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NY Home Energy Portal: Appliance Vendors User Guide
This page contains materials to support the NY Home Energy Portal, which is used by Appliance Vendors to submit Appliance Invoice Submissions to NYSERDA.
To log into the NY Home Energy Portal, follow this link: NY Home Energy Portal .
New Term | Existing Term (Or Definition if N/A) |
---|---|
Appliance Project Type Workflow or Appliance Enrollment | Appliance Order/Sub-Workflow |
Applicant | Participant |
Approved Income Tier: Tier 1 (Low-Income) | Tier 1 (EmPower NY) |
Approved Income Tier: Tier 3 (Moderate-Income) | Tier 2 (Assisted Home Performance) |
Direct Install (Similar to an ER but requires a comprehensive assessment) | EmPower New York - Electric Reduction |
Enrollment | Project |
Enrollment Number | Project ID |
Existing Conditions/Measures (Tabs in the NY HEP) | EmPCalc/Res Audit Tool |
Full Comprehensive | Empower New York - Home Peroformance |
Muni Install | DEFINITION: Full Comprehensive w/o Electric Measures |
Process (button in the NY HEP) | Submit (button in Uplight) |
Processor Trade Ally | Community Hub |
Save (button in the NY HEP) | DEFINITION: Saves Data Entry w/o Processing to the Next Step |
Trade Ally | Participating Contractor/Vendor |
Workflow Step | Task/Project Stage |
The instructions below provides guidances on how to access the New York Home Energy Portal (NYHEP) and resetting your account password.
Logging Into NYHEP
Access the NYHEP and type in your Username and Password. When finished, click the Sign In button to log in.
Forgot Password
If the contractor forget their password, click the Forgot Password? link on the login page. Type in the User ID then click the Reset It button, users will then receive an email notification with a link and instructions to reset the password.
The My Profile tab can be accessed under the Security tab on the top right of your New York Home Energy Portal (NYHEP).
My Information
This tab allows contractors to update the following:
- Name
- Email Address
- Phone number
Email Subscription
Contractors can subscribe and un-subscribe to an email by clicking on the check box, it will automatically activate the subscribtion.
Save Changes
Click the Save button to save any changes/updates made under your profile.
The Change Password tab can be accessed under the Security tab on the top right of your New York Home Energy Portal (NYHEP).
Change Password
This tab allows contractors to update their password. Enter in your previous password followed by the new password. When ready, click Change Password.
The instructions below provides guidances on how to access the online help page for additional support.
Help Icon
The Help Icon can be access on the top right side of most tabs that you are in.
Online Help
Use the expandable tabs from the left hand page tree to locate the additional guidance you are looking for.
Search
The Search option can be used to search for specific words or phrases.
The instruction below provides guidance on how to add notes within Enrollments and Customer Records.
Notes added to an enrollment can be accessed during any other workflow step for the same enrollment and are accessible to anyone with access to the specific enrollment.
To add a new note, access the Note tab and click the New Note button. A new Note dialog will open.
Notes can be added to any Record or Enrollment in the NY HEP where a Note tab is present.
Fill in the Notes field.
The Note Date and Note Time fields will automatically populate with the current date and time. Users can change these fields if needed. The system will still document the actual date and time the note was created as well.
The Who can view this note? field will default to Users with access to this enrollment.
For Contractors, it does not matter what option is selected for this field as anyone with access to the enrollment will also have access to the workflow step. It is best to leave this field alone.
If the This is an Interaction checkbox is checked, a drop-down will appear allowing Contractors to add this note to one of the available reports.
Click Save to save the new Note.
Once a note is saved, Contractors cannot edit or delete it. Be sure to review the note carefully before clicking save.
The instruction below provides guidances on how to upload document(s) within an enrollment. A red exclamation mark will be displayed under the Required column indicating the document type being a Required Document.
Multiple documents can be uploaded at the same time:
PC Users: CTRL + Click
Mac Users: Command + Click
To upload a Document, access the enrollment's Documents tab during any step.
Click the New button for the Document dialog will open.
Click Browse to select a file to upload.
Multiple documents can be uploaded at the same time.
After the file is uploaded for the Document Type, click Save and then click Close to upload the file and close the dialog.
After you’ve selected a file, you can remove it by clicking the x Remove button.
This is the Contractors last opportunity to click Remove to not upload a specific document. Once Save is clicked, the document becomes a public record and it cannot be edited, deleted, or otherwise overwritten. If the wrong document is uploaded, Contractors will need to upload the correct document and use the Comments fields to let both CLEAResult and NYSERDA know which is the correct document to review.
To download and view an uploaded document, click the Document Name Hyperlink.
The instruction below provides guidances on how to access and use the To Do List.
The instruction below provides guidances on how to access enrollments from the To Do List.
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