Direct install programs
Direct install measures available
Proven track record
How it works
Field team members serve as trusted energy coaches, providing assessments, delivering energy-saving measures directly to homes and businesses, and offering education on behavioral savings and next-step opportunities. Our turnkey model manages the entire customer journey – through outreach and eligibility screening, assessment, installation, and incentive processing. This is all fully supported by a robust trade ally network, program-ready inventory, and inbuilt QA/QC processes.
The benefits of direct install
Direct install programs remove cost, complexity, and time barriers for customers – delivering affordability benefits – while helping utilities achieve their near-term savings, participation, and equity goals. This coordinated, scalable approach covers customer engagement, on-site assessment, immediate installation, and program delivery all in one.
Utilities can meet targets with little risk
By making energy-saving measures more accessible to homes and businesses, programs support utility goals in fast savings acquisition, equitable access, portfolio balance, and cost-effectiveness.
Energy savings are immediate and assured
By eliminating gaps between audit, approval, and installation, programs move faster and deliver measurable results sooner. In most cases, services are completed during a single site visit, and installed measures start saving customers energy from day one.
Barriers to participation are removed
Reducing or removing upfront costs, paperwork, and contractor coordination means less friction for customers. This drives greater participation among small businesses, multifamily property owners, and homeowners. Direct install programs are especially well-suited to income‑qualified customers, who are often most affected by financial and access barriers under traditional models.
Programs can be adapted and scaled
Utilities can expand or refine offerings across geographies, customer types, and as market needs and policies evolve. Information collected during an installation visit can be used to support future targeting for deeper retrofits, electrification, and demand-side management offerings.
Standardization means consistent confidence
As our operating procedures, technology, and quality controls are standardized and supported by centralized procurement, inventory management, and reporting, we can reduce variability across markets and give utilities greater confidence in cost control and performance consistency.
Direct install programs remove cost, complexity, and time barriers for customers – delivering affordability benefits – while helping utilities achieve their near-term savings, participation, and equity goals. This coordinated, scalable approach covers customer engagement, on-site assessment, immediate installation, and program delivery all in one.
Utilities can meet targets with little risk
By making energy-saving measures more accessible to homes and businesses, programs support utility goals in fast savings acquisition, equitable access, portfolio balance, and cost-effectiveness.
Energy savings are immediate and assured
By eliminating gaps between audit, approval, and installation, programs move faster and deliver measurable results sooner. In most cases, services are completed during a single site visit, and installed measures start saving customers energy from day one.
Barriers to participation are removed
Reducing or removing upfront costs, paperwork, and contractor coordination means less friction for customers. This drives greater participation among small businesses, multifamily property owners, and homeowners. Direct install programs are especially well-suited to income‑qualified customers, who are often most affected by financial and access barriers under traditional models.
Programs can be adapted and scaled
Utilities can expand or refine offerings across geographies, customer types, and as market needs and policies evolve. Information collected during an installation visit can be used to support future targeting for deeper retrofits, electrification, and demand-side management offerings.
Standardization means consistent confidence
As our operating procedures, technology, and quality controls are standardized and supported by centralized procurement, inventory management, and reporting, we can reduce variability across markets and give utilities greater confidence in cost control and performance consistency.
The right measures for the right customers
Deep engineering expertise combined with access to over 100 direct install measures give us the scalability and flexibility to effectively serve every customer segment.
Small and mid-sized businesses have access to a wide range of measures, like weather stripping, refrigerated case lighting and controls – quickly installed without disrupting operations. Further business-specific upgrades include door gaskets, lighting controls, exit signs, and many more. This model can also support agricultural customers, where limited downtime, tight margins, and energy‑intensive systems can be a blocker to participation.
Often paired with an energy assessment and on-site education, homeowners receive measures like water-saving devices, insulation, smart thermostats, and advanced power strips that prioritize simplicity and savings that start right away. Because measures are installed on behalf of the homeowner, utilities gain confidence that savings are delivered and verified.
Direct install programs are well-suited to multifamily housing, as they allow utilities to address tenant-controlled and owner-controlled systems at once. Programs can coordinate with property managers to streamline access and maximize in-unit participation, installing no-cost measures in homes, while also identifying deeper retrofit opportunities in common areas.
Why choose CLEAResult?
With decades of experience designing and delivering energy efficiency programs, we bring the infrastructure, field and engineering expertise, award-winning outreach and operational discipline needed to deliver a customer-first direct install program reliably and at scale. The result: Dependable savings and a positive, lasting engagement with both businesses and households.
