This is a detailed study of the facility, once the profile has been established, to identify where energy efficiency initiatives could be implemented to reduce overall energy consumption or Greenhouse Gas Emissions. This opportunity review would aim at reducing energy consumption to reduce costs or to reduce GHG Emissions to improve the NABERS Rating.
We believe it makes sense to break this process down into 2 distinct steps to reduce and control the costs:
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Stage 1 - Engineering Verification identifies the individual initiatives and the potential energy/cost saving. This is completed at a conceptual level and allows the building owner to identify how far they want to go before they incur additional costs for engineering design and specification.
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Stage 2 - Is to take the individual initiatives that you have decided to implement and undertake a full engineering design and specification. This would also include a fixed price quote for AE Smith to undertake these works and the cost of this Stage 2 would form part of those costs. Stage 2 would also produce a set of documents that could be used for a competitive tender.
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Under the proposed Mandatory Disclosure Legislation being introduced in mid 2010 commercial office buildings > 2000 sq m that are being leased or sold will need to disclose their energy efficiency as measured by the NABERS Rating scheme as well as issue and Energy Efficiency Assessment Report detailing all the energy efficiency opportunities that could be implemented in the building. While we haven’t seen the details of the legislation it is our intention that an Energy Opportunity Review would, at the very least, comply with the legislative requirements.
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Case Study 1 - Energy Opportunity Review
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We were commissioned to undertake an energy opportunity review for a commercial building in Melbourne to support an application for funding under the Federal Government’s Green Building Fund. As a result of the review we identified a number of initiatives that would see a projected reduction of 340 tonnes of C02-e of greenhouse gas emissions with the NABERS Energy Star Rating for the building improving to 4.0
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Case Study 2 - Energy Opportunity Review
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We were asked to review the mechanical systems for an industrial facility in Brisbane whose overseas parent were implementing an internal charge for C02-e emissions. Prior to the review the facility was emitting an estimated 17,000 tonnes of C02-e from the consumption of electricity and gas at the site. The Energy Opportunity review identified initiatives that would reduce the C02-e emissions by approximately 12,000 tonnes.
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