Commissioning, Managing and Reviewing an Energy Audit Course

Welcome to the course! You’ll learn how to get the most out of an energy audit of your facility, and reduce the risk that the audit becomes nothing more than clutter on a computer hard drive, with it contributing nothing to you cutting energy usage, energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Also, if you are undertaking this course as an energy auditor, it is the first course in the series of courses for that lead to certification an an Investment Grade Energy Auditor.

Course overview

There are 4 main sections:

1. Planning for the audit. This is where you get your organization ready to invest in energy efficiency, learn more about what is involved, define the outcome you are looking for and assess if an audit is appropriate for your organization and if not, the alternatives available to you. By following the guidance in this section you’ll greatly increase the value you get from the audit. Failing to plan is planning to fail!
2. Preparing for the audit. In this lesson you’ll learn how to scope the audit, about what you should do to manage audit risk – before the audit – forewarned is forearmed. You’ll also learn how to assess proposals, and get a rough idea of audit costs.
3. Undertaking the audit. This is where you’ll learn how to manage and work with the energy auditor, and how to assess the recommendations put forward and select which ones to implement.
4. After the audit. This section provides guidance on the three steps involved in implementing the audit’s recommendations and reviewing achievements, after the energy savings measures have been implemented.

Certification

Each section of the course has a short quiz after it. You don’t need to complete the quiz to progress to the next lesson, but if you do, and pass all the quizzes, you’ll get a certificate of achievement on course completion, and be issued with a digital badge that you can put on your Linkedin profile or elsewhere.

Before you start the first lesson read this to get the most from the course

Before you start spend a few moments jotting down exactly what you want to learn, and focus on that. Don’t feel you need to complete each lesson.

However, if you wish to track your progress through to full course completion, whenever you finish watching a video, you should mark the lesson complete.

In some lessons you may be asked to write your thoughts in the comment box below the lesson. Please do this to get the most from the lesson, and you might see some interesting comments from other students too. 

If this is your first course on Sustemy, or you haven’t taken a course for a while, please watch the video below which covers:

• Progressing through the course. You don’t have to do each lesson one by one, and its OK if you skip lessons. However, if you want to get a certificate of competency, you need to pass all the quizzes and assessments.
• Mark complete each lesson as you finish it, in order to update the progress bar.
• Use of the video controls, to adjust the playback speed and to view subtitles (if available).
• Viewing your certificate on completion.
• Engaging with your instructor and other students.

If there is something you are unsure about, or if you have a question, please put your request in the comment box.

Learn from a case study

This case study provides insights into how an organization can benefit from an energy audit. I suggest you review it now, before you start going through the lessons, and again after going through the course.

After completing this course

This case study provides insights into how an organization can benefit from an energy audit. I suggest you review it now, before you start going through the lessons, and again after going through the course.

After completing this course you’ll have the knowledge to take the risk out commissioning an energy audit. 

You’ll get better quality advice, and will know how to get the most value from an energy auditor or energy efficiency advisor. 

And if you want third party quality assurance of an energy audit undertaken of your commercial or industrial facility (or even of your own work, if you are an energy auditor), I would love help you through an Energy Auditor Review Service.

Contact your instructor

Contact Bruce Rowse.