Pitfalls & Profits in Performance Contracting Online Seminar

Earns 0.8 CEU / 8 PDH

Member/Government/Non Profit Price: $845.00
Non-Member Price: $895.00

NOTE: Seminar fees listed are per person for a single audio and video connection for individual use, and may not be shared with other users. All participants must individually pre-register for the desired course in order to participate. If you would like pricing information on multiple registrations for the same seminar, please contact: Valerie Oviatt, phone 770-925-9633, email: valerie@aeecenter.org.  

Presented online in a series of four live two-hour time modules, this seminar is designed to provide comprehensive professional training in the effective use of performance contracting for energy projects, including how to avoid the types of problems which can seriously impair the success of potentially effective and profitable projects.

You can participate in the seminar from your office, home, or anywhere you have access to the internet and a phone. You'll have opportunities to interact with your instructor and colleagues in real time during the four live teleconferencing sessions, as well as in the time between sessions.

About the Seminar

Despite all its potential and many successes, performance contracting (PC) has had its share of pitfalls. While PC has been the critical answer to energy efficiency needs and tight money problems, sometimes difficulties are ignored or covered up. In some instances, problems have kept projects from saving the energy and/or the money promised. All too often simple steps could have avoided these very painful results. Dr. Shirley Hansen, who has been a strong advocate of PC for 25 years in over 30 countries, has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. In this course, she reveals many dilemmas facing customers and ESCOs, which could have been avoided. This 8-hour online course will provide you with:

• A battery of tips that could save you millions
• A critical look at the basics, which often elude us
• A hard look at the real risks in PC
• Ways ESCOs can avoid being dubbed "creatively challenged"
• Procedures to deal with difficult customers and ineffective ESCOs
• A review of energy audits - fact or fiction
• A new look at the hidden competition: maintenance
• A realistic assessment of M&V's strengths and weaknesses and its real role
• A strategy for making the business case for energy efficiency
• An eye opening look at new opportunities
  

Dates and Times

The following offering(s) of the Pitfalls & Profits in Performance Contracting Online Seminar are currently scheduled. The program consists of four two-hour teleconferencing sessions, for a total of 8 hours of instruction.

Beginning on November 8, with session dates and times as follows:

Seminar Agenda

The Pitfalls & Profits in Performance Contracting Online Seminar will be presented in the following four two-hour teleconferencing modules:

Your Realtime Program Instructor

SHIRLEY J. HANSEN, Ph.D., is widely recognized both nationally and internationally for her expertise in all phases of performance contracting. She has consulted for performance contracting companies, governments, and multi-lateral development banks, and has trained hundreds of professionals, including both end users and ESCO personnel, to use this financing mechanism effectively. Active in the U.S. and abroad, she has conducted workshops, developed manuals, and offered consultation in over 30 countries in energy performance contracting, marketing analysis, and business plan development. Dr. Hansen chairs the Board of Directors of the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol, Inc., is a member of the Advisory Board and the Hall of Fame of the Association of Energy Engineers, and the Advisory Board of Energy & Environmental Management magazine. She has authored and co-authored several books, including Performance Contracting: Expanding Horizons and Manual for Intelligent Energy Services.

Course Materials and Advance Preparations

The seminar fee covers registration for all four two-hour program modules, seminar workbook (downloadable PDF format), course certificate, and teleconferencing services, including domestic phone charges. (International calls will have non-tollfree access.) Payment in full must be received prior to the start date of the seminar.

You will receive instructions, personal support, and a chance to test your teleconferencing connection in advance of the first session.

Enrollment in this realtime online seminar will be limited to 40 participants to ensure that each student has ample opportunity for interaction with instructors and other participants.