Home Energy Resilience Cooperative
Home Energy Resilience Cooperative (HERC) emerged as an effort to support the long-term resilience and rebuilding effort in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in 2024 and Buncombe County’s community-wide goal to reach 100% clean energy by 2042.
Home Energy Resilience Cooperatives are a series of mini group purchase campaigns, approximately 60 days each, in which Electrify Asheville-Buncombe works with local contractors to put packages together that make electrifying our homes more affordable and accessible.
Current Offerings
Following Hurricane Helene, Electrify Asheville-Buncombe conducted a survey and concluded that the top priority for homeowners now is to enhance and secure their homes against future power outages by utilizing solar energy and battery storage. As a result, we are pleased to introduce the following HERC packages.
Select a solution below to get started on your Home Resilience journey!
Solar + Battery
Generate your own clean energy, become more energy independent, and save money with Solar + Battery
Solar + Battery Storage
Electrify Asheville-Buncombe is partnering with great local contractors offering best-in-class solar energy and battery storage equipment at affordable prices. Take advantage of valuable incentives while still available.
Standalone Battery Storage
Power your essentials with a home battery
Standalone Battery Storage
Too much shade? HOA regulations? Don't want solar? No problem. With a new home battery system, you can power the essentials at your home during an outage without solar.
Solar Generators
Portable Solar Generators are the perfect solution to weather power outages, use when camping, traveling, and more
Portable Solar Generators
Electrify Asheville-Buncombe has negotiated a deep group purchase discount on vetted portable solar generators in two sizes to get you through an unexpected power outage. Perfect for homeowners, renters, camping, and more.
Solar + Storage
A home energy resilience dream team: solar and storage at your home provides the ultimate solution with clean energy at all times. Produce your own solar energy to use or store on site! Sign up below for an initial assessment and get connected to local participating contractors.
Battery Storage
Can't go solar on your property? A home battery can still give you the back-up power needed during an outage or blackout. Sign up below to get started!
Portable Solar Generator
Electrify Asheville-Buncombe partnered with Nature's Generator to provide group-discount pricing on this portable solar generator to provide quiet clean energy when and where you need it. Options include 1800 or 3600 watts of clean, renewable energy, ideal as a portable power station for home battery backup, RV trips, camping, or on-the-go. No initial assessment needed. Click through to learn more and purchase at a great discount.
About Us
Let's Go Electric is a platform that facilitates community electrification programs, i.e., Electrify Programs, which help make electrifying our homes and businesses more affordable and accessible to community residents. The Let's Go Electric platform offers a range of tools, features and educational programming that add capacity for communities to meet clean-energy and equity goals that are easily accessible, help remove previous barriers to obtaining and investing in clean energy — all at no expense to the community.
The firm works hand-in-hand to support local government and non-profit organization leaders to forge and customize their local clean energy initiatives. While the idea of electrifying our homes and businesses as a decarbonization strategy is not new, a turnkey platform and expertise to administer grassroots Electrify campaigns was not widely available. Meet the Let's Go Electric Team!
