Categories: NRCan-Registered Energy Advisor Program
When:
Starts October 24, 2023
Duration:
4 days, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm CDT
Registrations Closing:
Monday, October 23rd at 12:00 pm CDT
| Early bird fee | $1145/ Before August 29, 2023 |
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Regular fee (After August 29, 2023) |
$1195 |
| Continuing Education Units (CEU) | 2.4 |
| CSEP points | 4 (+2 for certification) |
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Are you looking to conduct Energy Audits in residential homes? The Greener Homes Initiative aims to provide up to 700,000 grants for homeowners to engage Energy Advisors to conduct assessments and advise on retrofit opportunities. Taking CIET training and writing the Foundation and EA level exams is one of the faster ways to become a full-fledged NRCan-registered Energy Advisor involved in the initiative. |
The CIET Energy Advisor (EA) Prep Course is aimed at providing participants with the knowledge and tools they need to successfully complete the EA exam and grasp the central elements of the daily duties of an EA. Duties include assessing the energy performance of residential homes and providing advice on potential energy savings during the design, construction, and renovation stages.
This four-day training provides participants with a detailed understanding of the processes and steps required to do the work of a registered EA. More specifically, participants gain in-depth knowledge of the information to be collected on existing or new homes, acquire working knowledge of HOT2000, master the EnerGuide Rating System, and understand how to create customized energy efficiency roadmaps for homeowners.
Although the primary goal of this training is to prepare participants for the EA exam, it is also aimed at preparing participants as effective and knowledgeable residential energy sector specialists.
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Note: You must pay and schedule a time to write the exam directly on NRCan’s website. The exam is not administered during the preparation course. After obtaining the energy advisor designation, new energy advisors affiliated with a licensed service organisation will be able to conduct energy evaluations in accordance with NRCan’s EnerGuide Version 15 guidelines, Part 9 on residential buildings, excluding MURBs because these require an additional professional certification. If you have not yet passed the NRCan Foundation level exam, click here for more information on CIET’s Foundation level prep course Looking to get into energy auditing for commercial or institutional buildings? The Certified Energy Auditor course and designation may be right for you. |
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
CIET Virtual Real-Time Classroom training
This training will be offered virtually through Microsoft Teams. Upon enrollment, you will receive the information you will need to enjoy a great training experience.
CIET’s Pan-Canadian Virtual Course Schedule
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EnerGuide Rating System
HOT2000 Modelling Version 11
Administration and Delivery of the EnerGuide Rating System (Version 15)
Quality Assurance of the EnerGuide Rating System
Ian is a licensed professional engineer, Certified Energy Manager (CEM), and NRCan Registered Energy Advisor (REA). Ian is currently certified as a residential energy auditor and has performed over 200 energy audits on houses under past and current incentive programs. Ian’s work includes consulting in the areas of energy management, energy auditing, GHG assessment, and solar assessment.
Recent energy auditing projects include an area in a remote indigenous community, a multi-building assessment for a rural county, a long term care home, a 4000 m2 electronics manufacturing facility, several churches, and building envelop consulting for a deep-energy residential renovation.
Ian was a full-time professor at St Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario for nine years, developing curriculum and teaching in the Energy Systems Engineering Technology program. His areas of teaching included: solar systems design, building science, energy auditing, HVAC, building controls, thermodynamics, and technical writing.
Prior to joining St Lawrence, Ian was co-owner of Quantum Renewable Energy Inc, a Kingston based business that designs and installs renewable energy systems. He was responsible for system design, project management, and supervising construction crews.
Ian built his own ‘super insulated’ rural home in the 1990’s and continues to live there today with solar thermal, and heat pump systems.
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/ian-kilborn-61a77833
You will find all information on Natural Resources Canada's website. Notably, to register as an energy advisor to deliver services under EnerGuide Rating System v.15, energy advisor candidates must demonstrate proficiency by:
For more details on the exam process, you are invited to read the Candidate Exam Handbook by Natural Resources Canada.
Exam related information can be found at https://nrcan.ysasecure.com.
For each of the exams, you are invited to read the appropriate Exam Competency Profiles found in the ERS-EnerGuide Rating System v15/ERS v.15 Competencies section of the File Exchange website. To obtain login details, please contact us at nrcan.homes-maisons.rncan@canada.ca. In the Subject section, please write “EG”.
You will find all information on Natural Resources Canada's website. Notably, you must:
To access reference documents such as the EnerGuide Rating System v.15, the exam competency profiles as well as Candidate Exam Handbooks, please contact nrcan.homes-maisons.rncan@canada.ca.
CIET has also developed two supplementary study guides to help participants with items identified as the most difficult, namely the Foundation Level Exam Study Guide and Energy Advisor Exam Study Guide.
Access to a private SharePoint website with additional training material, references, and links.
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