How can I become energy audit and scope and salary

There is a huge scope for PG in Energy Auditing (or Energy Engineering), however the chances for an initial boost to your career would be less, as most of the firms actively undertaking energy audits have not matured enough to pick people from campus placements. Once you have sufficient experience and if you build a good expertise in many sectors, you will be in very high demand.

I would better recommend such courses to people who are good in multiple disciplines like a combination of Mechanical, Electrical, or “Electronics and Electrical engg.” Having knowledge about only one of these from the initial days will pull you back from getting early expertise. However, there is nothing that can beat hardwork.

Except for one of my colleages who have completed PG in Energy Engineering with me, all others are either professors of have cracked PSU exams on the basis of their UG qualification.

Here are the options after PG in Energy Auditing:

• Work in Industry
• Work as core Energy Auditor (I did this)
• Advantages:
• Good experience
• Possibility to build great expertise in different sectors
• Will be in good demand after 2 years of experience
• Chances to move to industries as an Energy Manager for their factories/establishments (I did this)
• Disadvantages:
• Less possibility to develop expertise in individual equipment
• Excessive travelling (sometimes women may not be preffered due to strenous travelling)
• Physical stress during site visit
• Work as Energy Analyst/Manager
• Here you will be working with firms which have their own products.
• You may be required to manage/research on the operation of these products and make them operate effectively.
• Advantages:
• Possibility to develop expertise in individual equipment/components.
• Less travelling and physical stress.
• Diadvantages:
• Experience may not be as good as in core energy auditing, and the job may endup boring.
• Hence may not be in good demand unless there is a specific effort put in to develop expertise in various sectors. (It may require good hardwork and a bit of luck)
• Low chances to move to industries as an Energy Manager for their factories/establishments.
• Both the above options make you eligible to attend the exam for certification of energy auditors, after two years of experience. This certification not only shows your capability in energy auditing, but also it is required by law that such certificate holders should be appointed by a list of industries, known as “designated consumers”. This increases the chances for employment (however, after 2 years of GOOD experience, one is not expected to see shortage of job offers in this field)
• Work in Teaching/Education sector (I had taken this option for 1.5 years. It’s now very difficult to change from teaching to industry, so decide carefully) : Make sure that you are persuing PG from the department of your core engineering, if you have any plans to go into teaching field. If in a different department, it may not be possible for you to move into teaching. Mentioning this because energy engineering is a multi-discipline subject, and it is offered by different departments in colleges across India.
• Advantages:
• Low stress
• Regular life, less travelling
• Disadvatages:
• Almost constant pay-scale (you have tough competetion), unless you move into Govt. colleges as permenant staff.
• Lack industrial knowledge
• May not be able to implement or experience the meaning of what was learnt in PG

If you want to get into the industry, i suggest you to proactively try from the PG time to get an internship in a reputed industry in the field, and make them want you for the job after your studies. This is required as placements are poor.

Let me know if you need any more info