Preparing for a Home Energy Audit
Before your Pro Energy Consultant visits your house, prepare a list of any existing problems in your home. A typical list might include condensation on windows, window panes, baseboards or drywall. It may also include uncomfortably hot, cold or drafty rooms. Don’t be afraid to list even the smallest concerns.
Have copies or a summary of your home's yearly energy bills. It is important that it be for the whole year, since seasons obviously affect energy usage. Our consultants use this information to establish what to look for during the thermal scan.
Be prepared for your consultant to ask a few questions regarding your family’s behavior:
Is anyone home during working hours?
What is the average thermostat setting for summer and winter?
How many people live here?
Is every room in use?
Often times, your Pro Energy Consultant can recommend ways to save energy and money before even performing the scan.
The Scan
Then, it will be time for the scan. First, your consultant will analyze the outside of the house, determining the size of the house and its features (i.e., wall area, number and size of windows). We recommend that you walk along with your consultant as they perform the scan. You’ll learn exactly what’s happening and he may have additional questions for you as he is scanning.
After the Scan
Your consultant will provide you an audit report. This report will include thermographic pictures of your problem areas. It will also include the consultant’s narrative and professional opinion. The consultant will then sit down with you and, together, you can review where your home is losing energy, how much energy you’re losing, the different solutions for those energy inefficiencies.
The cost of Residential Energy Audits start at under $300. Almost all audit customers see significant energy savings. You could be saving tens if not hundreds of dollars a month in utility bills.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Comercial Services
Pro Energy Consultants has years of experience providing energy auditing services to businesses in hundreds of different industries across the country.
What can we audit?
Commercial buildings looking for accurate information on their energy usage and ideas on how to improve it.
Manufacturers and industrial clients with mechanical systems that need to be preemptively reviewed before they breakdown and stop production. There is no more cost effective preventative maintenance than an energy audit.
Companies in regulated industries needing to meet environmental and safety code. Thermal scans are easily the best way to prevent electrical fires.
What can we audit?
Commercial buildings looking for accurate information on their energy usage and ideas on how to improve it.
Manufacturers and industrial clients with mechanical systems that need to be preemptively reviewed before they breakdown and stop production. There is no more cost effective preventative maintenance than an energy audit.
Companies in regulated industries needing to meet environmental and safety code. Thermal scans are easily the best way to prevent electrical fires.
Monday, November 17, 2008
What is a Blower Door?
A blower door is a large fan that is mounted into an outside door frame that measures the air leaks (drafts) of the house. The blower door helps find the air leaks by depressurizing the house (blowing indoor air outside).
Why is the Blower Door Important? The blower door is hooked up to sensors inside and outside of the house and also to a computer. The computer program based on information from the sensors creates a report that measures how many air exchanges your home has per day. Your home breathes air into your house and out of your house. This is healthy for you and your family. But if your home breathes too much, it is costing your family money. Each air exchange must be reheated and recooled. If your home should ideally have 10 air exchanges a day, but actually has 14 air exchanges a day, you’re heating and cooling 4 extra air exchanges per day! After air sealing comes energy savings!
Why is the Blower Door Important? The blower door is hooked up to sensors inside and outside of the house and also to a computer. The computer program based on information from the sensors creates a report that measures how many air exchanges your home has per day. Your home breathes air into your house and out of your house. This is healthy for you and your family. But if your home breathes too much, it is costing your family money. Each air exchange must be reheated and recooled. If your home should ideally have 10 air exchanges a day, but actually has 14 air exchanges a day, you’re heating and cooling 4 extra air exchanges per day! After air sealing comes energy savings!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
We Can help If . . .
1. You think your utility bills are higher than they should be.
2. You think your utility bills are higher than your neighbors.
3. You suspect your is losing heat or air-conditioned air through certain parts of your home.
4. You suspect your home is not as energy efficient as it should be.
5. You feel cold or drafty places in your home.
6. You feel big temperature differences from room to room.
7. You would like to know how to make your home as green as it could be.
Your local Pro Energy Consultant has the experience and expertise to help you determine where your home is wasting energy and where you can save money. With gas, oil and electricity prices rising everyday, most Americans are paying more for their utilities than ever before.
If you regularly receive utility bills totaling in the hundreds of dollars range, you’re probably paying too much for your energy, month after month, season after season, year after year.
Once an energy audit has been performed on your home, your Pro Energy Consultant can guide you through your options. It’s a relatively simple formula.
