Energy and carbon review brief
When to use: yearly, especially as energy costs move. How to use: give AI your building types and current bills — get a review brief pointing to the highest-value interventions.
When to use this prompt
Reach for this prompt when you need to when to use: yearly, especially as energy costs move. How to use: give AI your building types and current bills — get a review brief pointing to the highest-value interventions. It's designed for Facilities Manager, Sustainability Lead. Typically used within Facilities work.
Draft with AI, then have a colleague verify facts and tone before use.
How to use it
- 1
Gather your inputs
Have your local context, audience and goal to hand. - 2
Fill in the template
Copy the template below and replace every bracketed placeholder with real, local context. Keep names and safeguarding details out. - 3
Run it in your AI tool
Paste into your preferred AI assistant. Ask a follow-up if the output misses your association's tone or context. - 4
Review with the checklist
Work through the human-review checklist below before you send, publish or act on the output.
Prefer a guided flow? Adapt with the guided builder — it fills placeholders from your association profile.
Prompt template
Produce an energy and carbon review brief for our building portfolio. Buildings: {BUILDINGS}. Current annual energy spend: {SPEND}. Cover: quick wins (behavioural, no cost), low-cost interventions (<£5k), capital investments (>£5k), likely payback periods, grant funding archetypes to explore. Do NOT invent specific grant names. Flag which interventions likely need a specialist survey.Replace bracketed placeholders with real context. Never paste identifying details about children, health or safeguarding cases.
Worked example
Buildings: main centre 1950s, community hall 1990s\nSpend: £68k/year
What good output looks like
A tiered intervention brief with payback bands and specialist flags.
Why this prompt works
Focuses sustainability work on interventions with real payback and defensible reasoning.
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