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A Comprehensive Guide to a Successful Energy Audit

What you will learn

A comprehensive process for successfully undertaking an energy audit

A thorough process that can be used to deliver an Investment Grade Audit (IGA) or Detailed Feasibility Study (DFS)

What you need to do before the audit to keep everyone happy

How to ensure that your estimates of savings are realistic

Six principles for a successful audit

How to present your findings in a way that maximizes the chance your recommendations will be implemented

Description

Industrial and Commercial Energy Audit Process Course

Energy managers and others interested in or who are implementing ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems will find this course useful for understanding how to undertake a comprehensive energy review. It is also well suited to those who would like to undertake ISO 50002 adherent energy audits, and who need to understand what are the practical steps involved in undertaking an energy audit.

This Commercial Energy Audit Process Course is for those undertaking energy audits of commercial and industrial facilities, not applicable for residential energy audits. This course aims to provide you with a proven-effective process that may help you meet the intent of each energy audit standard.

Although our Process of Undertaking a Successful Energy Audit course does not specify calculations for savings measures, it does show you a thorough process to follow for undertaking these calculations.

Unlock the secrets to a successful energy audit that delivers results.

  • Master a comprehensive process for conducting energy audits with confidence.
  • Learn how to keep all stakeholders happy by preparing effectively.
  • Discover the six principles that pave the way for a truly successful audit.

Process of Undertaking a Successful Energy Audit Description

Energy audits can play a crucial role in ensuring that investments to improve the efficiency of existing facilities are effective. Around the world, governments encourage, support, and mandate the undertaking of energy audits.


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Unfortunately, many audits are not undertaken successfully. In fact, an evaluation of several hundred energy audits of commercial and industrial facilities undertaken in recent years in Victoria, Australia, found that roughly only 50% of the audits were successful.

In this Commercial Energy Audit Process Course, you’ll learn a comprehensive process for successfully undertaking an energy audit. You can apply this process to deliver an Investment Grade Audit (IGA) or Detailed Feasibility Study (DFS).

Why and How This Course Has Been Developed

We developed this Commercial Energy Audit Process Course because far too many energy audits have low implementation rates, fail to thoroughly investigate all savings opportunities, and costs and savings are sometimes poorly estimated.

Your instructor is an energy auditor with more than two decades of experience and has undertaken energy audits, including IGAs/DFSs of hundreds of facilities:

  • Offices
  • Schools
  • Hotels
  • Hospitals
  • Restaurants
  • Municipal buildings
  • Factories
  • Food manufacturers
  • Chemical manufacturers
  • Primary producers

He has assisted energy users achieve measured reductions in their energy use of up to 80%.

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Content

Introduction to delivering a successful audit

Introduction – what is a successful audit
The 6 principles that when applied will help ensure your audit is a success
Audit safety – or how to avoid a sore head, hearing loss and death

What you do before the audit to keep everyone happy

How to understand and educate your client
How to prepare an audit quotation
Communicate clearly what you need (and why this is important)
Set expectations at the start to avoid explosions later
Develop a timetable

Engaging with the energy user – avoid this at your peril!

Who to engage with
Workshops, meetings, phone calls, emails – more than nice to have

Data collection. Boring yes. Essential? Of course!

Why you need data
Data needed for baselining and an energy use breakdown
Should I use data loggers and temporary meters?
Data needed to identify savings opportunities

Data analysis – the fun bit!

Baseline using billing data analysis
How to determine tariff rates to apply to savings
Example bill analysis – Australia
Benchmarking energy use – clients love this!
Determining drivers of energy use so you know where the big fish are.
Interval data analysis to find quick wins.
How to extract useful information from plans
Managing missing data
Preparing an energy use breakdown (you want to be accurate, right?)

Preparing the business case

Overview of what the business case requires
Applying the energy efficiency hierarchy to identify energy savings
How to get input from site users
How to quantify energy savings
How to identify and quantify non-energy savings
How to verify that savings opportunities are reasonable
How to determine the costs of the energy savings measures.
Estimating uncertainty to better manage risk
How to estimate emissions savings
Preparing and tabulating the business case
Present the economic benefit in 3 different ways

Reporting and presenting your findings

After all the work you’re now on stage – the energy audit presentations
Preparing the energy audit report

After the Audit

Follow up if you want energy to be saved
Identifying the savings achieved (and losses avoided!)
Congratulations on completing the course!

Bonus Lesson

Bonus Lesson