MAXIMIZE YOUR HOME’S ENERGY EFFICIENCY = MINIMIZE YOUR ENERGY BILLS.
2. You think your utility bills are higher than your neighbors.
3. You suspect your is losing heat or air-conditioned air through certain parts of your home.
4. You suspect your home is not as energy efficient as it should be.
5. You feel cold or drafty places in your home.
6. You feel big temperature differences from room to room.
7. You would like to know how to make your home as green as it could be.
Your local Pro Energy Consultant has the experience and expertise to help you determine where your home is wasting energy and where you can save money. With gas, oil and electricity prices rising everyday, most Americans are paying more for their utilities than ever before.
If you regularly receive utility bills totaling in the hundreds of dollars range, you’re probably paying too much for your energy, month after month, season after season, year after year.
Once an energy audit has been performed on your home, your Pro Energy Consultant can guide you through your options. It’s a relatively simple formula.
MAXIMIZE YOUR HOME’S ENERGY EFFICIENCY = MINIMIZE YOUR ENERGY BILLS.
Friday, November 14, 2008
What We Do
What We Do
In order to determine the best solution for you and your home, Pro Energy will take you through a 2-step process.
Step 1: A Comprehensive Energy Audit
Many people cringe at the mere mention of the word “audit”. Don’t worry, we’re not the IRS and this kind of audit is a good thing.
Pro Energy audits go into great detail. Your Pro Energy Consultant will do a room-by-room examination of your residence.
How The Pro Energy Exam Works
Your Pro Energy Consultant will use thermography—or infrared scanning—to detect thermal defects and air leakage in your home.
Using an infrared camera, we measure surface temperatures. These readings make images called thermograms. From these thermograms, we can determine a number of things, like whether insulation has been installed correctly or is missing. Our thermographic scans can also be used on electrical systems to identify abnormally “hot” components or connections. And they can find inefficiencies in your ducting and heating and cooling systems.
Thermographic scans are also commonly used with a blower door test. The blower door is simply a big fan that helps change the pressure in your home and helps exaggerate air leaking through defects in the home’s walls. Such air leaks appear as black streaks in the infrared camera's viewfinder.
Step 2: Your Consultation
At Pro Energy, we don’t just point out your home’s problems and then wish you good luck. After your audit, we will sit down with you. Together, we’ll provide a detailed report and review the results of your audit. We’ll also analyze your current and previous utility bills and interview you regarding your personal experiences (drafty rooms, rooms that are hard to keep cool, etc.)
With all this, we’ll explain to you where your home is operating inefficiently. We’ll describe your options for remedy and we’ll help you put together a plan based upon your budget, goals and timeline.
In order to determine the best solution for you and your home, Pro Energy will take you through a 2-step process.
Step 1: A Comprehensive Energy Audit
Many people cringe at the mere mention of the word “audit”. Don’t worry, we’re not the IRS and this kind of audit is a good thing.
Pro Energy audits go into great detail. Your Pro Energy Consultant will do a room-by-room examination of your residence.
How The Pro Energy Exam Works
Your Pro Energy Consultant will use thermography—or infrared scanning—to detect thermal defects and air leakage in your home.
Using an infrared camera, we measure surface temperatures. These readings make images called thermograms. From these thermograms, we can determine a number of things, like whether insulation has been installed correctly or is missing. Our thermographic scans can also be used on electrical systems to identify abnormally “hot” components or connections. And they can find inefficiencies in your ducting and heating and cooling systems.
Thermographic scans are also commonly used with a blower door test. The blower door is simply a big fan that helps change the pressure in your home and helps exaggerate air leaking through defects in the home’s walls. Such air leaks appear as black streaks in the infrared camera's viewfinder.
Step 2: Your Consultation
At Pro Energy, we don’t just point out your home’s problems and then wish you good luck. After your audit, we will sit down with you. Together, we’ll provide a detailed report and review the results of your audit. We’ll also analyze your current and previous utility bills and interview you regarding your personal experiences (drafty rooms, rooms that are hard to keep cool, etc.)
With all this, we’ll explain to you where your home is operating inefficiently. We’ll describe your options for remedy and we’ll help you put together a plan based upon your budget, goals and timeline.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
With Economy Dropping and Energy Costs Rising, Pro Energy Consultants Launches the First National Brand in Residential Energy Auditing
PEC Holdings, LLC. has joined forces with Cleveland-based Home Energy Consultants, to form Pro Energy Consultants. Pro Energy will provide comprehensive technical, operational and marketing support to affiliate partners across the country in the burgeoning residential energy auditing industry. With household budgets tightening, energy costs soaring, and environmental awareness on the rise, residential energy audits are exploding onto the national small business landscape. Their proven business model uniquely qualifies Pro Energy Consultants to meet this unprecedented demand for qualified residential energy auditors.
