What are Energy and Materials Audits?
Energy and Materials Audits help you to understand your inputs, reduce your waste, and boost your efficiency.
For production facilities, maximising your efficiencies is key to maximising throughput and profit. Energy and Material Audits help you take a close look at your processes to see exactly what’s going in, what’s coming out, and where it's all going. It’s all about finding the hidden opportunities to save energy, cut waste, and improve performance.
Energy audits are based on the law of conservation of energy. Energy can't be created or destroyed - that means we can track it. An energy audit looks at all the energy coming into your facility, like electricity, gas or fuel, and shows where it’s being used. By understanding this flow, we can highlight where energy is being lost or used inefficiently. That could mean wasted heat, running machinery at low efficiency, or spotting where equipment isn't working at its optimum level.
Likewise, the principle of the conservation of mass allows us to track everything coming into your facility, such as materials, chemicals, packaging, etc. and compare it to what comes out. We look at what becomes part of your product, what gets recycled, and what ends up as waste. This helps pinpoint where materials are being lost or used inefficiently and identifies opportunities to reduce, reuse or recycle waste.
Why do you need an Energy or Materials Audit?
Understanding your energy and material usage is the first step to running a smarter, leaner business. These audits will allow you to
✅ Spot inefficiencies and develop actions to maximise use of your energy and materials.
✅ Improve environmental performance
✅ Support compliance activities for ISO 14001, Carbon Footprint evaluation or ESG reporting, the data from your balances will be invaluable.
✅ Track progress on sustainability goals
✅ Make informed decisions about where to invest in improvements.
How can ApplaudBC help?
At ApplaudBC, we’re with you every step of the way through your energy and material audits. We’ll help you spot where energy is used and where materials go, guide your data collection, carry out the audit, and create action plans to boost efficiency.
Looking to go further? We can build your audit findings into your Carbon Report, ESG report, and carbon reduction plan.
Here's how we help
1. Review
Review of your facilities to find all energy and materials inputs, uses and outputs.
2. Data gathering
Identify key data needed to carry out the audit and guide you on how to collate data for audit.
3. Analyse Data
Analyse your energy and materials usage to give a full breakdown of usage and identify good and bad practices.
4. Delivery and Actions
Deliver audit results and develop targeted action plans to address any inefficiencies or drive improvements.
Whether you're just starting out or looking to improve what you already do, we’ll help you take the next steps towards a greener, more sustainable business. Need help getting it right? Get in touch.