Energy audit of the residential building

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Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Abstract: One of the ways to reduce the energy consumption from conventional sources is the introduction of an energy audit, which aims to inform the owner / user of a building about its energy consumption and possible ways of its reduction. For this purpose, the coefficients EK (annual demand for final energy) and EP (the amount of non-renewable primary energy to satisfy the energy needs of the building) were introduced. Their maximum values are determined in accordance with the regulations of the Minister of Infrastructure for each type of building covered by the energy audit obligation. Audit is an expertise designed to gain knowledge about energy consumption in a given building, a set of buildings, a system or an installation. It is to provide information on how to save an energy and their results. The following article presents the purpose and methodology of performing the energy audit for residential buildings.