spas in Hungary are trying to improve their energy efficiency, as they could not survive for long without any cost-saving decisions.

Zoltán Balogh, the Secretary of the Hungarian Spa Association, said that spas are trying to fight the spiralling energy prices according to their own abilities and resources. According to him, given Hungary’s resources, several spas could make efficient use of thermal energy of the thermal water for energy management purposes.

The implementation of energy efficiency

Balogh told InfoRadio in a brief interview that since the heat pumps used to utilise heat energy are quite energy-intensive, the additional energy costs have to be met somehow.

The installation of solar panels is a perfect solution for this problem,

he added.

These investments can be achieved by the operators of the spas from their own resources and partly from grant resources. He also pointed out that some grants were already available in 2022. Furthermore, as he said, the association also advocated these grant opportunities, so that as many spas as possible could have access to them, since plenty of them would not be able to operate without any support.