Energy Analyst / Auditor

Career Area: Planning and Analysis

Occupation Group: Energy and Sustainability Specialists

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Energy Analyst / Auditor earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $63,653

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $69,275

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Inspects homes or commercial facilities and advises customers on how to improve energy efficiency and save on energy costs. Researches energy use on a larger scale, monitors costs, demand and supplies and distribution of different energy sources such as gas or oil.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Energy Analyst / Auditor is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.
• Research: Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Energy Efficiency: Efficient energy use, sometimes simply calledenergy efficiency, is the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services.
• Renewable Energy: Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
• Sales: Experience selling products or services to consumers.
• Customer Service: Working experience with the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.
• Energy Consulting: Energy consulting is a sub-discipline of environmental consulting that focuses on optimizing a business' energy usage, as well as the sources from which the actual energy is derived.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Energy Analyst / Auditor that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Energy Industry: The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution.
• Building Science: Working experience of Building Science, which is the collection of scientific knowledge and experience that focuses on the analysis and control of the physical phenomena affecting buildings and architecture.
• Energy Markets: Energy markets are commodity markets that deal specifically with the trade and supply of energy.
• Clean Energy: Clean energy is energy, as electricity or nuclear power, that does not pollute the atmosphere when used, as opposed to coal and oil, that do.
• Weatherization: Weatherization (American English) or weatherproofing (British English) is the practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements, particularly from sunlight, precipitation, and wind, and of modifying a building to reduce energy consumption and optimize energy efficiency.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Solar Sales: Working experience of Solar Sales. Knoalge of the Solar Industry and making sales within this context
• Solar Consultation: Since each home is unique, a solar consultation and assessment is required to measure your roof and sun exposure in order to give you the most accurate estimate of costs and potential savings figures.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Energy Consultant
• Energy Analyst
• Energy Manager
• Energy Auditor
• Renewable Energy Consultant

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• Renewable Energy Engineer
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