Denby Energy Training is written expressly for your success.

Designed for your success.

Denby Energy Home Energy Audit Training Includes:

Intro: Introduction to Energy Auditing

Designed for your success. Denby Energy Audit Training gives you the most comprehensive program available. Our welcome module that explains how the training process works and what you can expect from the course. This module sets the stage for the rest of your energy audit learning by giving you the essential foundation from which all the other elements will build.

You need a strong foundation to build your knowledge

Module 1: Basics of Energy

You’ll Learn:
1) Where energy comes from
2) How it gets to the home
3) How to Read and Understand Energy Bills

Knowing how to read an Energy Bill can save clients hundreds of dollars in wasted energy.

Module 2: Lighting

You’ll Learn:
1) The different types of lighting (CLFs, LEDs, CCFLs, and more)
2) How to quantify exactly how much it costs to run a light bulb
3) How to significantly lower energy bills

The average homeowner spends about $400 a year on lighting alone. With simple changes you can save homeowners about $300!

Module 3: Heating and Cooling

You’ll Learn:
1) How heaters work
2) How air conditioners work
3) How to select and use the air filters
3) How to significantly reduce the energy use without pricey upgrades.

The average homeowner spends over $900 a year on heating and cooling. Simple techniques can save the homeowner hundreds of dollars. For example, installing a programmable thermostat can save up to 15% or $135 alone!

Module 4: Appliances, Water Heaters and Electronics

You’ll Learn:
1) How to identify wasted energy
2) About tank and tankless water heaters.
3) How to save money by installing efficient appliances.
4) Easy to apply strategies and cost effective solutions that work.

The average homeowner can save almost 15% on their water heating bill with one simple strategy – turning down the temperature.

Module 5: Insulation, Doors and Windows

You’ll Learn:
1) The different types of insulation and R value
2) The biggest trouble spots in a home
3) How to properly seal and insulate a home.

Sealing air leaks can reduce heating and cooling costs by up to 10%.

Module 6: Water

You’ll Learn:
1) How water plays a critical role in energy efficiency.
2) How reducing shower loads can save significant money.
3) That new low-flow shower heads look and feel like the real thing – making changes really easy.

A leaking faucet that drips once every 2 seconds is wasting about 1,600 gallons a year – if that is hot water that you just paid to heat, you just wasted money!

Module 7: Advanced Audit Techniques

You’ll Learn:
1) How tools can increase your business.
2) How Blower Doors work, and how to read the outputs.
3) How Duct Blasters work, and how to read the outputs.

Blower doors depressurize the home and test for the amount of air pulled into the house through gaps in the building shell. The door can be used to diagnose the leaks as well as to “rate” the home.

Module 8: Tax Rebates, Credits and other Incentives

You’ll Learn:
1) The critical difference between a tax rebate and tax credit.
2) How to actually calculate rebates and credits.
3) About the major federal tax programs (including the fine-print)
4) Where to go to get the most current and accurate list of rebates, credits and incentives.

A tax rebate of $500 can result in an actual “savings” of only $75. Where as a tax credit would have an actual “savings” of $500.

Commercial Energy Audit Training Includes:

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 significantly 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 electric and 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 efficiency 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.

Online Video Learning is the Best Way to Learn

1) It’s easy. Just sit back and let the video trainer tell you what you need to know.
2) Visual learning. There are lots of pictures, charts and graphs to help you understand the material.
3) Learn on YOUR time. The course is available 24 hours a day, so you learn when you are ready.
4) Problem solving. We give you math problems and help you solve them. So you get to see how the work inside and out-no guess work.
5) Quizzes. At the end of each section you get a short quiz to test your retention.
6) Forward and Rewind. You can move forwards and backwards in the material so you can review and learn.
7) Greater Retention. Because you learn on your time you have better retention.
8) Better results. Because you learn at your pace and can review the materials over again, you will score better on the exam.

What makes our video training so valuable?

It’s produced by the same people who wrote the training and who verified and formulated the exam. So you are certain that what you are learning is what you need to know. There is no guess work about what information is “necessary” and what is “skipable”.

Certification is Important

It is your validation to the world that you are trained
and qualified to do energy audits.

Included With Your Training

Unlike other programs where certification is “extra”. With Denby Energy, Certification testing is included with
every program package.

All Online

Our certification test is all online. You login, take your test (timed), and you get instant results. Retest is only $45, but with a 95% passrate you don’t need to worry about that!

You Get The Best

Our comprehensive training programs include certification testing with the National Energy and Sustainability
Institute (NEASI).

Why NEASI?

