Energywiz offers three courses not available elsewhere. All three are provided through a secure Internet connection and a toll-free telephone number. Slides appear on your screen, while Lindsay Audin converses with you through your speakerphone. A full set of the slides may be downloaded in advance, or during the class, and an audio recording of the event is available for review for two weeks after the event. Registration and connection details are handled through the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE).

 

 

 

Buying Power in Competitive Retail Markets will show you how to buy power on your own terms, instead of just how your utility wants to sell it to you. In this 6-hour seminar (2 hours each on three consecutive days), Lindsay Audin walks you through:

• how the electricity supply industry has changed, and is changing
   
• preparing your facility to buy power, both the first time and after
   
• what you can do to affect the price you pay
   
• analyzing power contracts and avoiding their pitfalls
   
• finding and qualifying acceptable bidders
   
• assembling a power RFI/RFP
   
• handling competitive bids and auctions
   
• finding and choosing a consultant to help you
   
• ways to take full advantage of this process.
  
  
  For more details and registration, go to http://www.aeecenter.org/realtime/powerpurchasing
   This course is given quarterly.

• understanding and portraying basic load shapes
   
• securing and configuring smart (i.e., interval) meter data
  
   
• analyzing customer energy loads using such data
   
• designing, specifying, funding, and installing interval metering
   
• charting loads in three dimensions to better understand and control them
   
• converting data from utilities and meters into Excel-compatible arrays
   
• creating and employing Load Duration Curves to set peak demand limits
   
• participating in demand response programs
   
• finding and qualifying demand response providers
   
• evaluating demand response provider contracts
  
  Excel macros and charting templates are provided to all attendees.
  
  For more details and registration, go to https://www.aeeprograms.com/realtime/LPonline

   

  . This course is given every two months.