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Energy Audit
Kelcroft's energy audits helps lower your building and operating costs, without sacrificing occupational comfort. It reduces pollution and your impacts on the environment.
Commissions are undertaken range from the small energy assessments to major projects.
Surveys
indicate that more than seventy five
percent (75%) of buildings
are operating incorrectly, have inappropriate operating and maintenance
contracts or are waste money through inefficient energy usage. And all
too often the energy management systems installed to reduce operating
costs, don't function as intended adding to further wasted energy.
You wouldn't operate your business without the advice of an accountant to oversee your finances would you? Likewise an annual energy audit ensures that your energy cheque book is balanced too.
Energy costs rise every year, tariffs increases are
threatened, and oil prices are soaring, these effect your bottom line -
Kelcroft energy audit helps identify waste and reduce your energy
bills.
Why
Should I Get an Energy Audit?
Most of us
know
about low-flow shower heads, CFLs and unplugging our cell phone
chargers when not in use, but there is so much more. Real savings need
a professional auditor to help locate and remedy.
An
energy audit is also an appropriate tool if you are considering an
energy efficiency or renewable energy project. The audit can help you
decide whether or not these projects are truly worthwhile.
Approach
Kelcroft's approach takes a holistic view, a total energy
approach. Our energy audit considers the total picture, not just the
low hanging fruit - an overall energy cost in use perspective.
The goal is management of resources without
sacrificing end-user
comfort. Our energy audits are conducted in accordance with
international standards, and local EMSD guidelines as required. Energy
auditing needs to be conducted on the ground, energy can't be saved
without inspecting the nuts and bolts on site.
Energy Losses
Finding and identifying energy waste, energy auditing reveals the underlying losses, don't be left in the dark.
Lost Maintenance
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High Rise Waste
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Energy Auditing
An energy audit is the systematic review of each fuel, and
energy consuming system in your building or facility.
It
commences with the collection, and analysis
of all information
that may effect your buildings energy consumption. That data
is analyzed, the condition and performance of existing systems
examines and existing management techniques reviewed.
Then we compare your facilities energy
performance with published standards (benchmarks) for your premises and
activities of a similar nature and
provide proposals that are financially viable to lower cost and energy
consumption.
An
energy audit is not an
excuse for cutting energy consumption, rather managing the usage to
maintain and or improve
occupant comfort. Also the auditor will review the existing energy
system efficiencies.
An annual energy audit is
much like your annual accountant review, stating the past and current
energy balance.
Energy Audit Report
The result of the energy audit is the audit report, Kelcroft's energy audit report includes our findings, and is sub-divided into three energy management sections, namely:
Within these three sectors, we explain energy saving options and opportunities for your review and implementation.
Housekeeping
Housekeeping measures are low cost / no cost measures improvements involving relatively simple steps to start achieving energy savings. For example training courses to increase energy consumption awareness amongst your staff.
Operation Measures
Operating and Maintenance measures are recommended
improvements that necessitate some change within your
existing regime or
maintenance strategy.
For example lighting modifications, improved
the switching arrangement
or implementing a new lamp replacement strategy benefiting from the
efficacy of the latest technology. Or perhaps re-commissioning to
recover lost capacity.
In the majority of cases, the working environment for your
customers is improved..
Capital Works
Capital works are major improvements to your premises or
systems that will require significant expenditure.
Examining your installation, analyzing your
operating and maintenance
costs, and evaluating possible options for energy
conservation.
Financially viable proposals that will benefit you! are offered for appraisal. There is not one correct answer for each client, each has different needs and goals. For example switching to water cooled air conditioning (cooling towers) under the Hong Kong pilot programme or consideration of cost effective cogeneration solutions or perhaps waste 2 energy systems.
Energy Audit Financial Analysis
The energy analysis would comprise a practical and economic
evaluation of viable energy saving options. This evaluation would
include an investigation of all the various elements that contribute to
your owning and operating costs.
Typically these would comprise:
Each of the elements would be
analyzed to gauge the
overall economic
viability of a particular energy-saving strategy or programme.
Initial expenditure
Defines the money required to purchase the plant or equipment
(CAPex).
Cost in use
Cost in use is the operating and running costs for the
installation based on the data retrieved during the energy audit
(OPex.)
Investment analysis
Investment analysis comprises fiscal, payback and net present
value calculations, these tools are primarily used to establish if a
proposal would recoup your investment during a specific period.
Payback hurdles would be established to meet
the needs of the
organisation.
Energy Audit Experience
Kelcroft's long standing expertise can help implementation of energy audit recommendations, particularly our experience providing E&M capital works projects.
We are unique because our knowledge, gained across three continents, is backed up with our experience from nearly thirty years building services design and operation. We help organisations lower their operating cost so they can leverage that competitive advantage in the market place.
Our
experience includes commercial buildings, hotels, retail, data
centres, and factories in Hong Kong and China.
What next?
Call Kelcroft to order
your energy audit today, our Hong Kong
office telephone is +(852) 2335 9830, or share
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