Ramsvik’s sustainability development
Ramsvik is located in a nature reserve, which was formed by the inland ice 10,000 years ago. We do our best to preserve nature and make the impact as low as possible.
Ramsvik’s solar cell plant
In October 2019, our solar system was ready, which includes solar panels on the roof of the restaurant, the roof of the reception and on most roofs in the entire cottage village. 618 solar panels (1199 square meters) on a total of 86 separate roof surfaces will make Ramsvik Stugby & Camping self-sufficient in energy throughout the year. Estimated annual production = the facility’s total annual electricity consumption, approx. 230,000 kWh.
The amount of climate-smart, green solar energy is equivalent to the annual consumption of 15 average villas or could drive an electric car 36 times around the world.
This is the Swedish hospitality industry’s largest solar cell facility and it is completely unique that we produce our entire annual consumption. The plant is also optimized and controlled in detail at panel level via the SolarEdge system. The optimizers guarantee safety, which is a requirement from us because so many people stay here in the summer.
During the tourist season, most of the solar energy will be consumed at the facility, but during autumn, winter and spring there will be a significant surplus of green, climate-smart solar energy that is fed out for sale on the public grid.
More sustainability
In addition to the solar cell plant, we do the following to reduce our impact on the environment:
- Charging posts for electric cars
- We have low-flush shower heads in all showers in the facility.
- In several of the cottages there are “power monitors” that turn off unnecessary electricity consumption (water heater and heating) when you use the stove.
- In the service building’s shower areas, the shower is now free, but controlled by a push button that limits the time you shower. It saves hot water.
- The hot water in the service building is heated by energy from solar collectors.
- Our restaurant serves as much as possible raw materials from local suppliers, such as fish from Smögen’s fish auction and meat from Kustcharken
- As far as possible, we coordinate deliveries to restaurants and shops to get as few product deliveries as possible
- We use LED lighting wherever possible
- We pick up litter in the nature reserve
- We work to reduce food waste in the restaurant
- We recycle cardboard, glass, batteries, grease
- Our engines on the rental boats are 4-stroke boat engines
- We have an electric grass trimmer instead of petrol mowers.
- We are working on better waste sorting in dialogue with the municipality
Our guests are sustainable from a tourism industry perspective, as 80% of guests travel 50 miles or less to come to us.
Economic and social sustainability
We at Ramsvik love to collaborate with others. We have several partners in the camping industry where we develop our companies together to meet the guests’ demands and wishes more quickly. We also collaborate with several companies in our local area that complement our product and make it better. We live by:
Everyone does what they do best – We do what we do best and then we collaborate with other companies to meet the guest’s wishes. Then the guest’s experience will be better and it benefits more companies, which creates more jobs and greater contributions to the state treasury (better care, school and welfare…).
We are stronger together than alone – We do not see other companies in the industry as competitors, but as colleagues.
We share this approach with other companies in the camping industry and it benefits us all – and also the guests because we develop faster and can offer an ever better product.
We share – If there is something we are better at, we are happy to share it with others. And we are very happy that there are many other companies who think the same, it makes us all better.
We work actively with our profitability – A profitable company can work better with sustainability issues. Without the profitability, we would not have been able to build our solar plant.
We are part of the “Hållbarhetsklivet”, which works for a sustainable hospitality industry in Western Sweden.
