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An ONLINE energy audit can show you how to save up to 50%on your electricity and gas bills (i.e. energy bills).
The ONLINE energy audit is done entirely via online/fax/postal correspondence. Therefore, due to the low expenses involved, this generally suits business managers wanting a quick & economical, yet professional service. However:

an online audit also suits business managers who do not want close inspections by outside persons onsite (e.g. due to confidential work processes etc), or

an online audit also suits businesses from remotely-located areas where an onsite visit from an Energy Efficiency Consultant may be too expensive.

We can do an online energy audit for any size business, anywhere in Australia.

We have used our considerable energy auditing experiences over the last 15-years to develop special energy audit software and energy audit systems for ONLINE audits that now allow us to highly streamline our energy auditing processes. The benefits of the improvements are now passed on to you the customer in the form of lower fees.

See also our ONSITE energy audits where your energy situations are closely examined and analyzed at your business site: www.energyconservation.com.au [ONSITE Energy Audits]

ONLINE energy audit results

ONLINE Energy Audit reports for:	Annual energy bill savings identified	Annual greenhouse gas savings identified (kgs of carbon dioxide)
State Water Corporation - Parramatta offices, NSW	$6,000	60,000
State Water Corporation - Dubbo offices, NSW	$4,000	40,000
Dept. of Community Services – Wyong, NSW	$12,000	120,000
RE/Max Real Estate offices – Mooloolaba, Qld	$3,500	35,000
Built Holdings Pty Ltd (HQ) - Newstead Qld	$3,000	30,000
Wesley Community College - Melbourne Vic	$15,000	150,000
RE/Max Real Estate offices - Caloundra Qld	$2,000	20,000
Widden Horse Stud - Widden Valley NSW	$3,000	30,000
RE/Max Real Estate offices - Buderim Qld	$1,800	18,000
RE/Max Real Estate offices - Coolum Qld	$1,500	15,000
Average:	$5,180	51,800

What energy saving information will you get?

The extensive information that you will get in your Energy Audit Report will be conducted in accordance with the major requirements called for in national standards for Energy Audits - AS 3598 (Level 1 audit). Additionally, the report will be written in a format where you can implement most of the energy saving measures directly (DIY). You will get energy saving information from the following list of energy saving measures, as applicable to your site:

Electricity Meters & Electricity/Gas Bills

· Learn how to self-check the accuracy of your electricity meter.

· Self-check whether you are accidentally cross-wired to your neighbour and are therefore paying for their electricity?

· Are you with the cheapest possible electricity/gas supplier?

· Are you on the cheapest electricity/gas bill charge rates?

· How to use your “time-of-use” energy charge rates to slash your bills?

· Do your energy bill graphs follow energy-efficient patterns – or do they contain serious problems?

Electrical Power Factor

· Discover how to stop low power factor from grossly inflating your bills, and overloading your main electrical cables, and burning out your electrical switches. Therefore would power factor correction save you big money ?

Miscellaneous

· Are you paying big money for “ghost power”?

· Are you paying big money for “standby power”?

· Is invisible electrical leakage bumping your bills?

· How to check your building automation systems for energy efficiency.

· Are invisible hot joints costing you money on your main electrical circuits and are you in serious danger of electrical fires?

· Are your property cleaners costing you heaps (in energy)?

· Could a Combined Heat Power Plant (also known as Co-Generation Plant) save you an absolute fortune in process heating expenses?

· Are your boilers energy efficient?

· Are your furnaces energy efficient?

Lighting

· Exactly how much does it costs to switch fluorescent lights ON?

· How to quickly convert old fluorescent tubes to new, energy efficient tubes.

· How to retrofit your old fluorescent lights to turn them into modern, energy efficient lights.

· Are you using the very latest, energy saving low voltage light bulbs?

· Could new voltage controls save you money on fluorescent lighting costs?

· Do you have more lights than necessary?

· Could room lighting timers reduce your bills?

· Could room movement sensors reduce your bills for lights?

· Are you using the latest, energy efficient flood light bulbs?

· Could compact fluorescent lights save you money?

· How to rationalize your light switching patterns to reduce running costs.

· Could natural lighting facilities reduce your electricity bills?

· Could new, energy-efficient lights allow you to switch OFF internal, overnight security lights?

· Could a lighting maintenance program save you money on lighting costs?

Manufacturing processes

· Could combined-heat-power / co-generation technology produce your own electricity + save you a fortune in heating costs?

· Are your boiler/s or furnace/s energy efficient?

· Are your processing plants operating energy efficiently?

· How to optimize the energy efficiency of your air compressors.

Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC)

· Is your air conditioning (AC) tuned properly, or is it wasting $1,000’s per annum?

· Is room “air stratification” bumping your room heating costs?

· Could “heat recovery” enormously reduce your water heating costs?

· Convector heaters – Vs – Radiant heaters (strip heaters),
which cost less to run?

· How to check your hot water systems to slash your water heating costs.

· How to severely reduce your air conditioning costs for IT and Comms rooms.

· How to optimize your room air temperatures to reduce AC costs.

· How to contain your air conditioned areas to seriously reduce your cooling cost.

· How to maintain your AC to save on running costs.

· Are your AC’s located in energy-efficient locations?

· Thermal insulation for windows.

· Thermal insulation for ceilings/walls.

· Thermal insulation paint for roof tops.

· Are your cooling/heating ducts and pipes thermally insulated?

· Energy saving timers for heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment.

· Could hot air extraction reduce your cooling costs?

· Could time-of-use control save you money on your water heaters?

· Could evaporative cooling be an energy saving option?

· Could exhaust-sensing, car park ventilation controls save you money?

· Could an overnight warm air purge fan reduce your AC running costs?

· Out-of-season operation of Gas Room Heaters, Boilers & Furnaces.

· Energy efficient operation of boiling water systems.

· Could new. programmable controls reduce your AC costs/heater costs?

· Could power outlet, timer control reduce your costs for plug-in heaters & air conditioners?

· Could evaporative cooler/AC timers reduce your bills?

· How to minimise energy losses from your heated pool/spa.

· Could temperature reduction save you money on your hot water?

· Is your water heater properly insulated?

Free Energy Sources (renewable energy)

· Produce your own electricity from the sun (via solar PV cells).

· Produce your own water heating from the sun (solar water heating).

· Produce your own electricity from moving water (hydro electricity).

· Produce your own electricity from wind (wind energy).

Electrical Motors

· Could super high energy efficient electrical motors save you BIG money?

· Are your electrical motors operating at energy-efficient speeds?

Appliances

· Are your appliances energy efficient?

· Are your drink (e.g. Coke) refrigerators paying for their high electricity costs?

· Are you using your computers efficiently?

· Are you using your printers efficiently?

· Are you using your copiers efficiently?

· How to optimize the energy efficiency of your coolrooms, refrigerators and freezers.

Environmental Aspects

· All about Climate Change and Global Warming produced by greenhouse gases from energy use.

· How to employ nature to improve your site and to enhance your property and to save a lot of energy as well.

· What are your present greenhouse gas emissions?

· What is your present carbon footprint?

You will also get the following in your Report:

Environmental:

What your greenhouse gas emissions are due to your energy consumption, and what your carbon footprint is due to your energy use.

Energy Charts:

A bar chart of your last 2-years of electricity/gas bills showing your seasonal energy patterns and your short-term & long-term energy trends. These graphs are an ideal diagnostics tool on which we will highlight any situations for action. See example electricity graph which shows a severe electrical energy increase over a 2-year period. It indicates an air conditioning system control malfunction that cost $750 to fix and saved $20,000/annum thereafter.

Energy Bills, Click to view larger image

A pie chart showing what a typical, average site such as your’s uses for lights, air con, heaters, appliances and machinery etc. This will enable you to prioritise where you concentrate your energy saving efforts.

Energy usage for lights, air con, heaters, appliances and machinery etc.

QUOTE:
To request an obligation-free quotation, email or fax to us with the subject line: “Quotation request for an ONLINE energy audit” to Robert McMahon at email: savings@energyconservation.com.au or fax: 02 9660 3142.

To enable us to prepare your quote, we will need a very brief description of what you do on your business site. Please email or fax to us also a copy of your latest electricity bill & latest gas bill.

Once we have we quoted you, and you’re satisfied with our fee, we will direct you to our ONLINE Energy Audit Questionnaire to fill-out so that we may determine your site energy situations online. We will then prepare your ONLINE Energy Audit report from the information that you give us.

Contact Details

Or for an obligation-free chat about ONLINE Energy Audits, please contact:

Robert F. McMahon
(Business Owner - Energy Conservation)
(B. Eng. (UNSW), C. Eng., Fellow Inst. Marine. EST. Cert. Energy Management)

Level 20, 68 Pitt St
SYDNEY, New South Wales, 2000, Australia

Email: savings@energyconservation.com.au

Australia phone: 02 9660 8142

- or mobile: 0417 450 770

Australia fax: 02 9660 3142

International phone: +61 2 9660 8142

International fax: +61 2 9660 3142

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