A Comprehensive Guide to a Successful Energy Audit
Industrial and Commercial Energy Audit Process Course
What you’ll 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.
Course Content
- Introduction to delivering a successful audit –> 3 lectures • 16min.
- What you do before the audit to keep everyone happy –> 5 lectures • 13min.
- Engaging with the energy user – avoid this at your peril! –> 2 lectures • 4min.
- Data collection. Boring yes. Essential? Of course! –> 4 lectures • 26min.
- Data analysis – the fun bit! –> 9 lectures • 57min.
- Preparing the business case –> 11 lectures • 55min.
- Reporting and presenting your findings –> 2 lectures • 8min.
- After the Audit –> 3 lectures • 11min.
- Bonus Lesson –> 1 lecture • 2min.
Requirements
Industrial and Commercial Energy Audit Process Course
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.
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%.