Energy Saving Audit is the best kept secret to maximizing your commercial energy efficiency...and your profits!
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Why Must I Be concerned About business energy audit?
I know, I know, you already have so a lot of things to be concerned about. Your competition is gunning for your top customer. The chief project in your shop is behind schedule. You are anxious about the financial system and concerned we are heading into another depression. Expenses are rising but you can't raise your prices without loosing business so profit margins are non-existent. How are you going to deal with mounting energy costs?
And that doesn't even take into consideration troubles in your personal life (we all have them).
Why should you add something else to your list? Since industrial energy efficiency is a low risk method to resolve some of your leading problems.
Think about it. Energy costs are a major expenditure. If you could slash your energy spending by 25%, how much would that aid your business? What would that do for your profit margins? How much more competitive will you be if your costs are lower?
How Can business energy audit Assist Me?
If done right, a energy saving audit can show you how to cut your expenditures. A good quality consultant can examine your utility bills searching for billing mistakes, needless fees, along with better rates. A good energy auditor can show you ways to lower your energy consumption (and your energy spending), and many of his recommendations will cost you little to execute. And these suggestions are low risk because the consultant quantifies the savings and cost to put into operation. 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 energy saving audit?
A energy saving audit is simply a examination of your company, building, along with utility bills by a consultant who is a specialist in energy conservation. There are several levels of commercial energy audits. The most popular designations are:
**Preliminary Audit: A high level look at your energy use. Your energy consumption is compared to other corporations in your industry. This offers you an idea of the amount of energy you could save, but doesn't make any suggestions. **Scoping Audit: Scoping audits include an examination of your utility bills and a brief walk through of your facility to grasp your process, maintenance procedures, 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 accuracy. **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 allows the consultant to fully examine all energy conservation potential. More importantly, since there is sufficient data to precisely analyze your energy consumption, the energy consultant is able to tell you how much energy your will save with a high degree of precision. This allows you to prioritize energy conservation measures and greatly reduces risk. **Engineering or Investment Grade Audit: These are the most complicated (i.e....expensive) audits. They are most often used by major corporations with intensive project approval procedures, or by corporations looking to implement major (and high-priced) technology. 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 efficiency electric motors, biomass, and small hydro-electric....Most corporations don't need an audit at this level. The expense and time simply are too steep to justify the small improvement in precision.
About the Author
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.
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