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This comprehensive Energy Audit Handbook as a step-by-step guide to energy auditing. It will benefit all organisations considering or carrying out an energy audit; regardless of sector, size or experience.
It will also serve as a useful reference guide for those undertaking the energy audit, be they internal or external auditors.
The handbook sets out the complete energy audit process guiding users each step of the way – from audit preparation and pre-analysis through to conducting the site visit and reporting findings.

Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology – Computer and information sciences, Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Systems engineering

Education Level: Higher education

Education Use: Professional development

Language: EN

Publisher/Institution: The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)

License type: Public Domain

Primary User: Student, Teacher

Learning resource type (IEEE LOM): Guidelines

Technical type (IEEE LOM): Text – Document

Time to read: 192min

Learning outcomes:

• Create a list of equipment to be checked;
• Acquire data relating to the consumption of the equipment present
• Evaluate the energy consumption of digital services in use
• Evaluate people’s behaviors
• Analyze the data
• Develop an energy efficiency improvement plan
• Present the results

DigComp competence area: 4. Safety – 4.4 Protecting the environment

DigComp proficiency level: 4.Tasks, and well defined and non-routine problems

Link: https://www.seai.ie/publications/SEAI-Energy-Audit-Handbook.pdf

Key words: energy audit, Energy efficiency