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EVER Welcome

Welcome to the Energy Vanguard Energy Ratings (EVER) homepage. We are a RESNET accredited Home Energy Rating Provider with certified raters in several states in the Southeast. If you've successfully completed a rater training course and are looking for a provider, please contact us and we'll send you the EVER application packet. These documents explain EVER's policies and procedures, including all the steps you need to take to get certified.

The states we operate in are:

 Alabama  North Carolina
 Georgia  South Carolina
 Kentucky  Tennessee
 Louisiana  Texas
 Mississippi  Virginia

If you're not in one of these states but want EVER to be your provider anyway, please contact us to discuss the situation. We can easily add other states.

If you're interested in becoming a certified home energy rater but have not gone through a rater training program yet, download the document "What and How of Becoming a Rater" from the RESNET home page and then register for a class with a RESNET accredited training provider. If you're in the Southeast, we recommend the Southface Energy Institute, where Energy Vanguard's president, Allison Bailes, teaches the course with Southface Director of Technical Services Mike Barcik.

With all the emphasis on weatherization and energy efficiency at the national level now, especially with the Home Star program on the way, it's a great time to be in the home energy rating industry!

 

Top 10 Reasons to Choose EVER as Your Provider


10.  We’re a small business and can help you with business planning, marketing strategies, and record keeping for your small business.
9.    Energy Vanguard is headed by a certified HERS trainer with a PhD in physics.
8.    We’ve inspected, rated, and improved many houses, in both new construction and existing homes.
7.    Allison Bailes, Energy Vanguard’s president, has built a high performance home out of structural insulated panels.
6.    We’ve got connections all over the Southeast and beyond.
5.    We’ve seen many of the novel situations you may have questions about.
4.    We’ll respond to your calls and emails within 24 hours.
3.    You’ll get your rating files approved within three business days, max.
2.    You’ll be a certified rater in six weeks or less.*
1.    We’ll do our best to help you succeed as a home energy rater.

 

*This will depend on timely responses from you, however. The probationary rater phase includes a lot of back and forth as we check and you correct your probationary ratings. It also includes scheduling the probationary field test, which could be a hangup, but if you want to be up and running quickly, we'll work with you and get it done quickly.