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The GreenHome Institute is an official Department of Energy Partner and is here to help you take your home energy rating, contracting services, or home inspection business to the next level by training you to become a Home Energy Score Assessor.
The Home Energy Score is a simple, fast, and more accurate way to evaluate an existing home before and after renovation, helping homeowners understand their energy usage and meet their goals to reduce energy use.
Hold a credential in one of these certifications at a minimum. GHI Can assist you with many of these if you need training
Additional Credentials Available Here
https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/home-energy-score/become-assessor
DOE Home Energy Score Assessor online training: 8 – 12 hours
You must complete an online home energy audit simulation and an online open-book/open-note exam. You can take this course on demand, on your own time and at your own pace, or attend one of our live or on-demand online simulation trainings.
The goal of this GreenHome Institute supplementary training session is to give you confidence in completing your DOE Home Energy Score virtual home energy audit simulation test questions and exam.
Prior to taking the course, you must get access to the simulator by submitting your application here
https://greenhomeinstitute.org/education/home-energy-score-assessor-interest-form/
Your first official Home Energy Score assessment must be mentored by an experienced Home Energy Score Assessor designated as a Mentor.
You will have 180 days to complete this mentorship from the time you pass the simulation course; otherwise, you will need to retake the full course. After you complete the simulation course, the GreenHome Institute will contact you to schedule your mentoring, and we will share these details with you or something similar to it so you can understand our mentoring process
Maintain your baseline credentials. GHI provides many free weekly live and recorded CE webinars to help you do this.
Assess a home every 180 days; otherwise, you need to retrain online for free, though no mentorship is needed.
Unless you are part of some special program that either waves the HES fees or pays you directly back, the costs of each submission are corrected to $31.50 per assessment for GHI Members and $35.00 for non-GHI members billed out monthly by GreenHome Institute. There are no costs for submittals on GreenStar Homes registered projects.
All active home energy score assessors will now be sent a link to a special box.com invite; box.com will be used to do photo documentation for each home you visit so we can complete quality assurance on the home. It also helps if an issue or dispute arises in a real estate or contractor transaction based on home features; we have documented evidence of what was in the home per your assessment. In some ways, you can think of it as similar to a home inspector’s report. On the box file, we have two documents for you on how you need to capture and document information on box.com.
This will be detailed in your GHI Asessor MOU.
Homes that score 5 or are brought up to 5 can be GreenStar Homes Certified. Additional nonenergy benefits such as health, materials, water, and place also need to be addressed and evaluated, and you may be interested in doing this. Here are more details and information on our upcoming GreenHome Inspector training, which you prequalify for as a HES assessor.
Here are more details on the GreenStar Homes Program
Yes.
You may be interested in working with different partners based on the markets they serve, funding and/or incentives available to do assessments. We encourage you to partner with others as needed. It only requires that you have a separate email account for each partner.