Energy Audit and Energy Conservation for a Hostel of an Engineering Institute

The adequate and right kind of energy is necessary for the sustainable development of human society. Due to ever increasing rise in demand we need to take necessary steps to bridge the gap between supply and demand. The paper focuses on the process of energy audit carried out in an academic institution in order to suggest various conservative measures to make energy consumption more economical. Therefore, Energy Audit in hostel and mess of Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, Janakpuri, New Delhi has been conducted. Thus in this paper, efforts have been carried out to augment energy use awareness and encourage energy conservation practices by a thorough analysis of the consumption and wastage of energy through the appliances. The detailed study carried out by us in this paper helped to bring out suggestive measures for cost mitigation, reduction of environmental pollution and monitoring demand supply gap.