Why Must I Think about About energy efficient audit?

I know, I know, you already have so lots of things to be concerned about. Your competition is gunning for your best customer. The biggest project in your shop is behind schedule. You are concerned about the economy and anxious we are heading into another recession. Expenses are rising but you can’t increase your prices without loosing business so profit margins are non-existent. How are you going to deal with growing energy costs?

And that doesn’t even take into consideration troubles in your private life (we all suffer them).

Why should you add something in addition to your list? Since commercial energy efficiency is a low risk way to resolve some of your major problems.

Think about it. Energy costs are a key expense. If you could cut your energy spending by 25%, how much would that aid your business? What would that do for your profit margins? How much more competitive can you be if your expenses are lower?

How Can energy saving audit Assist Me?

If done right, a energy saving audit can show you how to slash your expenditures. A first-rate consultant will examine your utility bills looking for billing mistakes, needless fees, and improved rates. A excellent energy auditor can show you ways to help reduce your energy consumption (and your energy spending), and many of his recommendations will cost you little to implement. And these recommendations are low risk because the consultant quantifies the cost savings and cost to implement. You know ahead of time what to expect, and get to reap the reward of the energy savings year after year.

So What Is a ashrae energy audit?

A energy efficient audit is basically a evaluation of your company, building, in addition to utility bills by a consultant who is an expert in energy conservation. There are different levels of commercial energy audits. The most common designations are:

**Preliminary Audit: A high level look at your energy use. Your energy consumption is compared to other companies in your industry. This offers you an idea of just how much energy you could save, but doesn’t make any suggestions. **Scoping Audit: Scoping audits include an analysis of your utility bills and a quick walk through of your facility to understand your process, maintenance practices, equipment, and energy consumption. There is adequate data to find the low hanging fruit, but not sufficient to find every savings possible or to give you a high level of precision. **Comprehensive Audit: Also know as an ASHRAE Level 2 audit, a comprehensive audit picks up where a scoping audit stops. A more comprehensive walk through and analysis of your facility lets the consultant to completely look at all energy conservation potential. More importantly, because there is enough data to precisely analyze your energy consumption, the energy consultant is able to tell you how much energy your can save with a high level of accuracy. This permits you to prioritize energy conservation measures and to a great extent reduces risk. **Engineering or Investment Grade Audit: These are the most complex (i.e….expensive) audits. They are quite often used by major companies with intensive project approval processes, or by companies looking to implement major (and expensive) technologies. These include wind, solar PV (photo-voltaic), hot water heating system, solar heating system (passive & active), CHP (Combined Heat Power), CHCP (Combined Heat Cool Power), refrigeration (mechanical & absorption), heat pumps, HVAC, high performance electric motors, biomass, and small hydro-electric….Most corporations don’t need an audit at this level. The cost and time simply are too costly to justify the minor improvement in precision.

Industrial Energy Audit Services are industry leaders in commercial energy efficiency. Our decades of experience will make your commercial energy audits fast, effective, and affordable. We are so confident that we will save you money, that we guarantee that we will save you 15% or more on your energy bills. If you would like more information on ashrae energy audits or would like a quote please contact us at www.industrialenergyaudit.com.