Energy auditing is an essential component of the whole management process. The energy manager requires a detailed information base to work from when proposing various courses of action and evaluating their consequences. An energy audit attempts to balance the total energy inputs with its use, and it serves to identify all the energy streams in the system and quantifies energy usages according to its discrete function.
An energy audit is a useful tool for creating and implementing comprehensive energy management plans. In contrast to financial audit, which emphasizes maintaining regularity, it takes a constructive approach aimed at ongoing improvement in energy usage. Questions like, What to do, where to start, at what expense, and for what benefits are answered by an energy audit.
It has been determined that energy savings of 15 to 30 percent can be achieved by optimizing energy consumption through better housekeeping, low-cost retrofitting measures, and the use of energy-efficient equipment when replacing equipment. When compared to its counterparts in affluent countries, Indian industry utilizes more energy.