An energy audit is recommended to determine the energy consumption associated with a facility and the potential savings associated with that energy consumption.
From a general point of view, an energy audit provides enormous benefits in different areas:
- It helps reduce energy costs in your facility.
- With a reduction in production costs, the competitiveness of your company will be improved.
- It helps reduce the dependence on foreign energy sources.
- It helps reduce environmental damage and pollution.
- It can increase the security of your energy supply.
- It can reduce the consumption of natural resources.
- It can reduce damage to the environment associated with the exploitation of resources.
- It helps reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions.
At a particular level, among the major benefits of doing an energy audit are:
- It helps you to lower energy bills.
- It enables you to increase the comfort of those in the facility.
- It helps you to increase the life span of the equipment in your facility.
- It discovers any unaccounted consumption that may exist at the facility.
In summary, an energy audit can identify energy consumption and energy costs of the facility and it can evolve over time to develop measures to eliminate waste, maximize efficiency and optimize supply energy.
The energy audit affects three key factors:
- profitability through optimization of energy expenditure
- productivity through optimization of equipment and processes
- performance, thanks to the rationalization of energy use.
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Answer by Helen Santalla (Creara)
My husband and I are thinking about getting a title 24 energy audit done on our home because we think that it would help save us money to make our home more energy-efficient. I like that you said that an energy audit can reduce damage to the environment associated with the exploitation of resources. I think that it would be nice to reduce our impact on the environment because anything that can be done to help preserve resources and better use them is a step in the right direction.
Making sure all lights are LED, adding solar with battery backup ( the battery backup is important, and most don’t do this) and replacing all existing windows with dual pane with nonmetal dual pane is going to give you the most bang for your buck.