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Energy Audits

Powering Tomorrow - Understand Your Energy Use So That You Can Manage It

Unlock the Power of Energy Audits for Your Facility’s Future

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Energy audits are rapidly becoming an essential tool for institutional and commercial facilities looking to cut costs and boost operational efficiency. By identifying areas of energy waste and recommending actionable improvements, energy audits offer a cost-effective solution for maintenance and engineering managers to optimize energy use in existing buildings.

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With the guidance of the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineering (ASHRAE), we provide three comprehensive levels of energy audits tailored to meet your needs. Whether you're aiming to reduce overhead, meet sustainability goals, or enhance energy efficiency, our audits will deliver actionable insights that bring long-term savings and environmental benefits.

Discover the potential of your building today. Contact PowerSource to schedule your energy audit and start saving.

Manager at Construction Site

Level 1: Pre-Feasibility Audit

Also referred to as a walk-through energy audit, this audit level is characterized by:

  • Rapid assessment of building energy systems

  • Building energy benchmarking & rule of thumb savings calculations

  • High-level definition of energy system optimization

  • Outlining applicable incentive programs

  • Develop a target list for more significant investment options

  • Define scope for a more detailed audit

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If you need a general idea of how much energy you could seek to save through energy opportunities, this is the audit level.

Industrial Engineer

Level 2: Operational Energy Audit

The operational or detailed energy audit is geared towards delivering more details to a person or facility with a more committed energy management program but who may not be looking at extensive expenditure on replacing major equipment and services. The audit characteristics include:

  • Detailed survey of systems and operations

  • Breakdown of energy source and end use

  • Identification of EE/RE options for each system

  • Range of savings and costs for each measure

  • Spotlight on operational discrepancies

Technicians at Work

Level 3: Investment-Grade Audit

The investment grade audit - IGA, is focused on longer term energy processes and usually focuses on in-depth energy analysis of equipment efficiencies and capital expenditure opportunities with associated financing options and ROI. This audit level is very involved with organizational finance and decision team and is characterized by:

  • Longer term data collection and energy analysis

  • Whole-building computer simulation calibrated with field data

  • Accurate modeling of sustainable energy measures and power/energy response

  • Bid-level construction cost estimates

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