A systematic approach, to monitor industrial energy consumption and to pin-point sources of wastage, is known as Energy Audit. In the present energy scenario and the era industrial competition Energy Auditing has become a very important part of any industrial activity.
An Energy Audit Study helps an organisation to understand and analyse its energy utilisation and identify areas where energy use can be reduced, decide on how to budget energy use, plan & practice feasible energy conservation methods that will enhance their energy efficiency, curtail energy wastage and substantially reduce energy costs.
The Energy Audit serves to identify all the energy streams in a facility, qualify energy usage with its discrete functions, in an attempt to balance the total energy input with its use. Energy Audit is thus the key to a systematic approach for decision-making in the area of Energy Management. As a result, the Energy Audit Study becomes an effective tool in defining and pursuing comprehensive Energy Management Programme (EMP).
An Energy Audit Study includes
- Auditing of Energy Consumption (including any heat and power generated)
- General examination of work place (including physical condition of organisation, its processes, occupancy time, and variations in ambient
temperature and energy consumption pattern etc.)
- Measurement of all energy flows( including testing of boiler or steam raising, heating equipment, refrigeration, etc.)
- Analysis and appraisal of energy usage.(e.g. specific fuel consumption, energy-product interrelationship).
- Energy management procedures and methodology.
- Identification of energy improvement opportunities and recommendations for energy efficiency measures and quantification of implementation costs and paybacks.
- Identification of possible usages of co-generation, renewable sources of energy and recommendations for implementation, wherever possible, with cost benefit analysis.
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