Process Of Undertaking A Successful Energy Audit

Unlock the secrets to a successful energy audit that delivers results.

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

Requirements

Zero Prerequisites

Anyone interested in becoming an energy auditor has the right to enroll this course

Description

Industrial and Commercial Energy Audit Process CourseThis 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.Process of Undertaking a Successful Energy Audit DescriptionEnergy 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 DevelopedWe 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:OfficesSchoolsHotelsHospitalsRestaurantsMunicipal buildingsFactoriesFood manufacturersChemical manufacturersPrimary producersHe has assisted energy users achieve measured reductions in their energy use of up to 80%.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to delivering a successful audit

Lecture 1 Introduction – what is a successful audit

Lecture 2 The 6 principles that when applied will help ensure your audit is a success

Lecture 3 Audit safety – or how to avoid a sore head, hearing loss and death

Section 2: What you do before the audit to keep everyone happy

Lecture 4 How to understand and educate your client

Lecture 5 How to prepare an audit quotation

Lecture 6 Communicate clearly what you need (and why this is important)

Lecture 7 Set expectations at the start to avoid explosions later

Lecture 8 Develop a timetable

Section 3: Engaging with the energy user – avoid this at your peril!

Lecture 9 Who to engage with

Lecture 10 Workshops, meetings, phone calls, emails – more than nice to have

Section 4: Data collection. Boring yes. Essential? Of course!

Lecture 11 Why you need data

Lecture 12 Data needed for baselining and an energy use breakdown

Lecture 13 Should I use data loggers and temporary meters?

Lecture 14 Data needed to identify savings opportunities

Section 5: Data analysis – the fun bit!

Lecture 15 Baseline using billing data analysis

Lecture 16 How to determine tariff rates to apply to savings

Lecture 17 Example bill analysis - Australia

Lecture 18 Benchmarking energy use – clients love this!

Lecture 19 Determining drivers of energy use so you know where the big fish are.

Lecture 20 Interval data analysis to find quick wins.

Lecture 21 How to extract useful information from plans

Lecture 22 Managing missing data

Lecture 23 Preparing an energy use breakdown (you want to be accurate, right?)

Section 6: Preparing the business case

Lecture 24 Overview of what the business case requires

Lecture 25 Applying the energy efficiency hierarchy to identify energy savings

Lecture 26 How to get input from site users

Lecture 27 How to quantify energy savings

Lecture 28 How to identify and quantify non-energy savings

Lecture 29 How to verify that savings opportunities are reasonable

Lecture 30 How to determine the costs of the energy savings measures.

Lecture 31 Estimating uncertainty to better manage risk

Lecture 32 How to estimate emissions savings

Lecture 33 Preparing and tabulating the business case

Lecture 34 Present the economic benefit in 3 different ways

Section 7: Reporting and presenting your findings

Lecture 35 After all the work you’re now on stage - the energy audit presentations

Lecture 36 Preparing the energy audit report

Section 8: After the Audit

Lecture 37 Follow up if you want energy to be saved

Lecture 38 Identifying the savings achieved (and losses avoided!)

Lecture 39 Congratulations on completing the course!

Section 9: Bonus Lesson

Lecture 40 Bonus Lesson

For those undertaking energy audits of commercial and industrial facilities (it is not a course for home energy audits), in any country,For anyone who already undertakes energy audits, or for someone who already undertakes energy audits,If you are new to energy auditing, or have only done a few audits, undertaking this course should save you a great deal of effort and learning by trial and error