National Green Energy Network (NGEN) is an easy-to-use and secure online project management tool, making it the ideal choice for state or lender clean energy lending programs and others offering similar programs.

At its core, NGEN is a powerful tool with the ability to customize messages and branding to support the rapid scaling of Smart-E and Smart-E like green lending programs in your market. NGEN connects program staff directly with vetted contractors and community lenders on a common workflow platform.

Program Staff can:

• Vet, train, and approve contractors including tracking compliance agreements, insurance, licensing requirements and more
• Review each project to ensure documents and projects score of work meet program requirements
• Resolve lender, contractor, and homeowner issues quickly to keep projects moving forward
• Manage 3rd party inspection protocols
• Add custom loan, project and quality assurance questions
• Create and electronically sign custom project documents
• Schedule automated communications and announcements to lenders and contractors
• Send customer satisfaction surveys
• Special program campaign workflows available for 3rd party review (e.g. historical reviews or utility partners)
• Run interest rate buy down campaigns
• Safely and securely collect and store personal identification information for use in loan loss reserve programs and manage programs
• Invoice interest rate buy down campaigns

Contractors can:

• Apply to the program and manage their contact information
• Provide the scope of work for each project
• Finalize completion documentation via electronic signature
• Track payments made by lenders for each project

Lenders can:

• View project score of work and related documents
• Provide loan distribution information to contractors as payments are issued
• Upload monthly loan portfolio data including but not limited to application dates, FICO scores, debt-to-income information, loan origination and outstanding loan amounts