New guide to help business slash energy costs

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The Energy Efficiency Council (EEC) has launched a new guide that will help Australia’s manufacturers and commercial building owners take control of their energy costs.

The new Quick Reference Guide to Energy Auditing gives businesses the information they need to work with energy efficiency experts to find ways of slashing their gas and electricity bills.

The EEC’s CEO, Luke Menzel, said the launch of the Guide is timely. “Businesses are grappling with massive energy price hikes, reliability issues, and huge volatility in gas and electricity markets.”

“These price shocks pose an existential threat to energy intensive industries, and the market needs to be fixed. But in the meantime, taking advantage of cost effective energy productivity opportunities can give energy users some breathing space.”

The Guide, launched at the Energy Users Association of Australia National Conference in Brisbane this week, was developed in partnership with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. It is the first guide to step energy users though Australia’s new energy audit standard, released by Standards Australia in 2014.

Mr. Menzel said energy users had welcomed the Guide.

“Businesses understand that getting more out of every unit of energy behind the meter is a way of reducing their exposure to the craziness playing out on the other side.”

“The Quick Reference Guide to Energy Auditing will help them get the information they need to assess and invest in measures that quickly cut energy costs, and mitigate the risk of future price rises,” concluded Luke Menzel.

Click here to download the Quick Reference Guide to Energy Auditing.

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