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Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar
Design, develop, or evaluate energy-related projects or programs to reduce energy costs or improve energy efficiency during the designing, building, or remodeling stages of construction. May specialize in electrical systems; heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems; green buildings; lighting; air quality; or energy procurement.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Identify and recommend energy savings strategies to achieve more energy-efficient operation.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Collect data for energy conservation analyses, using jobsite observation, field inspections, or sub-metering.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Monitor and analyze energy consumption.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Prepare energy-related project reports or related documentation.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Monitor energy related design or construction issues, such as energy engineering, energy management, or sustainable design.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Conduct energy audits to evaluate energy use and to identify conservation and cost reduction measures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Analyze, interpret, or create graphical representations of energy data, using engineering software.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Train personnel or clients on topics such as energy management.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Advise clients or colleagues on topics such as climate control systems, energy modeling, data logging, sustainable design, or energy auditing.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Perform energy modeling, measurement, verification, commissioning, or retro-commissioning.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 loss7%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
55%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 71% 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
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.