Lindsay Audin
(CEM, CEP, LEED AP)
President, Energywiz, Inc.

Experience

Audin’s 30+ years of energy industry experience encompasses perspectives as a consultant, customer, and energy supplier. He has shown many large energy clients, trade groups, other consultants, and marketers how to maximize their opportunities in retail and wholesale energy markets.

As consultant to several large suppliers, he has an in-depth knowledge of the energy services industry. When representing large energy users, he has used that understanding to secure for them better pricing and options.

While energy manager for Columbia University (1988-1996), he reduced the University’s energy bills by more than $3 million a year through a combination of energy efficiency and aggressive procurement of fuels and electricity. In 1992, he founded the New York Energy Buyers Forum, a non-profit organization of large energy users working together for lower energy rates.

For thirteen years prior to Columbia, he served New York area consulting and manufacturing firms in a variety of energy-related positions, including as a department head and business partner.

Full resume is available by request to Energywiz@aol.com.

Recognition and Awards

Audin has been named Energy Manager of the Year four times: in 1993, by the Association of Energy Engineers (which named him International Energy Manager of the Year); by the New York Association of Energy Engineers in 1992, the Association of Professional Energy Managers in 1994, and by Energy User News in 1991.

His work at Columbia University won (in 1994) the EPA Green Lights Achievement Award for Public Education and (in 1996) The EPA University Partner of the Year award. His work at Columbia also won several environmental and lighting awards.

In 1996, he was inducted into the Energy Manager’s Hall of Fame by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) – the highest level of recognition in this field. Audin’s work has been featured in videos, case studies, and many publications.

Audin has held professional certifications in energy management (CEM), energy procurement (CEP), lighting (CLEP) and is an Accredited Professional in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program (LEED AP).

Well known in the professional energy community, Audin has served on many standards and certifications boards, including those related to lighting and energy procurement. He has also served on editorial boards for several energy-related publications.
 

Publications and Presentations

Audin's quarterly column on energy issues appeared in Architectural Record (1991-2004) and continue to appear monthly (since 2001) in Engineered Systems magazine. He has been a contributing editor at Building Operations Management magazine since 2003.

He has made over 200 presentations at technical and professional conferences in the US and overseas and had many papers published in both magazines and trade journals such as Energy Engineering and Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment. Audin has taught over 100 seminars on energy issues, both in person and online, to trade organizations, government agencies, private firms, and the public. Thousands of people have taken his classes on cutting energy use and costs.
 

Lindsay Audin