1) NEASI is a market leader in certification testing for energy efficiency and energy audit training.
2) NEASI is 100% independent and un-biased. It is a stand-alone certification body that is not
run by, affiliated with or controlled by any of its participating members.
3) NEASI supplies certification testing to an industry leading 6 separate energy efficiency
training companies.
4) NEASI has certified people all over the world. Click here to visit www.NEASI.org

Denby Energy Named Platinum Provider for NEASI

Denby Energy was named a Platinum Provider for NEASI for 3 reasons:
1) Denby Energy has provided the largest number of candidates on record.
2) The Pass-Rate for Denby Energy students is over 95%.
3) The market leadership position of Denby Energy in the energy efficiency training field.

Benefits of Certification

Denby graduates enjoy career flexibility that allows them earn a lucrative income while
helping people save money on their energy bills. Here are some of the best parts about the
Certification Program:

* Confidence: By taking and passing the Certification test you will quickly learn how much you know and how easy it is to make money saving energy.

* Reputation: With the select National Energy and Sustainability Institute Energy Auditor Certification, you will establish a reputation as a true professional.

* Professionalism: Anyone can buy training materials. Only those with the professionalism to take their career to the next level will take and pass the Certified Home Energy Exam.

Home Audit Resources

To be successful you need the right resources.

With our exclusive Home Energy Audit Resource Kit, you get everything you need to perform and audit and write the audit report.

Get the resources that power the largest Tier 1 Home Energy Audit Training in the world.

Checklist A Focused on each room so you can use it room to room.

Checklist B Focused on Energy Target so you can use it target by target.

Checklist C A simplified, quick audit checklist focused on energy targets.

Lighting Worksheet Let’s you list and calculate the lighting in a home and to calculate potential savings from suggested changes.

Lighting Quick-Reference This quick-reference chart lets you instantly “ball-park” lighting savings. Also helpful for use with detailed assessments.

Home Energy Report You get our exclusive full Home Energy Report template that lets you define energy targets for your homeowner and give them solutions to start saving money now.

Calculation Software Our exclusive software is designed to quickly calculate energy cost and savings for your homeowner.

Home Energy Audit Contract Fully customizable for your business.

Home Energy Audit To-Do Lists Setting Goals for you and the homeowner ensures happy clients.

Air Filter Selection Chart Air filters are incredibly important for energy savings, use our exclusive chart to educate your homeowner.

Audit Tips Critical tips that will help you make your business run smoothly.

Commercial Audit Resources

To be successful you need the right resources.

With our exclusive Commercial Energy Audit Resource Kit, you get everything you need to perform and audit and write the audit report.

Get the resources that power the largest Tier 1 Commercial Energy Audit Training in the world.

The checklist is fully customizable, so you can sculpt it as your business grows.

Lighting Worksheet Let’s you list and calculate the lighting in a home and to calculate potential savings from suggested changes.

Lighting Quick-Reference This quick-reference chart lets you instantly “ball-park” lighting savings. Also helpful for use with detailed assessments.

Commercial Energy Report You get our exclusive full Commercial Energy Report template that lets you define energy targets for your homeowner and give them solutions to start saving money now.

Calculation Software Our exclusive software is designed for Commercial Energy Audits, and covers all the major areas of energy use, helping you calculate energy cost and savings for your business owner.

Two Energy Audit Contracts 1st Contract is for payment based on the square feet of the building. 2nd Contract, is for payment based on a % of savings.

Conversion Factors Instantly convert: HP to Watts, Watts to BTUs, Therms to BTUs, and so much more.

Audit Tips Critical tips that will help you make your business run smoothly.

Square Foot Calculator Instantly calculate the cost per square foot with this simple excel worksheet.

Uniform Tables Instantly calculate the cost per square foot with this simple excel worksheet.

Sales and Marketing – Home Energy Audits

Nothing is more critical to your business success than marketing.

Marketing is how you get clients. The better you are at marketing, the more clients and business you will generate. That is why Denby Energy put together the industry’s best Sales and Marketing materials, because your success is our success.

4 Different Flyer Templates

2 Different Door-Hanger Templates

5 Different Postcard Templates

Green Tips Book

Use this book* to learn 120 simple, easy and doable tips for going green. It is packed with tons of small tips to get that extra bit of energy savings, as well as conservation strategies, and other “green” tips to minimize your Life-Footprint.

**You can give this book away to your clients as a gift. **
*Book is provided in electronic form.

Sales and Marketing – Commercial Energy Audits

Nothing is more critical to your business success than marketing.

2 Different Flyer Templates Fully customizable

Tri-fold Brochure Fully customizable

Sales Letter Fully customizable

Business Start Up

We want you to succeed. And we stack the deck in your favor with our exclusive business start up format. With your training purchase, you get the materials you need for business startup.