GreenFaith’s Professional Grade Energy Audit

This energy audit is a state-of-the-art energy audit performed by Andrew Rudin, one of the world’s most experienced energy auditors of religious facilities. GreenFaith then organizes three related consultations.

Here's how it works:

• GreenFaith organizes an initial consultation to orient your leadership team about energy conservation.
• GreenFaith helps you analyze your current energy usage patterns to develop a baseline for measurement purposes and to compare your energy usage to other facilities. GreenFaith will also provide resources to help you quantify the environmental impact of your energy use.
• GreenFaith conducts a site visit to evaluate your facility and to identify conservation opportunities. GreenFaith staff will review the following: lighting, temperature controls, furnace/boiler/HVAC performance, appliances, insulation and weather-stripping, and energy management practices. GreenFaith will also check your billing to ensure that your facility is being billed at the proper tariff level, and provide contact information for potential rebates on energy efficiency retrofits.
• GreenFaith will install temperature monitors to measure the temperature at key locations in your facility.
• GreenFaith produces a detailed written report with recommendations for energy conservation, including estimated energy and financial savings and environmental benefits. This report will include detailed recommendations on equipment suggested for retrofits, and will include the cost of equipment.
• GreenFaith will consult with your leadership team to review the report recommendations.
• After 3-5 months, GreenFaith will consult again with your leadership team to review progress on implementing the conservation measures.
• GreenFaith’s Energy Auditor will be available by phone on an ongoing basis for consultation.

Cost: $80/hour; travel from Philadelphia billed at $40/hr. Audits range in price from $900 - $2,000, depending on the size and complexity of the facility.

Additional Requirements

• Past two years of energy bills for your institution
• Signed, good-faith commitment from ordained leader and leader of governing body to make best effort to implement the Audit recommendations
• Commitment to print newsletter article educating your members about the audit
• Commitment to distribute GreenFaith Home Energy Tips and Adopt-a-Windmill brochure (materials provided by GreenFaith) to individual members through newsletter, worship insert, or other means
• Leadership Team of at least 4 individuals who commit to the 3 consultations

The following samples will give you a sense of the thoroughness and usefulness of the professional grade energy audit, and how one would reflect the specifics of your facility and organization:

Temple Beth El, Closter, NJ - a synagogue constructed in mid-century with a later addition

Shiloh Baptist Church - an urban congregation, heavily used, with a building suffering from deferred maintenance

St. Joseph's Seminary - a large, old facility

Find out more about Energy Auditor Andrew Rudin at www.interfaithenergy.com.

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