Audits and Assessments
Energy audits sit at the heart of our business.
It's what we're known for.
Tandem auditors are trusted by businesses, governments, councils, and organisations all across the country.
We have extensive experience in conducting all types of energy audits in a diverse range of industries.
We’re the company other consultancies hire to conduct their energy audits.
Why conduct an energy audit?
They're not as boring as they sound
Identify energy waste
Energy audits uncover areas where energy is being wasted, enabling you to implement targeted measures to eliminate inefficiencies.
Helps you to
- save money on power bills.
- Reduce your emissions.
- Inform investment decisions.
Benchmark for energy performance
Establishing a baseline for your site or equipment’s energy performance allows you to accurately measure your performance, now and into the future.
Helps you to
- Monitor performance over time.
- Benchmark to industry standards.
- Identify patterns in energy use.
- Determine the effectiveness of investments.
- Set targets and goals.
Equipment performance & longevity
Tandem’s trusted commercial energy audits identify inefficiencies such as over-or-under performance, letting you know if equipment is underpowered, overused, or on the way out.
Helps you to
- Save on operating, maintenance, and repair costs.
- Increase operational reliability.
- Improve energy efficiency.
Strategic planning
Accurate, relevant, and timely information helps organisations create informed, actionable plans for both short-term and long-term success.
Helps you to
- Set and work towards goals.
- Identify future energy needs.
- Support capital investment decisions.
- Support financial reporting and modelling.
- Enhance risk management practices.
- Support competitive advantage and positioning.
- Work towards a more sustainable business.
Types of Energy Audits
Types of Energy Audits
Type 1
Basic Energy Audit
A cost-effective scoping study to get an understanding of where you should start focussing your energy efficiency efforts.
Type 1 Audit provides a benchmark to help us determine how we can best work with you to achieve results.
About Type 1 Audits
- Cost-Effective: Requires less time and expense compared to more detailed audits.
- Quick results of actionable insights in a short timeframe.
- Foundation for Deeper Analysis: Identifies areas that may warrant further investigation through a Type 2 or Type 3 audit.
Benefits
- Provide a general understanding of energy use patterns.
- Give a quick assessment of your business energy performance.
- Identify low-cost or no-cost energy-saving opportunities.
- Determine whether a more detailed audit (Type 2 or Type 3) is needed.
Our process
- Meet and Plan to understand goals, concerns, and priorities.
- Review utility bills and documentation to understand energy consumption, costs, and trends.
- Site walk to observe energy-consuming systems and operational practices that impact energy use.
- Talk with key staff members.
- Report on findings, recommendations to a broad level of accuracy.
- We’d then love to work with you to implement these strategies.
What to expect
- A simple report on high-level qualitative assessments and recommendations.
- Identification of quick wins for energy efficiency.
- A general understanding of the business energy performance.
- Sufficient information for investment in low-to-medium cost opportunities.
- A foundation for deciding whether to proceed with more in-depth analysis (Type 2 or Type 3 audit).
Type 2
Detailed Energy Audit
A thorough examination of your business’ energy consumption.
This audit presents the clearest picture of your energy usage, efficiency, and investment opportunities.
About Type 2 Audits
- More comprehensive than a Type 1 audit, covering a wider range of energy-saving opportunities and providing highly detailed analysis.
- Highly tailored to your specific business needs.
- Highly valuable for informing business investment decisions.
Benefits
- Accurately benchmark and report on your energy consumption.
- Identify inefficiencies to determine priority cost-saving measures.
- Quantify potential savings to a medium level of accuracy.
- Provide key information for energy-related investment decisions.
- Form the foundations of an effective energy and sustainability strategy.
Our process
Initial planning and data collection Meet with you to determine your goals, concerns, and priorities, and to understand operational practices.
- Review historical energy consumption data through utility bills and other relevant paperwork.
- Gathering detailed data on energy consumption, equipment specifications, operating schedules, and building characteristics.
- Interview key staff members to gain detailed understanding of site operations.
Detailed site survey
- A thorough examination of your systems and equipment, including lighting, HVAC, building envelope, and process equipment.
- Optional detailed measurement with tools including data loggers, submeters, and infrared cameras.
Analyse, interpret, report and recommend
Our experience in delivering cost effective upgrades shines through in our analysis and recommendations. Because we specialise in both energy and sustainability, we’re able to look beyond the obvious and identify solutions outside of the box. We pride ourselves on simplifying the complex. Energy data can be dense and difficult to understand. Luckily, we’re great interpreters. We’re also great at ensuring our recommendations are practical and achievable, taking into consideration your operational and financial limitations. Our financial breakdowns help you determine estimated costs, savings, return, payback periods, and other financial metrics in implementing recommendations. We’ll walk you through our findings and recommendations so you’re empowered to take the next steps. Strategy Energy Audits show you where you are. Strategy helps you get to where you want to be. We’d love to help you get there. Check out our strategy services. Implementation Check out our Project Implementation services.
What to expect
- A detailed quantitative report on your business’ energy usage, costs, and efficiency.
- A simplified breakdown of our findings and recommendations.
- Detailed breakdown of energy efficiency opportunities, including projected energy savings and financial considerations.
- A presentation to discuss key findings and answer any questions you may have.
Type 3
Focused Sub-System
A comprehensive evaluation of a specific piece of equipment’s energy behaviour.
Zero in on where you want to look.
About Type 3 Audits
- Highly accurate, highly targeted.
- Identifies the health and efficiency of a piece of equipment.
Benefits
- Determine whether it’s best to repair or replace a piece of equipment.
- Justify large capital expenditure such as refrigeration upgrades.
- Evaluate the financial implications of investing in new equipment.
- Develop a business cases for financing applications.
- Benchmark performance data for periodic equipment reviews.
Our process
- Meet to determine your goals, concerns, and priorities.
- Installation of data loggers for monitoring of the equipment over a period of time relevant to the equipment’s usage.
Our data loggers record energy loads in real time. This is particularly useful when determining the correct size solar and battery systems for your site, justification in equipment upgrades, before-and-after comparisons, and identifying energy wastage.
What to expect
- A detailed quantitative report on sub-system’s energy usage and efficiency.
- A simplified breakdown of our findings and recommendations.
- A presentation to discuss key findings and answer any questions you may have.
Why Tandem Energy?
- We adhere to the Australian/New Zealand Standards 3598:2014 for Energy Audits
- We've been conducting energy audits for over 15 years.
- We've identified tens of millions of dollars in potential savings for our clients.
Our approach to audits and assessments
Thorough & Holistic
We take a deep look into your energy and sustainability data in order to help shape your operational decisions.
Our multi-disciplined team draw upon their engineering, sustainability, permaculture, psychology, and training skills to look past the obvious and find solutions that work in the real world.
Unintrusive
While we do need to ask you for data and other input, we recognise that your primary responsibility is to deliver your widgets on time. So we work around your schedule, and if we come on site we follow your WHS procedures and engage with your team only when reasonable to do so.
Simplifying the complex
We like to think of ourselves as translators.
We make sure we understand the data, the engineering and the opportunities, and share this in a way that’s relevant and easy for you to understand.
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