Program designer
See what your budget builds around your site.
Pick an area, choose the home upgrades your data center pays for and set what a kilowatt of demand reduction is worth to you. The designer shows the homes your budget funds and what each household still pays.
Efficiency upgrades are modeled here. Adding batteries, solar or outage resilience? Discuss your site.
- Where
- The community and the homes that can take part.
- What it funds
- The upgrades and the budget.
- What it is worth
- Your price for each kilowatt of demand reduction.
Select an area to calculate a scenario.
1. Area and home
Start with one representative home. County data informs the defaults; this is not a forecast of the county housing mix.
Optional. Excludes administration and verification costs.
Compare matched scenarios
Each method keeps its rebate, cost, coverage and budget reach together. Differences are not confidence bounds. No method is selected for you.
Choose a state and county to see the results.
Model limits and sources
Housing and weather defaults use Census ACS, NOAA/NCEI, NREL and EIA data. County weather is mapped to a representative station. Home-age insulation bands are editable heuristics, not local code history or observations of a home.
Degree-day uses a fixed 65°F balance point. Modified bin uses a continuous sensible heat balance with assumed average appliance, occupant, water-heater and solar gains. It assumes no extra window ventilation. Neither model includes humidity, thermal storage, ducts or climate-specific equipment performance curves; these are uncalibrated planning estimates.
Insulation reduces thermal load without changing the equipment rating. Negative cooling effects in mild weather remain in the model. Gas savings are excluded; no gas-to-electric upgrade is funded.
Cost and credit-term defaults are planning assumptions. Saved scenarios and exports include inputs, assumptions, both payment and operational results, weather, coverage and model version. They are not published programs or funding commitments.
Tools behind your program
Check the details before you commit.
After you publish
From the first application to the contractor's payment.
You
Design and publish
Pick a service area anywhere in the country, a savings methodology (deemed tables, degree-day, or modified-bin), the measures you want to fund, and a budget. Every number is computed live as you choose.
Lock the design and open enrollment. Residents in your service area get a public application page; you get a live dashboard of every application, offer, and payment as it moves.
Residents
Enroll and audit
A resident signs up with their address. Eligibility is checked against the program's service area before anything else happens.
The resident uploads a few phone photos. An AI inspection reviews them against the program's checklist: insulation depth, equipment age and type, home characteristics.
The engine values each eligible upgrade under your program's methodology and shows the resident a concrete offer: what's approved, estimated savings, and approximately what rebate their contractor would be paid.
Work is done by an approved contractor the resident chooses. The rebate is paid directly to that contractor once work is verified, never to the resident.
Contractors + engine
Deliver and settle
The contractor submits detailed pre-work documentation: measurements, existing equipment, and the exact installation specifics the visual audit estimated.
Anything photos can't determine deterministically is resolved by the program administrator, so every rebate is settled on verified inputs, not guesses.
The first half of the rebate is staged to the contractor and the work starts, so contractors aren't floating the program's cost.
The contractor submits after-photos and completed-work details. The engine re-values the job as built and clears the contractor's final payment.