National Bakery Network Audit
A 44-facility EPRA-compliant audit programme turned into an investment-grade efficiency roadmap.
A national bakery operator engaged Kinawa Energy to design and deliver a structured Energy and Electrical Audit Programme across its full production network. The work was scoped to satisfy EPRA Energy Management Regulations and the Energy Act 2019, but the operator wanted more than a compliance certificate. They wanted a defensible, prioritised plan for capital deployment over the next three years.
Aging electrical infrastructure across 44 sites, and a regulatory deadline.
Industrial baking is electricity-intensive: ovens, mixers, proofers, refrigeration, packaging lines, and compressed-air systems run continuously across hundreds of kilometres of nationwide production network. Energy was the second-largest operating expense, climbing each tariff cycle, and no two sites had identical infrastructure.
The operator faced three pressures at once: rising consumption costs, EPRA's Energy Management Regulations requiring a compliant audit, and asset-management gaps where switchgear, earthing, and power-quality conditions had drifted across the network without a unified baseline. Walking into 44 sites without a structured methodology would have produced 44 inconsistent reports.
One methodology, replicated 44 times, with site-specific findings.
Kinawa designed a single audit methodology, formally scoped against EPRA's audit checklist and the Energy Act 2019, then repeated it consistently across every facility. Each visit followed the same sequence so that findings were comparable across the network and could be aggregated into a single board-level view.
- Consumption analysis. 12-month bill review, peak/off-peak split, demand-charge exposure, baseline kWh per tonne of output.
- Load profiling. On-site logging at the main panel and key feeders to expose phantom loads, oversized motors, and idle-state draw.
- Electrical safety inspections. Switchgear condition, earthing continuity, breaker coordination, and protection settings.
- Thermographic testing. IR scanning of distribution boards and motor terminations to surface hot-spot risks before failure.
- EPRA-aligned reporting. Every site report formatted for direct submission, plus a network-level executive roll-up.
From a compliance obligation to a three-year capital plan.
The audit programme produced 44 site-specific reports plus a consolidated network-level executive summary. Findings were ranked by payback period, safety risk, and compliance impact, giving the operator's leadership a defensible, prioritised investment roadmap rather than a stack of standalone reports.
"Kinawa turned what we expected to be a compliance exercise into the most useful piece of asset-management work we've done in five years."
