Energy Audit
Deciding What Energy Efficiency Steps You Need To Take
Do You need an Energy Audit?
Information on Energy Audits
There is widespread agreement that there are many practical steps that can be taken to improve sustainability and energy efficiency. Popular solutions range from staff training to energy efficiency software, and the installation of energy efficient equipment. But what is right for one organisation won’t necessarily be right for another.
To help Energy Action Group members identify their most pressing needs, the EAG has produced a Desktop Survey to help highlight areas for improvement and provide ideas and analysis on how to evolve a continuous efficiency plan.
Managing demand and implementing energy efficiency measures could save up to 30% of your energy consumption.
The first step in addressing your energy consumption and carbon emissions is to gain the best possible understanding of how, why and when you use gas, electricity, and water in your buildings. The best way to do this is with an Energy Audit, the first phase of which can be carried as a desktop exercise in partnership with an EAG Energy Manager.
An Energy Audit will help you understand and appreciate your building’s performance, on-site staff activities, internal processes, and current energy usage patterns. The information can be mapped against your energy consumption data. This 45-minute exercise will provide clarity and insight into staff attitudes and your biggest areas of consumption where you may be wasting energy.
A subsequent site inspection will identify all questionable aspects of your buildings and processes that could influence energy performance. Planned initiatives can be supported by collated evidence and used to quantify the benefits.
Energy Audit Services
The Energy Action Group provides a complete Energy Management and Audit service designed to monitor and reduce energy consumption for charities, businesses, and industrial sites throughout the UK. We establish your current energy performance, identify critical issues, and deliver remedies to underlying problems.
Our solutions are designed to deliver energy savings and reductions in carbon emissions. This ongoing process ensures that results are maintained and refined over time, leading to reliable, long-term performance.
As a picture emerges from the results, the information provides verifiable evidence helping to further develop your road-map.
By targeting the easy wins, such as energy wastage, you can progress with incremental steps to larger projects as your budget allows.
An Energy Audit will verify your overall energy usage in a coherent and logical way. The information gained provides quantifiable information to target areas of energy wastage. and identify viable solutions to help save energy in your business.
The initial desktop analysis creates a useful appraisal of your position and is effective in identifying areas of concern.
Before deciding what energy efficiency steps to take, make sure you identify and eliminate energy wastage.
The initial survey will take place by telephone and it is essential to have the support and collaboration of the management.
It will require the time of someone familiar with the organisations and its processes. This person should set aside approximately 30 minutes to help us obtain as much information as possible and have copies of bills and supply contracts at hand if possible.
REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
As the climate change agenda gathers pace, many Charities and Community Businesses are thinking about how to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions and start reducing them.