Energy audit
At ORT Énergie, every energy audit rests on a rigorous, collaborative approach: data analysis, a real understanding of how your building runs, and hands-on field expertise.
An energy audit allows you to:
The result: a clear, structured view to steer your energy performance.
Our work typically includes:
This approach validates every opportunity, technically and financially.
An energy audit is the essential groundwork for:
It also opens the door to longer-term strategies that improve the energy performance of your buildings for good.
Energy audits themselves are eligible for financial incentives. And once the audit is complete, we can carry on with you into implementation, providing the engineering services the identified measures call for.
An energy audit rests on data, not on impressions.
It brings together billing history, available meter readings, the equipment inventory and the building's real operating schedules to reconstruct how it actually consumes energy. That is what separates an audit from a technical visit: the visit observes, the audit quantifies.
That quantification is what makes a recommendation defensible in front of a management team, a lender or a funding program: every proposed measure is tied to a measured consumption and to a costed saving.
The two exercises differ in depth and in purpose.
The assessment identifies what is at stake; the audit produces the action plan. Across a portfolio, one usually leads to the other: sort first, then audit where the potential is real.
An audit is only as good as its scope: a partial view produces partial conclusions.
Applicable rate structures and demand profiles are analyzed alongside them: the same annual consumption can cost very different amounts depending on how it falls across the day.
The report follows the logic of an investment decision.
That structure lets the same report go to a technical director and a finance director without being rewritten.
No two audits are alike. The effort depends mainly on:
Energy audits qualify for financial assistance programs. We confirm at the outset which ones apply to your situation, so that the scope of the audit matches their requirements.
There is no general obligation covering all buildings. Some funding programs and certifications do require a documented audit, however, and reporting obligations apply to certain large consumers. We confirm what applies in your case before setting the scope.
From a few weeks for a single building with data readily available, to considerably longer for a portfolio or for industrial processes. Data collection is almost always the longest stage: the more accessible your history, the faster the audit moves.
An audit examines an existing building in operation. Energy modelling simulates a building still to be designed or transformed. The two complement each other: audit data calibrates a model, and the model tests the measures the audit recommends.
Ahead of a major renovation or an equipment replacement, when costs rise without a clear explanation, when preparing a funding application, or as the starting point of a decarbonization plan.
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A well-run energy audit is the starting point of every profitable efficiency project. Tell us about your building: we will identify the measures that pay off fastest and the financial incentives you qualify for.
