Efficiency, Savings, and Growth for Every Business
We combine direct install, rebates, and turnkey electrification to deliver quick savings and set the stage for long-term carbon reduction.
Key Features:
- Integrated Delivery Model: On-the-spot upgrades plus audits, incentives, and contractor referrals drive savings with minimal disruption.
- Equity-First Approach: Tailored outreach and delivery are designed to connect with rural and historically underserved business communities.
1:1 and peer cohort-based energy management training helps SMBs find savings, engage staff, and embed efficiency into daily operations.
Key Features:
- Behavior + Operations: Blends operational improvements with high-touch employee engagement for persistent, measurable results.
- Flexible for SMBs: Program models adapted to fit varying staff capacity, facility types, and business priorities.
Personalized reports with disaggregated usage insights, peer comparisons, seasonal trends, and actionable tips to drive cost-saving habits.
Key Features:
- Data-Driven Engagement: Reports turn usage data into clear, relevant recommendations so businesses can act immediately.
- Pathway to Programs: Built-in CTAs link users to rebate applications, Smart Commerce marketplaces, and deeper program enrollment.
Branded online store connects businesses with curated products, instant savings, program pre-enrollment, and install services to drive savings and impact.
Key Features:
- Frictionless Buying: Mobile marketplace with instant eligibility checks, point-of-purchase rebates and discounts, secure checkout, industry-leading fulfillment, and full support—so SMBs can shop less and save more.
- Connected Program Access: Purchases link to DR pre-enrollment, install scheduling, and tailored recommendations for greater impact.
Full-service education, planning, and infrastructure support for EV charger installations at SMB facilities to balance grid reliability and program efficiency.
Key Features:
- Turnkey Service: We offer EVSE education, site assessment, permitting, utility coordination, charger purchase, and contractor management.
- Future-Ready Design: The program ensures infrastructure can support future charging demand and supports pre-enrollment in managed charging or V2G/X.
Custom-assembled kits with easy-to-install products for SMB customers are ideal for reaching rural and hard-to-reach businesses.
Key Features:
- Tailored for Every Site: Configurations are matched to business type, size, and operational needs.
- Effortless Engagement: Semi-custom, custom, and subscription-ready ordering tool and step-by-step installation instructions make upgrades simple.
All SMB Program Solutions
- Audit/Assessment – Energy Efficiency
- Audit/Assessment – Virtual
- Audit/Assessment – Electrification Readiness
- Nexus Behavioral Reports
- Nexus Behavioral Customer Portal
- Nexus Behavioral Demand Response
- Building Electrification
- Building Electrification – Heat Pump Installation
- Decarbonization
- Direct Install
- Education – Contractor
- Kits
- Flexible Load Management – Direct Load Control
- Flexible Load Management – Pre-Enrolled Devices
- Flexible Load Management – BYOD
- Flexible Load Management – Installation
- Smart Commerce Marketplace
- Smart Commerce Express
- Smart Commerce Supply
- Trade Ally Supply
- Meter-Based Savings Programs
- Rebates – Custom
- Rebates – Midstream
- Rebates – Prescriptive
- Strategic Energy Management (SEM)
- Transportation Electrification – EV & EVSE Education
- Transportation Electrification – EVSE Make-Ready
- Transportation Electrification – Managed Charging
- Transportation Electrification – EVSE Marketplace
- Transportation Electrification – L2 EVSE Installation
SMB Program Delivery Benefits
Rapid, Measurable Savings: Capture quick wins and deeper retrofits in one integrated program.
Equity at Scale: Engage rural and underserved business owners.
Compliance Alignment: Support utility carbon reduction, demand flexibility, and efficiency targets.
Equitable Economic Impact: Deliver energy savings and cost reductions that strengthen local economies.
Policy-to-Performance: Turn state-level energy and climate goals into measurable SMB results.
Transparent Tracking: Monitor impact with available AMI-based reporting and verified savings data.
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