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Energy Auditors
Conduct energy audits of buildings, building systems, or process systems. May also conduct investment grade audits of buildings or systems.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Identify and prioritize energy-saving measures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Prepare audit reports containing energy analysis results or recommendations for energy cost savings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Identify any health or safety issues related to planned weatherization projects.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Identify opportunities to improve the operation, maintenance, or energy efficiency of building or process systems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Calculate potential for energy savings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Inspect or evaluate building envelopes, mechanical systems, electrical systems, or process systems to determine the energy consumption of each system.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Analyze technical feasibility of energy-saving measures, using knowledge of engineering, energy production, energy use, construction, maintenance, system operation, or process systems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Examine commercial sites to determine the feasibility of installing equipment that allows building management systems to reduce electricity consumption during peak demand periods.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Recommend energy-efficient technologies or alternate energy sources.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Collect and analyze field data related to energy usage.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss5%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
43%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 37% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 36% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.