Energy Audit Fundamentals
Energy costs are one of the few operating expenses where a competent afternoon of investigation regularly finds double-digit savings, and yet most facilities have never been audited properly. This day teaches the method: what to measure, where the load actually goes, which opportunities repay quickly and which have long been oversold, and how to write the finding up so that a finance director funds it rather than files it.
Programme Agenda
Audit Levels and Scoping
Walk-through, detailed and investment-grade audits, and matching the level to the decision being made. Scoping an audit so it finishes rather than sprawling across the whole site.
Reading the Bill and the Tariff
Malaysian commercial and industrial tariff structures, maximum demand charges, power factor penalties, and off-peak arrangements. Savings available from tariff optimisation before touching a single piece of equipment.
Data Collection and Metering
Portable and permanent metering, logging intervals, and what a month of half-hourly data reveals that a monthly bill hides. Working out a load profile and identifying base load that should not exist.
Where the Energy Goes
Building an energy balance across HVAC, lighting, compressed air, motors, process heat and IT load. Estimation methods where metering is not available, and how much error that introduces.
HVAC and Building Envelope
Chiller efficiency, set points, scheduling, ventilation rates, and the envelope issues that make the plant work harder. The controls changes that cost nothing and the retrofits that do not.
Compressed Air, Motors and Lighting
Leak surveys and what a leak actually costs per year, pressure set points, motor sizing and variable speed drives, and lighting retrofits with the payback maths done honestly.
Ranking by Payback and Building the Case
Simple payback, life cycle cost and internal rate of return, and which one your finance function actually uses. Ranking measures, bundling short and long payback items, and handling the measurement and verification question.
The Audit Report
Structure, the executive summary that gets read, presenting assumptions and uncertainty honestly, and the recommendation format that leads to a funded project rather than a shelved document.
Learning Outcomes:
Scope an energy audit at the right level for the decision being made
Analyse a Malaysian commercial or industrial tariff for optimisation savings
Collect and interpret load profile data to find unexplained base load
Build an energy balance across the major consuming systems
Identify savings in HVAC, compressed air, motors and lighting
Calculate payback and life cycle cost using your organisation's own criteria
Handle measurement and verification for a claimed saving
Write an audit report that results in funding
Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Beginner
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included
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