Tourism and leisure: golf courses and sports clubs
Golf managers, take control of your energy
During the day, the clubhouse heats its lounges, runs its kitchen, and charges golf carts; at night, the pumping system irrigates the course. A golf course's energy consumption is staggered. Sirenergies supports you in purchasing electricity and gas and adjusts your power capacity to match your irrigation seasons.
Key industry figures
Irrigation water, the primary driver of a golf course's electricity bill
Every cubic meter used to water greens and fairways is first pumped, often at night and almost always using electricity. The volume of irrigation dictates the power capacity to subscribe to and the timing for energy procurement.
Average cubic meters of irrigation water consumed annually by an 18-hole course.
Minimum daily water requirement for the greens of an 18-hole course during extreme heat.
Daily duration of irrigation bans for golf courses once a drought alert threshold is reached.
The energy profile of a golf course
The pumping station and the clubhouse share the bill
The reality: a course watered at night, a clubhouse occupied during the day
On a golf course, electricity is primarily used for pumping: boreholes, hillside reservoirs, or recycled water feed the sprinklers managed by the course superintendent. Needs vary with the climate, to the point where a golf course in the South can consume up to 200,000 m³ of water per year, while a course in the East uses less than 25,000 (FFGolf, 2023). Pumping is therefore concentrated from April to October, mainly at night. The clubhouse follows the opposite rhythm: gas or heat pump heating in winter, air conditioning in summer, and kitchen and hot water usage all year round.
Our role: aligning contracts with the course's seasons
Hardware remains the responsibility of your service providers; Sirenergies focuses on three key areas:
- Inventory: every electricity and gas meter, its account holder, its power capacity, and its cost.
- Adjust: TURPE (public electricity network usage tariff) power capacities by season and the ATRD (third-party access to gas distribution networks) option for the clubhouse.
- Support and Monitoring: competitive bidding for suppliers before the irrigation season, followed by D+1 monitoring in Pilott.
Your energy challenges
The 3 energy challenges for golf courses and sports clubs
With a pumping station sized for July nights, drought orders that shift irrigation from one week to the next, and meters split between the sports association, the operating company, and sometimes the municipality, a golf director is managing energy in the dark. Here is how Sirenergies gets everything back on track.
Energy-intensive and rarely audited irrigation pumping
Golf course irrigation accounts for approximately 36 million m³ of water consumption annually, with the associated electrical pumping rarely audited as a separate cost center.
Energy audit for pumping stations
Sirenergies analyzes your contracts and load profiles to provide an objective assessment of the actual cost of your irrigation pumping.
Poorly consolidated multi-meter setups
Golf courses and sports clubs often have multiple meters (for pumping systems, clubhouses, and outdoor lighting) that are tracked separately, without a unified overview.
Procurement and supplier tendering for multi-meter sites
Sirenergies consolidates your various meters and puts our trusted partner suppliers in competition across your entire site.
A segment almost entirely overlooked by energy consultants
The golf and sports club sector remains a niche that is rarely covered by energy consulting firms, which tend to focus on larger segments.
Energy audit and dedicated support
Sirenergies offers support specifically tailored to the constraints of this segment, rather than a generic solution.
Contractual and data expertise
Optimizing and managing contracts for your golf courses and sports clubs
From the pumping station that irrigates the course to the clubhouse restaurant, Sirenergies supports you in purchasing and monitoring electricity and gas for your golf course. Our proposals are based on your irrigation schedule, your water resources, and your playing calendar, from spring reopening to autumn competitions.
Contractual and capacity audit
Inventory of site meters, from the pumping station to the workshop, including account holder, power capacity, and expiration dates. Annual audit of electricity excise duties (formerly TICFE), natural gas excise duties (formerly TICGN), and applicable energy savings certificates (CEE).
Purchasing strategy and competitive bidding
Consulting with suppliers for pumping and clubhouse electricity, as well as heating and kitchen gas, with a price-fixing schedule set before the irrigation season rather than in the middle of summer.
Distribution optimization (TURPE / ATRD)
Electricity : for over 36 kVA, power capacity by season and time slot, so that summer night irrigation doesn't set your winter costs.
Gas : ATRD option reviewed based on clubhouse consumption. Network procedures included.
Irrigation tariff modeling
Projection of the season's electricity budget based on three irrigation hypotheses and several price scenarios. The same simulation calculates photovoltaic self-consumption on clubhouse and workshop roofs, across both your bills.
Pilott software platform
Pumping, clubhouse, and annex meters brought together on one interface: previous day's consumption, electricity and gas price alerts, budget projections, and archived contracts, with CSV or API export.
Expert advice dedicated to golf courses
A dedicated consultant monitors your markets and deadlines, prepares each irrigation season with your management team, keeps you informed of regulatory changes, and works with you to build an energy cost per cubic meter pumped.
Our platform
Pilott, simplified management to track your consumption
- Bring your pumping station, clubhouse, and annexes together on one screen
- Check the day after that your pumping consumption matches your irrigation schedule
- Receive an alert when electricity or gas reaches your price thresholds
- Simulate your seasonal budget and keep all your contracts in one place
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Methodology and definitions
What is energy consulting for a golf course?
A golf course pays all year round for the power its pumping station only needs for a few summer nights. Energy consulting for a golf course or sports club first addresses this discrepancy: it adjusts electricity power subscriptions by period and clubhouse gas capacity, assists with purchasing both energy types, and tracks consumption by usage. Sirenergies carries this out with its consultants and the Pilott platform.
A growing sport, regulated irrigation
The French Golf Federation recorded 446,547 registered members in 2025, a record (ffgolf, 2025 license statistics). The 2023 national drought guide prohibits irrigation on golf courses during crisis periods, with the exception of greens.
Three questions we address with you
- What power capacity should you subscribe to? A TURPE (public electricity grid usage tariff) power level by period, set to the highest peak during summer nights.
- When should you buy? Before the irrigation season, with price fixings spread out based on our advice.
- How do you track it? Every meter tracked the next day in Pilott, with energy costs calculated per cubic meter pumped.
How much does your summer night irrigation really cost you?
Your electricity and gas bills from the last twelve months are enough to estimate your potential savings. No obligation.
