The Best First Step For Reducing Energy Costs

With what appears to be an always-increasing cost for purchasing energy, businesses throughout Australia have renewed an interest in effective management plans. The best method toward developing such a plan is to take advantage of the energy consulting services through a company like NSF Electric.

With what appears to be an always-increasing cost for purchasing energy, businesses throughout Australia have renewed an interest in effective management plans. The best method toward developing such a plan is to take advantage of the energy consulting services through a company like NSF Electric.

Rates Will Rise

As a business owner, you will never have the ability to control rate increases. However, obtaining a usage audit for your business facility can reveal valuable information that will help you conserve energy through implementing an effective management program. Typical operating energy savings can run from 15-30 percent. If you are a business owner or responsible for the building operations of a healthcare facility, school, church or other highly trafficked area, obtaining a commercial energy audit will help run the building more cost efficiently. Conducting such an audit will result in substantial savings, almost immediately as well as into the future. Obtaining a certified audit from an energy consulting firm will lead to developing a management plan that will not only enhance facility comfort levels while reducing your carbon footprint and lower monthly utility costs. In short, you will also enhance your bottom line - comfortably doing so.

What Does a Commercial Energy Audit Include?

There are several methodologies involved conducting a successful commercial energy audit:

Identify, list and assess all plumbing, electrical and mechanical equipment and facility ductwork. Information gathered includes equipment manufacturer, declared and actual operating efficiency ratings, condition and age plus maintenance history
Conducting a blower door test to assess a building's effective insulation and air sealing
Building air exchange assessment
Identify, list and assess all building lighting systems
Identify, list and assess all motor-driven machinery noting declared and actual operating efficiencies
Review all building construction blueprints noting any modification history

Providing a Comprehensive Energy Management Plan

All facility energy audits provide the needed information toward developing a comprehensive commercial energy management program. Such a plan will contain prioritized recommendations for initiating activity toward obtaining the maximum amount of energy savings possible. An effective plan should include:

A fully realistic recommendation list for investing in facility energy-related issues that deliver the best return on your investment to savings ratio
An outline for implementing the best and least expensive energy-saving choices
List of executed activities resulting in immediate cost savings defined by time, such as within six months, a year or within another declared time period
Recommendations for an improvement plan requiring higher capital investment that results in an accumulative effect for facility energy savings

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