Professionals

Enhancing the energy landscape in Hawaii is both an enormous challenge and responsibility. Hawaii Energy offers a number of professional development opportunities for business and energy professionals across various industries in an effort to advance the adoption of energy conservation and efficiency in Hawaii. Supported by ratepayer funding, these courses are heavily subsidized or tuition-free for qualified applicants.


2018 IECC Residential and Commercial – Building Energy Code Training

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 11:30 AM – 1 PM

The state and counties continue to follow the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code with amendments. Join these two training sessions to refresh your energy code knowledge. The first session will cover low-rise residential requirements including town homes and three-story multifamily buildings. The second session will cover commercial and high-rise residential requirements.

Residential Tuesday, May 13, 2025 11:30 AM – 1 PM

  • Identify applicable requirements in the 2018 IECC
  • Determine applicability and requirements for the Tropical-Zone energy code compliance option
  • Determine compliance with the prescriptive requirements for building envelope and systems
  • Use energy code checklists to review designs for compliance

Commercial Tuesday, May 20, 2025 11:30 AM – 1 PM

  • Identify applicable requirements in the 2018 IECC
  • Choose an appropriate compliance path
  • Determine compliance with the prescriptive requirements for building envelope, lighting and HVAC
  • Use energy code checklists to review designs for compliance

Training conducted by Consultant Erik Kolderup for the Hawaii State Energy Office and Hawaii Energy.

Questions? Contact Howard Wiig at howard.c.wiig@hawaii.gov

Hosted in Hawaii Energy’s Training Room at 45 N. King St., Suite 500, Honolulu, HI. Registration for training and webinar will be available soon. 


Want to sell more energy projects? Catch this award-winning sales training, courtesy of Hawaii Energy!

Are you struggling to show the real value of your best energy solutions, overcome objections, and win more approvals? Given today’s economic climate, you’re not alone. No worries, Hawaii Energy has your back!

Selling Energy’s Learning to S.E.E.: Sell Efficiency Effectively™ is your one-day fast track to mastering skills and strategies that top performers use to sell their energy solutions with confidence. Choose your focus – Residential or Non-Residential – and get ready to reframe benefits, build rapport, and close more projects faster.

And the best part? Thanks to Hawaii Energy, this $500 one-day training is completely FREE… PLUS it includes a full year’s access to bonus resources worth over $2,600!


Residential Edition: In-person or via Simulcast on May 21st or June 17th

When: May 21 OR June 17 | 9am – 4 pm
Where: In Person at the Hawaii Energy Training Room or online
In-person training includes coffee, complimentary lunch/beverage and convenient validated parking at 888 Nuuanu Ave
Cost: FREE (Value: $500)

  • Get homeowners genuinely excited about efficiency upgrades.
  • Master the 12 keys to successful in-home selling.
  • Reframe your upgrade as a path to attractive after-tax returns and increased home value.
  • Build trust and preemptively address likely objections
  • Persuade like a pro with the help of storytelling and magnetic messaging.
  • Grow your business faster with cross-selling, up-serving, referrals, and testimonials.
  • And more!

May 21, 2025: Residential Registration

June 17, 2025: Residential Registration



Non-Residential Edition: In-person or via Simulcast on May 23rd or June 20th

When: May 23 OR June 20 | 9am-4pm
Where: In Person at the Hawaii Energy Training Room or Online
In-person training includes coffee, complimentary lunch/beverage and convenient validated parking at 888 Nuuanu Ave
Cost: FREE (Value: $500)

  • Highlight benefits far beyond utility savings and rebates.
  • Prove non-utility-cost financial and non-financial benefits that your prospect will value.
  • Find ideal prospects for your offerings as well as the best ways to approach them.
  • Capture attention with catchy elevator pitches, email subject lines, and more.
  • Create a 1-page narrative proposal to help your internal champion secure approvals.
  • Use a 1-page financial analysis that gets your prospect’s capital budgeting folks on board.
  • Escape the clutches of simple payback period and three-bids syndrome.
  • Confidently handle 65+ objections with field-proven answers that will help you close.
  • Build your own Success Story Archive to give your prospects the confidence to proceed.
  • Learn 20+ places to insert compelling video elements into your sales process.
  • And more!

May 23, 2025: Non-Residential Registration

June 20, 2025: Non-Residential Registration, Coming Soon!


EXCLUSIVE BONUSES FOR ATTENDEES ($2,100+ Value)


You’ll also get access to all these powerful tools and coaching resources:

Selling in 6™: Online/on-demand access to 100+ six-minute lessons for deeper dives into elevator pitches, three-sentence solicitations, overcoming 65+ objections, and more.

Segment Guides™: Jargon, yardsticks, and documented non-utility-cost financial and non-financial benefits of energy measures for each of 24 different market segments.

Live Webinars & Mastermind Calls: Invitations to Selling in 6 Live! ™, a recurring 7-part webinar series wherein Mark presents collections of Selling in 6 lessons and fields audience questions PLUS monthly two-hour Mastermind Group Coaching Calls open to all Selling Energy graduates worldwide.

Live/Virtual Coaching with Mark Jewell: Use Mark’s automated scheduling widget to book 30-minute one-on-one or small-group coaching calls via Zoom so he can help you apply Selling Energy’s insights to real customers and projects.

About Mark Jewell
Mark is an award-winning sales coach and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who has trained 21,000+ energy professionals. His company, Selling Energy appeared on Selling Power magazine’s list of Top 20 Sales Training Companies. Over the last 30 years, Mark has influenced energy decisions in over 3 billion square feet of real estate. With his decades of entrepreneurial and energy industry expertise, Mark will give you field-proven insights on how you can best grow your business.

Don’t Miss This Opportunity

Mark hasn’t trained in Hawaii since 2016. This is your chance to transform your sales approach, boost your closing rate, and shorten your average sales cycle, all at absolutely no cost thanks to Hawaii Energy’s sponsorship.

Register now. Seats are limited for in-person sessions.


For training-related questions, please email Karen Shishido at karen.shishido@leidos.com or call 808-848-8535.