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Certified Energy Audit Professional (CEAP)

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Earn Accrevia’s Certified Energy Audit Professional (CEAP) certificate and build readiness for external credentialing.
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What you'll learn

  • Plan and conduct energy audits by defining scope, audit level, team, data needs, fieldwork, reporting, follow-up, standards, codes, and sector requirements.
  • Analyze facility and fleet energy use using tariffs, baselines, normalization, regression, indicators, trends, benchmarking, and end-use breakdowns.
  • Collect, organize, and validate pre-site and on-site data; identify, prioritize, and model efficiency measures while accounting for interactive effects.
  • Evaluate energy projects using costs, cash flows, payback, NPV, IRR, life-cycle methods, break-even, sensitivity, scenarios, risks, and client criteria.
  • Audit lighting systems by assessing sources, fixtures, controls, power density, illumination, daylighting, maintenance, retrofit options, and savings.
  • Audit HVAC, heating, cooling, boiler, furnace, and ventilation systems by evaluating equipment, controls, efficiency, O&M, measures, and energy savings.
  • Assess domestic hot water and water systems, including efficiency, setpoints, recirculation, irrigation, conservation, O&M, savings, costs, and reporting.
  • Evaluate motors, drives, VFDs, and compressed air systems, including operation, controls, efficiency, O&M, leaks, heat recovery, and energy savings.
  • Assess building envelope performance through R- and U-values, walls, roofs, windows, infiltration, thermal mass, O&M, modelling, and savings.
  • Evaluate building, process, and energy control systems through strategies, control points, operator practices, trends, sensors, data quality, O&M, and savings.
  • Assess renewable generation and energy storage technologies, site constraints, costs, integration, incentives, demand response, and project opportunities.
  • Analyze transport energy across modes and fleets through fuel data, operations, maintenance, logistics, benchmarking, modelling, monitoring, and improvements.
This course includes:
52.5 total hours on-demand video
0 articles
606 downloadable resources
304 lessons
Full lifetime access
Access on mobile and TV
Certificate of completion
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Course content

Requirements

  • This course is best suited to graduates, master’s and postgraduate learners, and working professionals with a basic understanding of energy use in buildings, facilities, industrial operations, or transport. Participants should be proficient in English and comfortable interpreting technical data, formulas, and multi-step energy and financial calculations. Prior experience in engineering, energy management, facilities, operations, maintenance, sustainability, or energy auditing is helpful but not essential, provided learners have a strong interest in energy efficiency and performance improvement.

Description

“This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.”

Certified Energy Audit Professional (CEAP) is an advanced course for graduates and working professionals who want to develop a disciplined, organization-ready approach to energy auditing. It builds the professional judgement, analytical capability, and structured thinking required to move beyond general energy-saving ideas and produce findings that are technically sound, financially informed, clearly documented, and practical to implement.

In today’s organizations, energy performance has a direct impact on operating costs, asset reliability, productivity, sustainability commitments, regulatory responsibilities, and long-term investment planning. Organizations are expected to understand how energy is being used, where avoidable losses occur, which improvement opportunities deserve priority, and whether proposed savings can be justified with reliable evidence. Professional energy auditing provides the connection between technical conditions, operational realities, financial priorities, and management decisions.

This course develops the capability to approach energy audits with consistency, accuracy, transparency, and professional judgement. Learners strengthen their ability to examine energy and operational information critically, assess data quality, establish dependable baselines, recognize performance gaps, evaluate improvement opportunities, and consider the technical, financial, operational, and implementation factors that influence decision-making.

A credible energy audit must do more than identify possible savings. It must explain the existing condition, support recommendations with appropriate evidence, document assumptions and limitations, account for uncertainty, and present expected benefits in a form that decision-makers can understand. CEAP develops the ability to communicate findings clearly to engineering, operations, maintenance, finance, procurement, sustainability, and management teams, helping different functions work from a shared and reliable basis.

