This unique “Electrify” marketplace will make it easy to increase homeowner knowledge, identify a participating area contractor and access new financial incentives and rebates — all to help greatly reduce utility costs and ongoing household energy spending.
Electrification
Importance and impact of electrifying homes and businesses and how it relates to Asheville and Buncombe clean energy goals
Electrical Technologies & Energy Efficiency Services
Key technologies and services available to achieve electrification goals, demonstrate cost savings, and carbon avoidance
Inflation Reduction Act
Make resources available on related incentives available through IRA and how to access them
Continuing Education
Provide updates on new technologies, incentives, and opportunities
LGE Marketplace Features:
Education resource library
Searchable/filterable solution listings
Customer Portal
Customer accounts/onboarding survey
View/manage inquiries
In-app messaging with solution provider in context of a specific inquiry
Contractor Portal
Manage profile, listing of products and services
View/manage inquiries, including in-app messaging with customers
Secure payment solution capable of ACH and credit card transactions
Group Purchase Feature
Add/manage campaigns — specific service from a specific contractor, and will have a required number of participants
Reviews
Automated double blind review process to ensure quality control and accountability
App Admin Portal to:
View/manage users (both customers and contractors)
View/manage general app settings/data, resources, list of all inquiries made through the application
For Contractors
- Encourage contractor community to continue onboarding technologies and services to marketplace platform that enable consumers to further electrify homes and businesses
- Offer continuing education opportunities for contractors
- Foster sense of community to encourage and embrace electrification ecosystem
For Consumers
- Engage with consumers on their electrification road map and next steps
- Encourage consumers to continue to engage with marketplace platform to adopt new electrification technologies and services
FOR YOUR Community
- Report data and analysis on community-wide investment, economic development, bill savings, carbon emissions reductions, and other relevant data
Let's Compare LGE with Other Marketplace Platforms:
Angi / HomeAdvisor / Etc.
- Cost to firms for each lead generated
- Charges membership fees
- Self-marketing with no administrative support
- No local communications to explain heat pumps and incentives
- No options from NC Clean Energy Fund
available for participating firms - Government public awareness support not involved
- Local focus exclusively via Electrify Asheville-Buncombe
- Lead generation at no cost
- Membership at no cost
- Power of local government support and communications
- Direct cultivation of “Electrify” early adopters
- Public awareness driven by earned media
- Customized, unique financing options via NC Clean Energy Fund
- Program manager from NCEF dedicated to support contractors
- Assistance to homeowners to navigate through IRA incentives
- Onboarding assistance/facilitation
- Platform fee charged only for contracted, fully paid systems purchased
