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Includes Everything You Need:
√ Downloadable Training Materials
√ NEASI Certification Test
√ Audit Resources
√ Marketing Training
√ Business Start Up Tools
√ Online Video Training
√ Online Window Film Training
Brief Course Overview
The Pro Package specifically designed to get you started making money saving energy. The Pro package has everything included in the Get Started! Package PLUS 2 Key additions. First, you get our exclusive online learning videos. Video learning gives you a HUGE advantage. Second, the Pro package gives you our exclusive Window Film learning module. You will learn from an industry expert on excactly how window film works and why it is an often misunderstood part of energy efficiency.
Module 1: Introduction - Basics of Energy
You’ll Learn:
1) Where energy comes from
2) How it gets to the business
3) AC vs DC power
4) What is a Watt.
Reducing watts by a few percentages can result in significant dollar savings for your clients
Module 2: Building Envelope
You’ll Learn:
1) How to understand heat transfer
2) How energy bills can tell you how to tight your building envelope is
3) All about insulation - the different types, uses and the R-Value.
Aluminum transfers heat at over 900 times the rate of wood. Reducing the thermal bridge in a building can save owners hundreds of dollars in heating and cooling costs
Module 3: Lighting
You’ll Learn:
1) The different types of lighting (CFLs, LEDs, tube fluorescents, HID, and more)
2) How to quantify exactly how much it costs to run a lamp
3) How to signicantly lower energy bills.
Lighting can account for almost 60% of energy use of some facilities. With simple lighting changes you can potentially save business owners 10% or more a year!
Module 4: Energy Bills
You’ll Learn:
1) How to read electricand gas bills
2) Why Demand Charges add large costs to the energy bill - and how to eliminate them
3) Various electric rate schedules that can save money
4) How to read a meter.
Reducing Demand Charges on a small facility can save them almost $150 a month, or $1,800 a year!
Module 5: Heating and Cooling
You’ll Learn:
1) Fundamentals of heat
2) Different types of heat
3) Different types of cool
4) How to determine the conditioning units.
Increasing the SEER rating of an air conditioning system from 8 to 14 can reduce the operating cost from about $130 per ton of cooling, to about $74 per ton. For a savings of $56 per ton
Module 6: Machines and Motors
You’ll Learn:
1) How to calculate Watts, Volts, Amps
2) How to distinguish between nameplate and actual rating
3) Why effeciency ratings can save your client thousands of dollars a year.
4) Variable speed drives and why they are critical to energy efficiency.
Changing a motor from 24 hp to 15 hp can result in savings of over $3,400 a year.
Module 7: Economics of Energy
You’ll Learn:
1) Saving energy does not always mean saving money
2) Simple payback method, Life-Cycle costs, Time Value of Money, compound interest, uniform
series cash flow
3) How to calculate the Return on Investment and determine Future Value of a project.
Motor A may cost $200 less than Motor B but when you do a Life-Cycle cost, Motor A actually costs $1,500 more than Motor B - a savings you can see!
Module 8: Basics of Contracts
You’ll Learn:
1) What makes a contract a Contract
2) The Basics of reading/writing a contract
3) What constitutes a Breach and how it is determined.
You actually enter into contracts every day, learn what they are and how you can understand them.
Module 9: Making Money
You’ll Learn:
1) How to make money doing energy audits
2) The Pro’s and Con’s of two major methods for charging for your services
3) Strategic negotiating points that will ensure you close the deal.
A $5,000 investment in the bank would increase $3,145 in 10 years. A $5,000 investment in energy efficiency could turn into $55,100 in 10 years! Educating your client is key to your success.
Module 10: Incorporating & Insurance
You’ll Learn:
1) Which company structure is best for you, LLC, S Corp, Partnership
2) The advantages and disadvantages of each corporation structure
3) The basic types of insurance available and how they apply to energy auditing.
Get virtually the same protections as the Blue Chip companies for a fraction of the cost without the restrictive procedural requirements.
Module 11: Immersion Module
You’ll Learn:
1) To turn a 20 minute lunch appointment into serious money in your pocket
2) To identify easy low hanging fruit that can make energy savings easy to do and very
lucrative.
If you do nothing but focus on “low-hanging-fruit”, you can make a great living saving energy. This example shows how you can save a restaurant over $1,000 a year by making some simple changes
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