Commercial Energy Audit
Boost profits by driving down energy costs. Blue Ocean collects and analyzes energy data to identify and implement cost-effective measures to achieve significant energy cost reductions.
Energy Audit Services for Buildings
Why audit energy? You can’t manage what you don’t measure holds true for energy efficiency.
An energy audit is the benchmark by which all future energy efficiency improvements must be measured against. In order to calculate savings, return on capital expenditure, and payback times, the energy profile of a facility must be generated as a benchmark.
Far too often, an energy audit is used by product manufacturers as a poorly disguised attempt to sell their products. Blue Ocean does not manufacture or sell equipment. The sole purpose of our commercial energy audit service is to improve our clients’ energy efficiency, thereby reducing energy costs. We always tell our clients “Don’t buy expensive capital equipment without first doing an independent energy audit!” Why? Because current equipment should be assessed at or near design parameters before any replacement decision is made. For this reason, we recommend that you do not let your equipment manufacturer or equipment service provider conduct your energy audit. Blue Ocean is 100% committed to representing our clients’ interests, not selling capital equipment.
Blue Ocean Energy Management is a team of commercial energy consultants that uses state-of-the-art technologies to monitor critical electrical loads. We use web-enabled load monitors that collect data for energy consumption (kWh), Peak Demand (kW) as well as Power Factor. A comprehensive energy audit provides the basic understanding of how a building uses energy and provides solutions/strategies for ways to use energy more efficiently.
The energy audit becomes the cornerstone for the development of the Energy Management Strategy, where Blue Ocean will deliver a client-specific set of prioritized recommendations and an action plan to implement these changes. All Blue Ocean’s audit findings and recommendations are presented in an Energy Audit Report, designed as a roadmap for the building owner/manager to achieve future energy savings.
While our clients can customize the energy audit to meet their specific needs, we have developed three standard levels of energy audits:
Comprehensive Energy Audit
- Facility inspection
- Historical consumption and cost analysis
- Electricity “Demand” (kW) analysis
- Electricity “Power Factor” (PF) and Load Factor analysis
- Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission calculation
- Climate normalization of energy consumption
- Energy cost development and forecasting
- Tenant sub-meter invoicing audit
- EPA (ENERGY STAR®) Rating analysis
- Real-time monitoring of major electrical loads for 3-9 months
- Load profiles to analyze overall electrical usage
- Load shifting analysis (reduce peak demand)
- HVAC performance analysis
- Operational efficiency analysis
- Weekly load analysis
- Work with site staff to improve efficiency
- Assist with the implementation of any cost savings strategies identified
- Monthly cost monitoring to determine actual savings
Walk-through Energy Audit
- Facility inspection
- Historical consumption and cost analysis
- Electricity “Demand” (kW) analysis
- Electricity “Power Factor” (PF) and Load Factor analysis
- Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission calculation
- Climate normalization of energy consumption
- Energy cost development and forecasting
- Tenant sub-meter invoicing audit
- EPA (ENERGY STAR®) Rating analysis
- Work with site staff to improve efficiency
- Assist with the implementation of any cost savings strategies identified
- Monthly cost monitoring to determine actual savings
Basic Energy Audit
- Historical energy and water consumption analysis
- Electricity “Demand” (kW) analysis
- Natural gas and electricity conversion to British Thermal Units (Btu) facilitating cost comparison
- Greenhouse gas emission calculation
- Normalized energy consumption
- ENERGY STAR® Rating analysis
- Energy cost development
Blue Ocean offers energy audit services to multiple clients, including:
Commercial Office Buildings, Retail Shopping Centers, Medical Centers, Automobile Dealerships, Churches, Country Clubs, Restaurants, Hotels, Schools, Light Industrial and others.