How Industrial Energy Audits Reduce Cost & Build Practical Decarbonisation Plans
How to turn site energy data into cost-saving actions, fundable projects, and a decarbonisation roadmap that works in the real plant.
How do you reduce energy cost today using an industrial energy audit while building a decarbonisation roadmap that actually gets delivered?
Built for industrial teams who already have energy data, audit findings or decarbonisation targets but still need a clear answer to what is driving cost and what to do first, this session shows how a proper energy audit works as a decision tool, not another report: a reliable baseline, the significant energy users, the real opportunities separated from noise, and a fundable route to engineering design, projects and measurable savings, drawn from EM3's two decades inside complex sites for major global manufacturers.
Relevant if you work in
- Food and beverage, pharmaceutical, life sciences, chemical, process, data centre or high-energy manufacturing environments.
- Sites with high utility spend, ageing infrastructure, limited metering visibility or pressure to reduce operating cost.
- Multi-site organisations trying to turn energy efficiency and decarbonisation targets into practical site-level actions.
You should attend if you are
- Responsible for reducing energy cost, improving utility performance or supporting carbon reduction on a live industrial site.
- Working with audit findings, energy-saving ideas or decarbonisation targets, but unsure what should happen first.
- Trying to secure approval for energy projects and need a clearer link between savings, risk, payback and plant priorities.
- Concerned that decarbonisation will become expensive, fragmented or disconnected from operational reality.
What you'll learn
What a proper industrial energy audit is,
why it matters, and how it is done on a live industrial site.
Why a useful audit is not just a report,
but a decision tool that shows what is driving cost and what should happen first.
How to build a clearer baseline,
identify significant energy users, and separate the opportunities that matter from the noise.
Why sequencing matters:
reducing demand, improving metering and controls, and validating assumptions before jumping into technology or capital projects.
What comes after the audit,
from further investigation and engineering design to grants, rebates, business case approval and a practical decarbonisation roadmap.
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Who's on the call
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James Dooley is a Technical Sales Manager at EM3, bringing together engineering depth and commercial judgement to help industrial clients reduce energy cost and move projects from early ideas into delivery. His background is in mechanical engineering, with hands-on experience across steam, boilers, heat recovery, utilities optimisation and project delivery for pharma, biopharma and industrial manufacturing sites.
Shane Marren leads EM3's energy audit and compliance work, with deep experience in industrial energy audits, ISO 50001 energy management systems, measurement and verification, and carbon reduction strategies. He has worked across biopharma, medical device, dairy and food manufacturing sites, helping teams understand where energy is being used, where savings are hiding, and what needs to happen next.
Alysia DeSimone is an Energy Engineer based in Chicago, with a background in chemical and environmental engineering and experience across commercial and industrial energy efficiency programmes. She works with industrial clients to identify energy optimisation opportunities, support technical analysis and help turn site data into practical engineering actions.
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