EU Energy Efficiency Directive What should an EED energy audit report include?

The report should show enough evidence for a reviewer to understand the audited boundary, the energy baseline, the significant uses of energy, the proposed efficiency measures, and the savings logic behind each recommendation. Annex VI requires audits to use up-to-date, measured, traceable operational data on energy consumption and, for electricity, load profiles.

The report should also cover the consumption profile of buildings or groups of buildings, industrial operations or installations, and transportation where those are relevant to the enterprise. That scope matters because Annex VI requires the audit to be proportionate and sufficiently representative to give a reliable picture of overall energy performance and the most significant improvement opportunities.

EED Annex VI is the legal minimum-criteria anchor. Article 11 says Member States must establish transparent and non-discriminatory minimum criteria in accordance with Annex VI and taking relevant European or international standards into consideration.

EN 16247-1:2022 is relevant because it specifies requirements, a common methodology, and deliverables for energy audits. It should be treated as a standards framework that can help structure the audit process and report deliverables, while the EED Annex VI criteria remain the key legal checks for the public-facing FAQ answer.

The evidence file should let the enterprise, auditor, competent authority, or later reviewer reproduce the main conclusions without relying on memory. Annex VI expressly requires audit data to be storable for historical analysis and performance tracking.

A useful report therefore separates raw inputs, calculation workpapers, site observations, recommendation logic, and management follow-up. That structure also supports Article 11 action plans, because each recommendation needs a decision on technical or economic feasibility and an implementation measure where feasible.

For enterprises subject to Article 11(2), the audit report should be written so the recommendations can be converted into a concrete and feasible action plan. Article 11 says the action plan is based on the audit recommendations, identifies measures to implement each recommendation where technically or economically feasible, and is submitted to enterprise management.

The report should not stop at a list of possible projects. Each recommendation should include enough technical, savings, cost, and feasibility information for management to decide whether to implement it, defer it, or explain why it is not technically or economically feasible. Article 11 also requires publication of the action plans and recommendation implementation rate in the enterprise annual report, subject to trade-secret and confidentiality protections.