How to Start an Energy Audit and Efficiency Consultancy
Course overview: Learn how to measure building energy performance, recommend cost-effective improvements, quantify carbon and financial savings, create professional reports, and convert audits into retrofit projects.
This practical course shows you how to turn expertise in building energy measurement, efficiency improvements, carbon reduction, and retrofit business cases into a market-ready energy-efficiency consultancy serving commercial property owners, facilities teams, and organisations reducing operating costs and emissions.
What you will learn
- Validate demand, choose a profitable niche, and define the ideal customer for your offer.
- Package a clear solution, scope deliverables, and select the tools, technology, suppliers, or partners required for delivery.
- Create pricing, budgets, contracts, quality controls, and operating processes that protect customer outcomes and profit margins.
- Build a credible pilot, portfolio, or proof of concept and use it to approach commercial property owners, facilities teams, and organisations reducing operating costs and emissions.
- Develop a practical sales, launch, support, referral, and recurring-revenue plan.
Who this course is for
Designed for engineers, technical professionals, consultants, product builders, and aspiring founders who want to create a energy-efficiency consultancy.
Course outcome
By the end of the course, you will have a focused business concept, a defined customer profile, a packaged offer, an initial pricing model, and a step-by-step plan for winning your first customers.
