REA Migration to the NY Home Energy Portal Timeline

To: REA Contractors
Regarding Programs: REA Program
Summary: REA Migration to the NY Home Energy Portal Timeline
Contact: [email protected]

In Spring 2023 the Residential Energy Assessment Programs will be migrating from the current project portal (Uplight) to a new portal called the NY Home Energy Portal (NYHEP). The current Residential Energy Assessment Excel tool will be retired and a new energy assessment modeling tool will be available directly within NYHEP.

Below is an estimated timeline of the transition specific to the Residential Energy Assessment Program, which is based on the best information we currently have available. As some of these factors are outside of NYSERDA’s control, this timeline is subject to change.

February 2023– NYSERDA will be working with the portal contractor to finalize the design and functionality of the portal and continue internal testing.

March 2023 – Select contractor testing of the new REA workflow.

Thursday, April 27 – Final day to submit any open REA projects to Uplight. Any open projects that have not been submitted will need to be remodeled and submitted through NYHEP.

Week of May 8 – NYHEP opens. Contractors will be able to model and submit REA projects.

Any REA projects that were not completed or on hold as of the April 27 cutoff will not be migrated over to the NYHEP. If a contractor would like to complete one of those open or on hold projects, they will be required to remodel the project and submit for completion in NYHEP.

Weekly invoices will be run as usual.

Uplight projects that had a status of “completed” or “canceled” will be migrated over to the NYHEP in the future and contractors will have access to those projects if needed.