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energy-auditor skill

Q: What inputs does the skill require?

Energy consumption data, process flow documentation, equipment specifications, and utility cost rates.

Q: How are improvement opportunities prioritized?

Opportunities are ranked by estimated energy savings, simple payback, implementation complexity, and alignment with operational constraints.

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This skill analyzes energy use, benchmarks performance, and identifies efficiency opportunities to reduce costs and improve process sustainability.

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---
name: energy-auditor
description: Process energy audit skill for consumption analysis, benchmarking, and efficiency improvement identification
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Glob
  - Grep
  - Edit
  - Bash
metadata:
  specialization: chemical-engineering
  domain: science
  category: Sustainability
  skill-id: CE-SK-026
---

# Energy Auditor Skill

## Purpose

The Energy Auditor Skill performs process energy audits to analyze consumption patterns, benchmark performance, and identify energy efficiency improvement opportunities.

## Capabilities

- Energy consumption mapping
- Energy balance analysis
- Utility system analysis
- Benchmarking against best practice
- Heat integration opportunities
- Equipment efficiency assessment
- Steam system optimization
- Compressed air system analysis
- Improvement prioritization

## Usage Guidelines

### When to Use
- Conducting energy audits
- Identifying efficiency opportunities
- Benchmarking energy performance
- Prioritizing improvements

### Prerequisites
- Energy data available
- Process flows documented
- Equipment specifications known
- Utility costs defined

### Best Practices
- Use consistent boundaries
- Normalize for production
- Verify data quality
- Prioritize by payback

## Process Integration

This skill integrates with:
- Energy Efficiency Optimization
- Heat Integration Analysis
- Process Sustainability Assessment

## Configuration

```yaml
energy-auditor:
  audit-levels:
    - walk-through
    - standard
    - detailed
  systems:
    - steam
    - electricity
    - fuel
    - compressed-air
    - cooling-water
```

## Output Artifacts

- Energy audit reports
- Sankey diagrams
- Benchmark comparisons
- Improvement recommendations
- Payback analyses

Overview

This skill performs process energy audits to map consumption, benchmark performance, and surface efficiency improvements. It produces actionable outputs such as energy balance analyses, Sankey diagrams, and prioritized improvement recommendations. The skill supports multiple audit depths from walk-through to detailed studies and targets steam, electricity, fuel, compressed air, and cooling systems.

How this skill works

The skill ingests energy data, process flow information, and equipment specs to build an energy consumption map and balance. It runs system-specific analyses (steam, compressed air, heat, electrical) and compares results to best-practice benchmarks. Outputs include visualizations, payback calculations, and ranked opportunity lists to guide implementation.

When to use it

When conducting formal energy audits at walk-through, standard, or detailed levels
To identify and prioritize efficiency opportunities across utility systems
For benchmarking plant or process energy performance against best practice
When preparing payback and investment cases for ENERGY improvements
To evaluate heat integration or steam system optimization opportunities

Best practices

Define consistent audit boundaries and normalize for production or operating hours
Ensure source data quality and reconcile utility meters with process flows
Collect equipment nameplate and operational specs before detailed analysis
Prioritize opportunities by simple payback, energy savings, and implementation risk
Integrate results with broader sustainability or heat-integration studies

Example use cases

Run a facility-level audit to generate Sankey diagrams and an energy balance for management
Analyze compressed air and steam systems to find low-cost efficiency fixes with <2-year payback
Benchmark multiple plants to identify low performers for targeted retrofits
Evaluate heat recovery and integration options to reduce fuel consumption
Produce an improvement roadmap with costs, savings, and implementation priority

FAQ

What inputs does the skill require?

Energy consumption data, process flow documentation, equipment specifications, and utility cost rates.

How are improvement opportunities prioritized?

Opportunities are ranked by estimated energy savings, simple payback, implementation complexity, and alignment with operational constraints.