Energy Auditing, the use of thermographic, infrared imaging to determine wasteful energy use, was previously only available to big business and industry. For years, businesses with high energy usage and critical mechanical systems have been using thermographic energy audits to determine energy efficiency and to prevent mechanical breakdown. Today, demand for anything that will help residential consumers save money, especially on rising energy costs, is at an all-time-high. At the same time, thermographic imaging technologies have become considerably less expensive, allowing auditors, like Pro Energy, to offer valuable residential energy audits for just a few hundred dollars.
Joining an experienced franchise operations company with one of the most experienced energy auditing companies in the nation was a natural fit, according to PEC Managing Partner Kris Simonich. “There is a real need for professional, standardized energy auditing that is not currently being met. Right now, there is incredible demand with little certification and less regulation. We have many years of experience successfully developing, launching and operating national franchise systems and Pro Energy Consultants has immediately become one of the nation’s most prominent educators of energy auditing professionals”.
By partnering with Home Energy Consultants, veterans of over 13 years in residential energy auditing, they combine PEC’s extensive business and operational experience with Home Energy Consultants unique training techniques and professional auditing methodologies. This combination will help Pro Energy Consultants offer a quality brand to a clamoring, energy-conscious public. Pro Energy Consultants is currently seeking affiliate auditors nationwide. Energy auditing is a real home-based opportunity for budding entrepreneurs with a passion for the environment and for customer service. For many fearful for their jobs or looking to establish a significant second income, energy auditing can help some realize their dream of owning a low cost, highly profitable business. “It’s a great chance to fire your boss and do something meaningful and lucrative for a living”, says Simonich.
By combining the expertise of both previous companies, Pro Energy Consultants is the only company in the country with over a decade of energy auditing and franchising experience. Pro Energy Consultants is in a unique position to offer its affiliates the chance to take proven business and marketing strategies to a fledgling industry with very little competition.
For additional information on Pro Energy opportunities or to learn more about Pro Energy's services, contact Kris Simonich by phone at (888)9PROENERGY, or by email at kris@proenergyconsultants.com. You can also visit our website at http://www.proenergyconsultants.com
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Energy Auditing, the use of thermographic, infrared imaging to determine wasteful energy use, was previously only available to big business and industry. For years, businesses with high energy usage and critical mechanical systems have been using thermographic energy audits to determine energy efficiency and to prevent mechanical breakdown. Today, demand for anything that will help residential consumers save money, especially on rising energy costs, is at an all-time-high. At the same time, thermographic imaging technologies have become considerably less expensive, allowing auditors, like Pro Energy, to offer valuable residential energy audits for just a few hundred dollars.
Joining an experienced franchise operations company with one of the most experienced energy auditing companies in the nation was a natural fit, according to PEC Managing Partner Kris Simonich. “There is a real need for professional, standardized energy auditing that is not currently being met. Right now, there is incredible demand with little certification and less regulation. We have many years of experience successfully developing, launching and operating national franchise systems and Pro Energy Consultants has immediately become one of the nation’s most prominent educators of energy auditing professionals”.
By partnering with Home Energy Consultants, veterans of over 13 years in residential energy auditing, they combine PEC’s extensive business and operational experience with Home Energy Consultants unique training techniques and professional auditing methodologies. This combination will help Pro Energy Consultants offer a quality brand to a clamoring, energy-conscious public. Pro Energy Consultants is currently seeking affiliate auditors nationwide. Energy auditing is a real home-based opportunity for budding entrepreneurs with a passion for the environment and for customer service. For many fearful for their jobs or looking to establish a significant second income, energy auditing can help some realize their dream of owning a low cost, highly profitable business. “It’s a great chance to fire your boss and do something meaningful and lucrative for a living”, says Simonich.
By combining the expertise of both previous companies, Pro Energy Consultants is the only company in the country with over a decade of energy auditing and franchising experience. Pro Energy Consultants is in a unique position to offer its affiliates the chance to take proven business and marketing strategies to a fledgling industry with very little competition.
For additional information on Pro Energy opportunities or to learn more about Pro Energy's services, contact Kris Simonich by phone at (888)9PROENERGY, or by email at kris@proenergyconsultants.com. You can also visit our website at http://www.proenergyconsultants.com
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