4. Why carry out an energy audit and with whom?

4.1 Motivations

There are two types of motivation for carrying out an energy audit: "voluntary" and "compulsory".

Voluntary motivations are specific to the company and relate to :

• financial concerns; seeking financial savings by reducing energy bills and their weighting in the cost price or sales, reducing expenses, increasing profit margins;

• problems related to staff comfort, characteristics of the product(s) and/or raw materials, operating conditions of the production line, conflict between comfort and production conditions ;

• investment and energy optimization projects;

• energy choice ;

• performance,...