Energy Efficiency Improvement for Commercial Building in Bangladesh Through Energy Audit

Abstract

Commercial Buildings are the large consumers of energy, which they use in many different ways. In this thesis we have successfully proved that there is a huge potential of energy savings in the commercial utilities by implementing some energy conservation measures on the largest energy consumption equipment’s such as Light and AC. Bangladesh is developing country, is advancing at a quick pace because of the expansion in industries and technologies. However, the country has been confronting a major energy crisis for a long while to meet the growing needs. Day by day, the gap between energy demand and supply is increase. One effecting way to minimize the gap between supply and demand energy audit is need to conduct in commercial sectors in regular basis. Energy audit helps to find the loss, wastage and give space for improvements in utilization. Main objective of our thesis is to improve energy utilization in commercial building for our country by finding energy loss, provide method and techniques through energy audit. The data entries are facilitated by user forms. They are calculated by MS excel sheet and the transferred to the data table. That’s help to generates different pie charts to point the highest energy consumed sector and their cost. This thesis also focuses on the energy saving opportunities and the potential to reduce energy consumption cost. This is done by replacing conventional lighting and other important equipment with more energy efficient appliances to increase the efficiency. The result of our study successfully demonstrated that, a substantial amount of energy and money can be conserved, if energy audit is practice and executed.