13.4 Energy Auditing for Identifying Climate Smart Agricultural
Technologies
Identifying environmentally efficient technology by auditing the energy consumed
and energy output from the technology and selection of climate and environment
smart technology from different options will help us to reach our climate change
mitigation goal.
13.4.1 Energy Auditing
Energy auditing is defined as understanding of “how energy is used within the
system or process, and where it is wasted”. It helps to find the alternatives, in
order to reduce the energy losses and to increase the energy efficiency for overall
better performance. By reviewing the energy load patterns and measuring process,
energy demands could be identified along with suitable energy efficiency measures.
Thus, energy auditing is helpful for economic and environmental betterment,
becoming a very important tool in the energy sector. It is well known that the
technology that uses more renewable and non-commercial energy (organic
Fig. 13.6 Energy consumption within different steps of the value chain. Source: Energypedia
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