Definition of the Green Energy Plan
The Green Energy Plan outlines strategies for improving the sustainability of a building and its related facilities. In the author’s vision of energy audit, the technical report is not the final document of the process, but the starting point to promote t
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Definition of the Green Energy Plan
The Green Energy Plan outlines strategies for improving the sustainability of a building and its related facilities. In the author’s vision of energy audit, the technical report is not the final document of the process, but the starting point to promote the implementation of the retrofit measures. For this reason, its structure must be complete, rigorous and balanced between technical and economic aspects but also aimed at communicating well the results to the client/owner. This chapter provides the reader with guidelines for organising and structuring the green energy plan in accordance with these goals.
8.1 General Criteria 8.1.1 Clarity in the Objectives The Green Energy Audit is realised with an operational plan, described in the technical report, that defines the strategies and the actions that result in measures for the limitation in the usage of resources. Whereas the on-site audit phase, with further processing, allows the auditor to define what it is technically possible to achieve, the Green Energy Plan explicitly states what should be done. In defining and then proposing to the client resource containment measures, the auditor should consider that the objective of the Green Energy Audit is to improve the sustainability of the building. Since some measures (energy retrofit) result in a cost-effectiveness while others do not, before developing the operational plan of action, or green energy plan, it is important that the auditor understands not only what the goals are, but also what are the expectations of the owner/client. In Table 8.1, there are some questions that the auditor may ask the owner and, depending on the possible responses, some interpretations.
G. Dall’O’, Green Energy Audit of Buildings, Green Energy and Technology, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5064-0_8, Springer-Verlag London 2013
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Definition of the Green Energy Plan
Table 8.1 Some questions that the auditor may ask the client and, depending on the possible responses, some interpretations [1] Possible questions Interpretations of responses Is reducing the cost of management the only goal of the audit?
If so, few opportunities remain to suggest other motives and one must understand what financial commitment the customer is ready to sustain and for how long. A negative response provides an opening to other possible reasons; it is for the auditor to define a broader framework Is the heightened value of A positive response can lead to prediction of the time of return on the building as a result investment, which may exceed the period of use of the building, of the retrofit work a since all that is not recovered from the improved performance factor to consider? can be recovered from the consequent increased value of the building when it is sold If the client is already The measures applied to improve opaque building envelope planning redevelopment performance are those that require larger investments and of the opaque building longer payback times envelope, is it for An affirmative answer to t
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