The energy audit evaluates the efficiency of all building and process systems that use energy. The energy auditor starts at the utility meters, locating all energy sources coming into a facility. The auditor then identifies energy streams for each fuel, quantifies those energy streams into discrete functions, evaluates the efficiency of each of those functions, and identifies energy and cost savings opportunities.

An energy audit serves the purpose of identifying where a building or plant facility uses energy and identifies Energy Conservation Measures (ECM) .

The goals of the energy audit are:

• To clearly identify the types and costs of energy use
  
• To understand how the energy is being used - and possibly wasted
  
• To identify and analyze various ECM alternatives such as improved operational techniques and/or new equipment that could substantially reduce energy costs, and
  
• To perform an economic analysis on those alternatives and determine which ones are cost effective for the business or industry involved.
  

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   Gathering all historical databases from Energy Bills to production data (for industry), occupancy rate (for Hotels).
2. Gathering all facility layout, description, processes, operational hours
   
3. Perform a full load inventory on all electrical load from lighting to HVAC, motors, resistive equipment…
   
4. Perform real time and historical measurement (Data logging) on all important electrical loads and distribution panels
   
5. Perform all thermal energy analysis from steam distribution system to the hot water system and various furnaces and burners within a plant
   
6. Build an Energy Simulation of the facility using an Energy Analysis software. This modeling will allow us to have a detailed load and cost breakdown along an in depth study on the consumption of the facility
   
7. Analyze all Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) that can be utilized in the project. The analysis includes an economical feasibility study for every action. Only those yielding a quick Return On Investment will be kept.
   
8. Implement the above chosen ECMs in the Energy Analysis software and perform the total project analysis including all the economical related figures
   
9. Print a comprehensive proposal that would be divided into 3 parts:
   1. Analysis of the existing situation of the client - including description of the facility and project, the full equipment list along the detailed load and cost breakdown (per load category)
      
   2. Detailed description of the chosen Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs)
      
   3. Project analysis including savings calculation, payback period, project cost, financing options and savings measurement and verification methodologies.