But homeowners often also do a more comprehensive energy audit that includes analysis of heating and cooling.
Each of the facilities has undergone an energy audit and a variety of energy efficiency upgrades will be completed by an energy service company (ESCO).
It also makes each Solar City installation team potentially doubly productive, if it can design a solar installation and do an energy audit in one shot.
After performing an energy audit of the home or commercial building, or assessing the suitability of the rooftop for solar, a contractor recommends improvements to the building owner.
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According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the first step businesses and households should take when trying to improve energy efficiency is performing an audit to identify where energy is being wasted.
Chesapeake Energy, a PwC audit client since its IPO in 1993, made news last week for firing its beleaguered CEO, Aubrey McClendon.
After an audit identifies energy- and water-saving opportunities, property owners wishing to pursue PACE financing enter into an assessment contract with CSCDA to finance the project.
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Barbara Thomas Judge, 66, a corporate lawyer who did three years as an SEC commissioner in her mid-30s, threw herself into learning about nuclear energy after a headhunter recruited her 12 years ago to chair the audit committee of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority.
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An audit is often undertaken to identify energy- and water-saving opportunities.
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The Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is before the Environmental Audit Committee, talking about Carbon Budgets, and Work and Pensions Minister Maria Miller will be giving evident to the Work and Pensions Committee on the new Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission - the replacement for the now defunct Child Support Agency.
An audit has found that EU-funded energy efficiency projects are not cost-effective in EU member states.
The Energy and Climate Change Committee (at 9am) looks into energy prices, profits and poverty with a series of academics and the Environmental Audit Committee (at 10.30am) has its first evidence session on "well-being", a policy approach which attempts to apply the idea of natural capital, to public policy making.
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