Online Courses
Our customizable learning platform provides training, courses and exams—giving you and your customers the tools and know-how to identify and implement energy-saving opportunities now, and to maintain savings in the future.
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How to Form an Energy Team
Understand the benefits of forming an energy team, including diversified knowledge and building enthusiasm. You’ll learn who should be on the team, their roles, common energy team tasks and resources necessary to be successful. -
How to Write an Energy Policy
An energy policy is a formal plan that helps your organization pursue a high-performance energy portfolio. This course walks through the process of creating an energy policy and provides examples of proven policies implemented by successful organizations. -
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How to Get and Record Energy Data
This course takes users through the process of finding, understanding and recording energy data from bills and other sources. It provides tips for organizing data, and an introduction to recording energy baselines used to measure progress. -
How to Perform an Energy Audit
An energy audit helps your organization find practical opportunities to save energy. This course provides a step-by-step approach for performing an audit. It includes methods to translate audit results into meaningful energy projects, and the importance of acting on audit results.
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How to Find Free Help or Hire Professionals
If your organization is considering implementing an energy program or project, this course compares the type of assistance that is available. It covers cost-free help from your utility, skilled trade professionals and consultants that are available for hire. You’ll also learn tips for hiring and working with paid.
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How to Choose the Best Energy Projects
This step-by-step approach guides you through the process of identifying, evaluating, scoring and selecting energy projects. It reviews the importance of necessary research, and securing resources and approvals to ensure success.
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How to Estimate Costs for Energy Projects
This course takes a common-sense approach to options for calculating the costs, savings and the payback timeframe of energy projects. It walks users through an example of calculating investment payback using the Simple Lifecycle Cost method (SLCC).
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How to Convert Measurements to Common Units
During this course you’ll learn about common energy units such as kilowatts, therms, gallons and BTUs. Examples of how to convert common units, including converting energy units to dollars, is included.
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How to Translate Data into Performance
This course explains how to create a baseline using simple averaging, single and multi-variable regression. It provides examples, including how to use spreadsheets to develop your organization’s baseline for use in monitoring and tracking performance and data visualization techniques.
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How to Set and Achieve Energy Goals
This course explains how clear goals can help you work together toward a vision to accomplish greater savings. It presents a step-by-step method to set and achieve energy goals, targets, projects and action plans. -
How to Manage the Energy that Matters Most
This course goes through a step-by-step process for identifying your organization's Significant Energy Uses (SEUs) to help prioritize your energy project efforts. It includes examples of using the process and identifies effective SEUs.
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How to Choose Performance Indicators
During this course you will learn how to set goals and measure results, including a step-by-step process for setting and documenting meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for tracking performance. You’ll learn about the energy-intensity KPI and the benefits of using it to strengthen your energy management program.
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