Energy Audit Consultancy

What Energy Audit is usually taken with

Few organisations stop at one standard, and the second costs far less than the first — the clauses that take longest are the ones they share. Where Energy Audit sits next to something else, this is what carries over.

• ISO LA Training consultancy — shares clauses 4 to 10 with this standard, so context, leadership, competence, internal audit and management review are built once and audited together.
• ISO Training consultancy — shares clauses 4 to 10 with this standard, so context, leadership, competence, internal audit and management review are built once and audited together.
• Internal Audits and Gap Analysis consultancy — shares clauses 4 to 10 with this standard, so context, leadership, competence, internal audit and management review are built once and audited together.

Certified to more than one, you hold a single management system with one set of objectives, one internal audit programme and one management review — audited in one visit. Run as separate systems they cost roughly twice as much to keep, which is the usual reason a second certificate feels harder than it was.

Measuring where energy goes and what it costs you

An energy audit quantifies consumption across a facility, identifies where energy is wasted, and puts numbers against what recovering it would cost and save. Scope typically covers electrical distribution and power quality, motors and drives, compressed air, pumping and fans, refrigeration and air conditioning, boilers, furnaces and steam distribution, lighting, and process heat recovery. It ends in engineering recommendations with investment, saving and payback attached, not in general advice about being more efficient.

In India, designated consumers in notified energy intensive sectors must have audits conducted by accredited energy auditors under the Energy Conservation Act, and state designated agencies enforce that duty. Other organisations commission audits because tariffs have risen, because an ISO 50001 system requires an energy review, because a parent company has set a reduction target, or because a footprint exercise has just shown where the emissions come from. Hotels, hospitals, malls and commercial towers audit for the same reasons factories do.

Instrumentation, load studies and the numbers behind each recommendation

The work is instrument based. We log electrical parameters at incomers and major feeders across full production cycles, measure motor loading against rating, test compressed air for leakage, pressure drop and generation efficiency, check boiler and furnace combustion efficiency and flue losses, survey steam distribution for failed traps and insulation loss, examine chiller and refrigeration performance against design, and measure lighting levels against the task rather than counting fittings.

Measurements are turned into an energy balance, so consumption is accounted for instead of estimated, and specific energy consumption is calculated per unit of output so the site can track itself afterwards. Each opportunity is worked up individually with the engineering behind it: current condition, proposed change, expected saving in units and in currency, implementation cost, payback and any effect on production. Assumptions are stated openly so your engineers can challenge them.

A costed savings list, ranked by payback

You receive an energy balance, benchmarked specific consumption, and a list of measures ranked by payback and separated into no cost operational changes, low cost fixes and capital projects, with the detail an engineering team needs to execute or to tender. Where a statutory audit is required, the report follows the prescribed format. MSCi carries out the audit directly, and where the law requires an accredited energy auditor, that requirement is met before work starts.

Most sites find a meaningful share of their savings in operating practice and maintenance rather than in new equipment, which means the first tranche costs almost nothing: compressed air leaks, idling equipment, oversized motors running unloaded, failed steam traps, set points nobody has revisited in years. The measured baseline also settles arguments later, because claimed savings from a project can be checked against real consumption.