EU Energy Efficiency Directive Energy Audit Report Template

Open the report with enough scope detail that a reviewer can see what was audited, what was excluded, and why the coverage is representative. EED Annex VI expects audits to cover the energy consumption profile of buildings, groups of buildings, industrial operations or installations, including transportation, where those are part of the audited boundary.

Where the audit is carried out under an energy management system, environmental management system, or energy performance contract, state the system or contract link and show how the audit still covers the Annex VI criteria.

This is a working report structure, not an official EU form. Add the Member State's transposing provision, competent authority, auditor-qualification rule, filing route, and any national template before using it for a legal submission.

The report should not rely on unsupported estimates where measured data is available. Build a consumption section that connects each reported figure to its source system, meter, bill, sub-meter, load profile, operational log, or calculation file.

For electricity, include the load-profile evidence used to identify peaks, operating schedules, baseload, demand response potential, and mismatches between operating hours and consumption.

Convert the measured baseline into a ranked opportunity register. Each measure should show the affected energy use, the calculation method, the expected savings, implementation constraints, and the financial assumptions used to compare options.

Annex VI prefers life-cycle cost analysis where possible, rather than only simple payback. The report should therefore record long-term savings, residual value, discount-rate assumptions, maintenance impacts, and other material costs or benefits when those inputs are available.

The report should finish with recommendations that can be moved directly into the enterprise action plan required by Article 11. Do not leave recommendations as broad themes; each one needs an owner, implementation decision, evidence link, and management status.

For every technically or economically feasible recommendation, record whether it is accepted, deferred, rejected, or awaiting more evidence. Where the report will feed the enterprise annual report, keep trade-secret and confidentiality review separate from the technical recommendation itself.

Close the report with an evidence annex so future reviewers can reproduce the baseline, understand recommendation calculations, and track performance after implementation. Annex VI expressly expects audit data to be storable for historical analysis and performance tracking.

Use the annex as a controlled index, not as a dumping ground. Each evidence item should have an owner, source system, version date, confidentiality marking, and link to the relevant section or recommendation ID.