Preparation for Certified Energy Audit (CEA) and Certified Energy Manager (CEM)
All Sessions: 1:00 to 4:00 at Northeast Utilities following the AEE Utility Breakfast meeting
The CT Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers is embarking on a unique training program to help is members prepare for the CEA and CEM credentials from AEE National. We are looking for technical experts willing to be instructors at one or more of the session listed below. If you have expertise in any of these topics, please contact Bill Leahy at leahyw@easternct.edu to express your interest. We will use as many active AEE members as instructors as practical. Leahy will coordinate the class session.

Session 1: Introduction to Energy Management – January 24, 2012
1. Review course Outline & AEE certification; Energy issues, policies and their impact.
2. Building energy and science including energy units, estimating energy usage; Building assessment, audit fundamentals and types; Energy auditing procedures and planning, audit tools; Energy audit software
3. Utility bill analysis, Utility rate structures; Service, demand and energy charges
4. Conversion factors and formulas, and data required for energy analysis; Data evaluation, energy accounting, energy use profiles, load factor, Benchmarking; Cost & Benefit Analysis, payback, lifecycle analysis, formulas
Session 2: Lighting and Building Envelope – February 21, 2012
1. Measurement of light, Efficiency/efficacy, Light color-CCT/CRI, Lamp lumen depreciation; Lamp types, fixtures and their characteristics, applications.
2. Lighting controls, switches and sensors, automation systems; Daylight harvesting, use of natural light and application, exterior lighting
3. Heat flow, heat loss analysis, Insulation, R and U values; Diagnostics, heat loss calculation, thermography; Building envelope improvements; walls, roof, windows, doors and airlocks
Session 3 – HVAC Systems and Building Automation – March 20, 2012
1. Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning systems and components; Load estimating, ventilation, indoor air quality issues.
2. Control equipment: unit level, pneumatic and direct digital control systems; Control strategies; building automation, control points, and enthalpy controls.
3. Maintenance opportunities; steam trap, insulating, duct cleaning, routine, predictive and preventative maintenance.
Session 4: Combustion Equipment, Chillers and Compressors – April 17, 2012
1. Combustion equipment; heat transfer, maintenance, efficiency and cost saving; Boilers, furnaces, unit ventilators, heat pumps and terminal units
2. Air conditioning equipment; chillers, DX, cooling towers, economizers, thermal storage
3. Domestic hot water systems; storage, distribution systems, point-of-use, circulators, solar thermal
Session 5: Motor Control and Demand Response – May 15, 2012
1. Motor efficiency, variable frequency drives, operating characteristics and efficiencies
2. Demand management: load profiles, load shifting, ISO demand, peak shaving and load shaping; Emergency and peak reduction, load control equipment and metering; interruptible loads.
3. Energy Management Opportunities,
4. Evaluating water and sewer cost,

AEE’s Certified Energy Auditor two day required Exam-Preparation course ($1150) and test ($300) will be available in June 2012 through AEE national

Participants in AEE-CT’s Spring 2012 CEA/CEM Training will have covered all the topics needed for the CEA exam (bold and underlined below). These are also some of the topics required for the CEM Certification Exam. In the Fall and Winter of 2012 – 2013, AEE CT will hold six additional sessions to cover the remaining topics needed for the CEM certification Examination. If you would like to contribute to these classes, please express that interest to Leahy.

In addition, all CEM candidates must also attend one of AEE’s preparatory CEM training seminars, and complete and pass a four-hour written open-book exam, proctored by an approved AEE National exam administrator. Of the seventeen sections on the CEM exam, candidates must complete at a minimum of eleven, including those indicated as required:

1. Codes & Standards & Indoor Air Quality – Required
2. Energy Accounting and Economics – Required
3. Energy Audits and Instrumentation – Required
4. Electrical Systems
5. HVAC Systems
6. Motors and Drives
7. Industrial Systems
8. Building Envelope
9. CHP Systems and Renewable Energy
10. Energy Procurement
11. Building Automation and Control Systems
12. Green Buildings, LEED & Energy Star
13. Thermal Energy Storage Systems
14. Lighting Systems
15. Boiler and Steam Systems
16. Maintenance & Commissioning
17. Alternative Financing

Questions:
Chapter Education Chair: William Leahy
(860) 465-0252
leahyw@easternct.edu