How should an MSME choose and hire an energy auditor?
Start from BEE's lists: certified auditors, accredited auditors for regulated work, or ADEETIE-empanelled auditors if you want the scheme. Ask for calibrated instruments, two or three past reports from your sector, and a scope that ends in costed projects, not a generic checklist.
Pick the right list
- ADEETIE: you need an empanelled auditor for the investment grade audit, and the cost can be reimbursed.
- Designated consumer duties: you need an accredited energy auditor.
- Everything else: a BEE certified energy auditor, ideally with audits in your sector.
Questions to ask
- Which instruments will you bring, and when were they calibrated by an NABL lab?
- Can you show a past report from my sector, with names removed?
- Will the report give savings in kWh and fuel per unit of output, with cost and payback for each measure?
- Will you come back to measure savings after we implement?
What to give the auditor
- Twelve months of electricity bills and fuel invoices.
- Monthly production in tonnes or pieces.
- Single line diagram and a list of major motors, compressors, furnaces and boilers.
What Senseible does here
Senseible turns your bills and fuel invoices into a monthly energy record per unit of output, which you can hand to the auditor on day one.
Sources: BEE, list of accredited energy auditors (updated 21 October 2026), BEE, procedures for accreditation of energy auditors (summary of the 2010 regulations), BEE, ADEETIE scheme booklet (clusters, technologies, process, FAQs)
Last reviewed 2026-10-23.