Energy conservation through structured audits: A quantitative approach

Conservation of energy is one of the most important ways to achieve increased productivity in today's competitive business environment. Conservation of energy is achievable through a system design to control the use of energy and monitoring and maintenance of this control system. Maintenance management can play a key role in this regard which is the subject of this article. In order to prepare an energy management program, an organization needs to identify areas with potential for improvement and audit them periodically in a structured manner to continuously evaluate for improvements. This paper provides a framework for structured audits for energy conservation. These audits will help in assessing the current status of the energy conservation quantitatively and identify major opportunities for continuous improvement.