Power
Energy auditors and power naturally go hand-in-hand. Since it's your job to help companies or homeowners conserve power and be green, what you say goes. If you conduct the right tests, check all the costs and potential savings, and find a new indoor environmental control system that makes sense to your employer, they'll listen. That's power. Just don't let it go to your head.
Not just anyone can go set up their tent at a stranger's house and have it benefit everyone involved. But you can. Okay, it's not exactly a tent, but energy auditors commonly use a door-blower test to check for leaks in people's homes.
Finding leaks for a homeowner and helping them upgrade their insulation can make a big difference in how much electricity they use every month. Making someone's home more energy-efficient and saving them a chunk of change in the process is powerful.
Energy auditors who work for utility companies, in particular, often help homeowners get government grants, reimbursements, or tax breaks to make their homes more energy efficient by replacing old heating and air conditioning units, adding insulation, or getting new energy efficient windows to say nothing of solar panels.
Why would a utility company help customers buy less electricity? Because conserving our shared resources is in everyone's best interest, of course, and you can help make that happen.
You're helping people stay comfortable, save money, keep the environment cleaner, and save our natural resources. Saving power is very...well, powerful. Especially since you're benefitting the greater good. Your name should probably be up in lights somewhere. Using energy efficient bulbs in solar-powered fixtures, of course.