What is an energy audit?
An energy audit is the first step to assess how much energy your home or business consumes, and to evaluate what measures you can take to become more energy-efficient. During an energy audit, one of our certified energy auditors will inspect your home or business, looking not only for areas where energy may be “escaping” from your building, but where your current energy usage can be reduced. An audit will show you problems that may, when corrected, save you significant amounts of money over time. Depending on your home or business, an energy audit will provide: • An analysis of your current energy usage. • First steps for action. • Low-cost or no-cost energy saving actions such as sealing gaps, adjusting thermostats, and cleaning filters. • An analysis of your current energy usage. • Less than five-year payback energy saving actions such as weather-stripping and caulking.
A home energy audit determines how much energy your home uses, and how it loses energy through air leaks, missing insulation, and other factors. A home energy audit also determines the efficiency of your home’s heating and cooling systems, as well as your hot water heater. These can be major factors in your heating and air conditioning costs, and you costs for hot water. We examine all aspects of your home, and how you use it that affect your energy costs, and tell you how to lower your costs without lowering your standard of living. Most importantly, an audit will show you problems that will, when corrected, continue to save you money in your energy bills for the rest of the time you live in the house. Some things will save a significant amount of money while some may save a little.
An energy audit is a preliminary activity towards instituting energy efficiency programs in an establishment. It consists of activities that seek to identify conservation opportunities preliminary to the development of an energy savings program. The Role of an Energy Audit To institute the correct energy efficiency programs, you have to know first which areas in your establishment unnecessarily consume too much energy, e.g. which is the most cost-effective to improve. An energy audit identifies where energy is being consumed and assesses energy saving opportunities – so you get to save money where it counts the most. In the factory, doing an energy audit increases awareness of energy issues among plant personnel, making them more knowledgeable about proper practices that will make them more productive. An energy audit in effect gauges the energy efficiency of your plant against “best practices”. When used as a “baseline” for tracking yearly progress against targets, an energy audit bec
An energy audit is a process of gathering information about the construction and operation of a school to determine how it uses energy and identify opportunities that would lower the energy use. In general, an auditor will study construction drawings and specifications, visit the school and record information about the installed equipment and talk with people about how the school is run. Using this information, the auditor will use standard math modeling techniques to identify how energy is used. He or she will identify what equipment can be replaced or modified and what operational changes can reduce the energy use.
An energy audit is the first step to assess how much energy your home or business consumes, and to evaluate what measures you can take to become more energy-efficient. During an energy audit, one of our certified energy auditors will inspect your home or business, looking not only for areas where energy may be “escaping” from your building, but where your current energy usage can be reduced. An audit will show you problems that may, when corrected, save you significant amounts of money over time.
