Industrial Energy Audit

An Industrial Energy Audit is intended as an auditing model for industrial facilities in which the processes’ energy use and efficiency examination is not considered to be necessary. This may be because a processes’ energy efficiency is otherwise ensured or its energy costs are low). In this case the energy use of the production process is examined using auditing only to the extent that its share can be presented in the distribution of overall consumption.

The Industrial Energy Auditing investigates and reports on all technology serving the processes and the building’s energy saving possibilities of savings impacts and pay back periods.

Results for 2000-2005

Indicated saving potentials Energy use <500 GWh/a (65 facilities)
Heat	16 %
Electricity	6 %
Water	4 %

The table data are based on the situation survey of energy auditing.

Choice of energy auditing model for industrial buildings and plants

According to the Ministry of Employment and the Economy’s (MEE) general guidelines for energy auditing, the following industrial sector auditing models can be chosen depending on the annual costs (without VAT) of the energy and water in the audited facilities and plants:

0-15,000 €/a – Building Energy Inspection;
15,000-35,000 €/a – Building energy Inspection, Industrial energy audit, Industrial energy analysis;
35,000-1,400,000 €/a – Industrial energy audit or Industrial energy analysis;
1,400,000-3,000,000 €/a – Industrial energy analysis only;
Over 3,000,000 €/a – Industrial energy analysis or Process industry energy analysis.

Industrial Energy Audit’s subsidized share of labour costs

Energy auditing must be carried out by following the MEE’s general guidelines and the model audit guidelines. The resources needed for the audit is determined case-by-case on the basis of the plants production dimensions, variations, etc. The MEE’s general guidelines on energy auditing set the share of labour costs of the energy audit, for which it is possible to receive a subsidy. The subsidized share of a building energy audit’s labour costs is determined on the basis of the energy costs of the plant according to the subsidy tabulation in the MEE general guidelines.

Specimen report

There is no specimen report for industrial energy auditing as there is for the building energy auditing model, but an enlarged list of contents of the report is available.