Hotel energy systems are interdependent. A change to heating affects storage. A change to EV charging affects grid draw. The person who designs the system needs to understand the whole before touching any part.
A hotel runs 24 hours a day. Its energy system – heating, hot water, EV charging, lighting, generation, storage – is never idle, and none of those components operates in isolation. When BESS dispatch is optimised without accounting for the heating load, the savings on paper disappear in practice. When EV infrastructure is sized for current occupancy rather than the guest mix that occupancy implies, it fails the moment it is actually needed. Understanding the interdependencies is not a credential. It is the precondition for doing this work well.
Rune's background is in systems that cannot afford to fail, and where the person responsible for the system has no one to call. A ship's engine room is a closed energy system: generation, storage, propulsion, HVAC, hotel load, all running in parallel, all interdependent, all managed by a small crew who have to understand every component well enough to keep it working. Rune ran those systems for years. He carried the same discipline into port infrastructure – leading a €5.6 million harbour expansion to within 1.3 per cent of budget, on a working port that could not pause during construction – and then into commercial property, where he took a €33 million portfolio from 55 per cent occupancy to 99. In every case, the same method: understand the whole before touching any part.
That method is what HNordic Hotels installs. Not a collection of components, each optimised in isolation, but an integrated system with a single energy management layer that dispatches BESS, manages EV charging, optimises heating schedules against day-ahead electricity prices, and monitors the whole for faults before they become failures. Rune designs it. He stays accountable for it. The maintenance contract is not a service add-on – it is where the performance projections he made at audit are tested against what the system actually delivers.
What I bring to hotel energy systems
Most energy system problems in hotels are not component failures – they are integration failures. A heating system that performs to spec and a BESS that performs to spec can still underdeliver together if the dispatch logic does not account for heating demand. Rune reads those relationships the way he read a ship's engine room: as a system first, components second.
Hotel energy work cannot be done the way a one-off retrofit would be done. The building is occupied every day. Rune's background in live port infrastructure – managing a €5.6 million expansion on a working harbour – is the direct equivalent: complex work on an asset that cannot stop. The audit, design, and installation process is built around that constraint.
The audit produces projections. The installation is built against those projections. The maintenance contract is where they are tested. Rune monitors system performance remotely, compares it against what was projected, and investigates divergence. If the numbers do not match, he finds out why and fixes it. That is not a standard of service. It is a personal standard.
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Questions about the audit process, system design, installation, or performance monitoring – Rune takes those conversations directly.
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