Energy Audit:

2. Introduction:
Home energy audit is assessment of home energy. This is a first step that helps to check
how much energy any house consumes and after evaluation required solution can be find to
make the house more energy efficient. (Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins, 2011) .It includes
evaluating the actual utilization of electrical energy and solutions of conservation of energy.
Energy Audit helps to know about the areas where energy is wasted a lot and where
improvements can be done to save energy. (Jijo Balakrishnan1,AryaKrishnana. P2,, Joice
Joy3,Nibin K.N, Reshma Chandran5, 2016). A successful auditing job should make known to
the proprietor or administration team of the structure related to the options present for less
energy waste, involvement of the prices, and the advantages achievable from relating those
energy-management opportunities. (edwards, 2006)

2.1 Background:
To make the report of energy audit, an apartment in 925 Boundary Road COOPERS PLAINS
QLD 4108 was investigated. This house is approximately more than 20 years old. This
apartment consists of three bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen, a living room, dining room,
a laundry and a garage. The number of residents in this house is two. The average electricity
bill of the apartment for last year is $550 for period of 90 days. According to the number of
people who are living in the property the usage of electricity and amount of power bills is so
high.
The main purpose of this report is to examine the maximum energy usage of the house. It is
important to reduce the usage of electricity and amount of electricity bills to save money and
electricity. So, after all the examinations it is important to find the measures for energy
reduction.

2.2 Scope:
This report includes the examination of maximum energy consumption of apartment located
in Cooper Plains. With the help of Lux meter and power meter the entire appliances and
lighting in the house was examined and data was collected. Hence, because of the issues of
access to the power points, some of assumptions were made in case of cooking stove, oven,
hot water system, air conditioner and automatic garage door. Some of the main objectives of
the report are mentioned below:
Calculation of energy consumption and electricity billing of various appliances and
lightning of house.
To figure out additional use of energy with the help of comparative analysis and to
draw energy use patterns.
To find out energy measurement opportunity and also provide some
recommendations.
Overall energy ad const saving and ensuring less GHG emission.

2.3 Methodology:
Energy audit is an assessment of current energy-use practices in a proper manner. It
measures how energy is handled and consumed (Energy Savings Toolbox An energy audit
tool and manual) Two tools Power meter and Lux meter were used to take all the reading for
the audit.
For the measurement of the efficiency of the lighting lux meter was used, that helps to
measure the intensity of the illumination. Light measurement and analysis is a crucial step
towards ensuring efficiency and safety. Power specification for lightning was normally
collaborated from the manufacturer specification. Power meter was used to determine the
power usage and power factor of all appliances. For some appliance it was hard to access
the power points, so power usage and power factor of such appliances was taken from
manufacturer specification and from the website of the manufacturer. Such appliances are
air conditioner, Oven, cooking stove and water heater. To ensure the accurate power
consumption, stand by usage of the devices was also considered. Electricity bills of last year
were also used to get the usage trend and costing and were compared with the audit
measurement to identify the difference. The use of total energy is divided into two various
seasons that are summer and winter, so it could be easy to measure the proper of usage of
cooling devices that are not being used in winter. Energy audit steps were followed as
instructed in the energy efficiency lecture notes with some adjustments where needed.

2.4 Sources of Information and assumptions:

2.5 Site Issues:

3. The site:
The report of the energy audit is done for a three bedroom house situated in Cooper Plains
that is approximately 20 years old but it has been refurnished recently with some new
appliances. This house consists of three large size bedrooms; each bedroom has at least
two power point, one bathroom, a living room, laundry, a study and a garage. The number of
people living in this apartment is two and both are adults.

3.1 General description of the main appliances:

There are number of electrical appliances in the house and that are further divided into two
categories. First are the high consuming devices like Air conditioning system, Vacuum, iron
and washing machines. The other is low power consumer devices such as phone charger,
laptop, hair straighter, fans, and lights etcetera.
Al l devices have their own operational time like refrigerator it operates 24/7 in the house and
iron that is rarely used but consumed a huge amount of electricity even in the standing
mode. Some of the high operational time devices are freezers, router, lights, fans, and
television. A few of the devices are low operational time are washing machine, hair dryer,
vacuum and sandwich maker. In everyday life most of the appliances that are used in the
house are appliance of kitchen that consume most of the energy like refrigerator, microwave,
oven, dishwasher, sandwich maker, food processor and hand grinder. During weekdays
normally in the morning most of the appliances are switched off because no one stays at
home in the mornings, except some stand by appliances. Moreover, these stands by
appliances also need to be considered, whose power consumption cannot be ignored.
Whereas, there are some lights and appliances that continuously run in evening everyday
like lights of lobby and appliances such as Televisions and setup box, fan and sound bar.
There is also some stand by devices which draws a small amount of power. Some examples
of stand by devices are automatic door garage, TV, laptops, printer, setup box etcetera.

3.2 Heating and cooling:

On average most of the energy, approximately 40 percent of the energy used at home is for
heating and cooling. The amount of energy is depending on the circumstances and climate.
(Your energy saving, 2016)
This site has major cooling appliance that is air conditioner. There are two air conditioners in
this house; one is in lobby that is..... and other is in the main bed room. Both the airconditioned normally used in the season on summer; especially in the afternoons that is the
hottest part of the day in the summer season. Sometime in the winter days, during the
afternoon air conditioner runs in the house. The air conditioner of the main bedroom runs
almost every night of the summer season. This house has reverse cycle air conditioners, as
it helps to increase the efficiency by 5 % to 15%. (Your energy saving,
2016) ........................................................................................................................................
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3.3 Hot water

3.4 Ligtning

Please try karna Light describe karte sameh mere ghar

ka describe karna aur har ek room ka apne se bana ke
likh dena.........Thanks

3.5 Personal computers:

4. Energy Consumption:
4.1 The energy consumption of the house as well as the associated costs, based
on the electricity bills could be summarised below in the table:
Period

Average
consumption
per
day(KWh)

Total
Quarterly
consumption
(KWh)

Quarterly
Cost(KWh
price service
fee inc GST)
$

Estimated
greenhouse
gas
emissions
(tonnes)

16 Apri201523 Jun 2015(3

months)

14.45

1066

286.73

1.04

24 Jun 201523 sep 2015

23.60

2263

584.66

2.27

24 sep 201530 Dec 2015

18.81

1941

543.80

1.93

31 Dec 2015-

12.03

1472

441.09

1.42

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Works Cited
Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins. (2011). Energy audit. In J. Harrington, Green
Energy (pp. 124-126). SAGE Publications, Inc. .
edwards, P. (2006). Level one energy audit for unclosed site. Energy focus .
Energy Savings Toolbox An energy audit tool and manual. Canada: CIEPC.
Jijo Balakrishnan1,AryaKrishnana. P2,, Joice Joy3,Nibin K.N, Reshma Chandran5.
(2016). Energy Auditing: A Case Study. International Journal of Advanced
Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering , 2278
8875.

Your energy saving. (2016). Retrieved april 30, 2016, from Australian
Government, department of industry, innovation and science:
http://yourenergysavings.gov.au/energy/heating-cooling/understand-heatingcooling