http://www.transitionmontpelier.org.uk/blog/2010/03/29/home-energy-auditing-training/ Transition Montpelier - our community's response to peak oil and climate change Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:43:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.transitionmontpelier.org.uk/blog/2010/03/29/home-energy-auditing-training/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Jane Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:27:49 +0000 http://www.transitionmontpelier.org.uk/blog/?p=650#comment-328 I think the main thing to come out of the training for me was an awareness that the whole home energy issue has so many variables feeding into it in terms of construction, appliance efficiency, individual habits etc that there is unlikely to be a ‘one size fits all’ answer to anything. The training was informative and well presented but has left me with a feeling that rather than put myself forward definitively as a ‘home energy auditor’ for my neighbourhood, I would rather use what I had learned as a basis for exploration with others, and I am thinking along the lines of something like a CRAG (Carbon reduction action group) where we let people know that we have done the training and offer them not only the option of a home visit with the check list that I believe a few people are now developing, but also something in the form of peer to peer help where there is an invitation to come and discuss and learn on a fortnightly/monthly basis. I would be keen to explore how to set up and run this sort of support group in a community and would like to have a neighbourhood meeting where people who have set up and run CRAGs or similar explain how it is done. I know there is a group in Redland and I remember SusWot saying they were thinking about an ‘energy buddies’ project. Would anyone else be interested in using this sort of format to bring what we learned on Monday into our neighbourhoods? If so, a meeting to explore this might be useful. I think the main thing to come out of the training for me was an awareness that the whole home energy issue has so many variables feeding into it in terms of construction, appliance efficiency, individual habits etc that there is unlikely to be a ‘one size fits all’ answer to anything. The training was informative and well presented but has left me with a feeling that rather than put myself forward definitively as a ‘home energy auditor’ for my neighbourhood, I would rather use what I had learned as a basis for exploration with others, and I am thinking along the lines of something like a CRAG (Carbon reduction action group) where we let people know that we have done the training and offer them not only the option of a home visit with the check list that I believe a few people are now developing, but also something in the form of peer to peer help where there is an invitation to come and discuss and learn on a fortnightly/monthly basis.
I would be keen to explore how to set up and run this sort of support group in a community and would like to have a neighbourhood meeting where people who have set up and run CRAGs or similar explain how it is done. I know there is a group in Redland and I remember SusWot saying they were thinking about an ‘energy buddies’ project. Would anyone else be interested in using this sort of format to bring what we learned on Monday into our neighbourhoods? If so, a meeting to explore this might be useful.

]]>