Strong audit practice also depends on traceable methods, appropriate levels of analysis, awareness of recognized standards, and responsible professional boundaries. These principles help ensure that audit findings remain credible when supporting operational improvements, capital approvals, procurement decisions, compliance activities, sustainability planning, decarbonization initiatives, and future measurement and verification. They also reduce the risk of overstated savings, incomplete recommendations, weak assumptions, and poorly prioritized investments.

The course promotes an implementation-focused approach to energy auditing. Learners develop an understanding of how recommendations should be prioritized, how responsibilities and next steps should be defined, and how performance should be reviewed after improvements are introduced. This helps turn audit reports from static documents into practical tools for cost control, performance improvement, accountability, and continuous organizational progress.

For individual professionals, CEAP strengthens technical credibility, analytical confidence, financial awareness, professional communication, and the ability to support evidence-based decisions. For organizations, it supports stronger internal capability, more consistent audit quality, improved coordination between technical and business functions, better use of energy data, and more defensible investment planning. The course provides a clear professional framework for turning energy information into responsible, prioritized, and implementation-ready action.

Each lecture includes dedicated study material and an infographic summary. Where applicable, the study material includes all numerical example problems covered in the course, along with the corresponding formulas and detailed step-by-step calculations to support accurate understanding and practical application. Learners should review the study material after watching each lecture to reinforce their understanding and use the infographic summary for quick revision and easy recall of key concepts whenever needed.

Disclaimer: Certified Energy Audit Professional (CEAP) is an independent energy auditing training and exam-preparation course. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by AEE or the owners of the Certified Energy Auditor (CEA) credential. Successful completion of this course earns an Accrevia Certificate of Completion—a verifiable credential with a unique QR code and Certificate ID that employers and organizations can use to confirm authenticity.

Who this course is for:

  • Students, Graduates & Postgraduate Learners: For final-year students, fresh graduates, master’s students, postgraduate learners, and advanced academic learners in engineering, energy, sustainability, facilities, the built environment, or related fields who want to understand how professional energy audits are planned, conducted, analyzed, and reported.
  • Early-Career & Working Professionals: For engineers, technicians, analysts, and other working professionals who want to strengthen their knowledge of energy systems, data analysis, efficiency opportunities, financial evaluation, and professional audit practices to support career growth or expanded responsibilities.
  • Energy Auditing & Energy Management Professionals: For energy auditors, energy managers, energy analysts, consultants, and efficiency specialists who want to improve their approach to audit scoping, utility analysis, baselines, field measurements, energy modelling, opportunity prioritization, reporting, and implementation follow-up.
  • Engineering, Facilities, Operations & Maintenance Professionals: For mechanical, electrical, building-services, industrial, and energy engineers, facility managers, operators, technicians, and maintenance teams responsible for equipment performance, operating conditions, controls, maintenance practices, energy losses, and efficiency improvements.
  • Building Systems, Automation & Commissioning Professionals: For HVAC, lighting, BAS, controls, automation, commissioning, and building-performance professionals who work with system operation, control strategies, sensors, trend logs, equipment scheduling, data quality, optimization, and performance verification.
  • Sustainability, Decarbonization & Compliance Professionals: For sustainability managers, environmental professionals, decarbonization practitioners, and compliance teams who need a technical understanding of energy performance, ISO 50001, ASHRAE 211, ISO 50002, energy codes, performance indicators, and continual improvement.
  • Project, Finance & Senior Decision-Makers: For project managers, finance teams, procurement professionals, capital-planning personnel, consultants, department heads, and senior leaders who evaluate energy initiatives using costs, payback, NPV, IRR, life-cycle methods, sensitivity analysis, risk, and implementation priorities.
  • Renewable Energy, Storage & Utility Professionals: For professionals involved in renewable generation, energy storage, utilities, distributed energy, demand response, cogeneration, resilience, or electrification who need to assess technical suitability, site constraints, integration, incentives, costs, and project opportunities.
  • Transport, Fleet & Logistics Professionals: For fleet managers, transport planners, logistics professionals, vehicle operations teams, and transport-energy analysts who want to evaluate fuel and electricity use, vehicle performance, maintenance, routes, benchmarking, modelling, monitoring, and energy improvement opportunities.
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