What is energy auditing?
Energy Audits are a crucial first step in increasing the energy efficiency of your home or place of business, which lowers your energy costs and your impact on the environment. Energy Auditing is the process by which trained professionals measure the energy efficiency of your home or place of business, using industry certified and accredited standards. An inspection typically takes between two and three hours and includes a variety of tests designed to understand how your home is performing. We have a baseline set of inspections and tests and let you and the home guide us toward other applicable tests. The data we gather is entered into a RESNET (hotlink: www.natresnet.org/) accredited computer program and translated into a rating score. Because a rating quantifies the energy performance of a home, the rating score provides an easily understandable means to compare more efficient homes by their relative energy efficiency. A HERS rating results in a score that is based on national stand
