What Differentiates Us

Most of us at AE not coming from this industry and doing things on a ‘common sense’ approach vs. ‘industry standard’ approach, we take great pride in being the ‘zebras with no stripes’ in how we deliver projects for our customers. We seek to set ourselves apart by :

• Always working directly with the end user as the ‘prime contractor.’ This means we typically avoid partnerships with other energy service companies (“ESCO’s”) and ultimately try to reduce layers of markup to you, our customer

• We largely serve one customer with one service (LED lighting). We seek to be the most proficient at what we do. You could say our goal is to become the ‘Southwest Airlines’ or LED lighting retrofits

• Our service is about dollars and cents for the customer – we offer solutions that create as much energy savings as possible relative to as low of a cost as possible. If you are a school and you want the ‘GMC Yukon’ of LED lighting that will work every time and have longevity, we are your people. If you are looking for someone to sell you the ‘Porshe Cayenne’ of lighting, you have come to the wrong place

• We control the supply chain – often by the time a school district buys LED lights it has been marked up 5-7x as it traveled through the traditional supply chain. We seek to import or cut out the ‘middle man’ and pass those cost savings onto our customers

• We are conservative – we seek to always ‘under promise and overdeliver’ as it relates to our representations. All of our business comes from referrals of happy customers.

• Because we control the supply chain we can typically start any project within 2-3 weeks of a purchase order