Your idea submission should help advance New York State’s REV goals by addressing an unmet need, offering a superior solution to those currently in use, and/or enabling utilities to offer a significantly better value to electricity customers. This can be in the form of an innovative business or market model coupled with a product, service, or technology.
The REV Connect team evaluates submissions through steps 1 and 2 of our process before bringing qualified ideas to utilities. While REV Connect offers an initial screen using these criteria, the ultimate decision on whether to proceed with a partnership lies with utilities and submitters.
Information and sources to support a better understanding of REV and individual utility innovation interests and activities can be found on REV Connect’s pages for REV briefings, innovation opportunities, and utility profiles.
The submission must meet certain threshold requirements to receive an interview from a REV Connect team member.
Submissions must:
If the submission does not meet these minimum requirements, we’ll send you an email to the contact provided with a brief explanation and links to relevant information.
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The REV Connect team will use the following criteria to evaluate and categorize submitted ideas. REV Connect will consider both information provided in the online submission form as well as additional information provided during the qualify consultation. Submitters should develop their ideas and materials to clearly articulate how their idea meets or exceeds these criteria.
REV Connect will summarize its assessments in weekly reports to individual utilities and the NY state team. In these reports, submissions will be categorized based on the extent to which information provided in the submission form and/or qualify consultation address criteria for facilitation, as follows:
Criteria for Facilitation
The REV Connect teams evaluate ideas based on five criteria categories. While REV Connect offers an initial screen using these criteria, the ultimate decision for whether or not to proceed with a partnership lies with utilities and submitters.
For more information about criteria for facilitation and how assessments are made, please see our Criteria Assessment Guide.
Qualify Consultation
For more information on the questions we will be asking in the qualify consultation, which are used to assess the criteria, please see our Qualify Consultation Guide.