Motifmotion

Customer Education Video Case Study

Nine animated modules walk a Baltimore Gas and Electric customer through every phase of changing a gas or electric meter or service: what triggers the request, what it costs, and what happens on-site. Built for homeowners who have never been through the process, not for BGE crews. One module is a standalone safety message about the risk of building over BGE equipment.

Isometric homeowners approaching a house with a full remodel, increase service, and add new appliance checklist, from an animated instructional series for Baltimore Gas and Electric

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Case Study

Baltimore Gas and Electric – Residential modification and relocation

Any BGE customer whose project touches an existing gas or electric meter or service, a remodel, an added appliance, a detached structure, has to file a formal modification and relocation request. Most have never done it before and do not know what it costs or how long it takes.

Motifmotion built a nine-module instructional series that walks a homeowner through the whole path: the kinds of projects that trigger a request, what BGE, the homeowner and the contractor each have to do, and the five phases from initiation to restoration, cost and timeline included. One module is a standalone safety message about the real cost of building over BGE equipment. It is customer education, the same job our PECO customer education case study does for a different utility.

ClientBaltimore Gas and Electric Company
TypeCustomer Instructional Series
Amount9 modules, ~9 minutes combined
Style2D Animation, Isometric, On-screen UI
Isometric house with remodel, increase service and add-appliance icons, from a BGE instructional video

Types of Projects

Utility crew in hardhats and vests digging underground service insert points along a residential street

Construction Phase

Standalone safety message on the risk of building over BGE equipment, from the BGE instructional series

Safety Message

Three triggers, one entry point

The series opens by sorting every reason a customer ends up here into three triggers, so the first module tells them in under ninety seconds whether they are in the right place before it explains anything else.

  • A remodel, rehab or reconditioning project
  • Temporary service for construction
  • Adding a structure that needs its own service
Three kinds of projects that trigger a BGE service request: remodel, temporary construction service, and adding structure

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Who does what, made visible

A modification and relocation request runs through three parties: the homeowner, their contractor and BGE. The series keeps them visually distinct throughout, so a customer always knows whose step they are watching, and shows charges on screen the moment they are mentioned instead of describing them abstractly.

  • The homeowner's role, separated from the contractor's
  • What BGE handles, separated from both
  • Costs shown on screen as they are introduced, not left to a call
A contractor and a BGE representative reviewing a homeowner's project, from an animated instructional video

Five phases, five modules, one system

Initiation, design, scheduling, construction and restoration are five separate modules built on one visual system, so a customer can watch only the phase they are in without losing the thread, or the full series can play as one eight-and-a-half-minute piece. The safety message is cut from the restoration module and shipped separately, because it is the one thing BGE wanted every customer to see whether or not they watched anything else.

  • Initiation: scope, utility locates, the application
  • Design: the site visit and the signed agreement
  • Scheduling: week-of dates and crew arrival
  • Construction: the underground installation itself
  • Restoration: why building over BGE equipment carries real consequences
A five-phase roadmap: Initiation, Design, Scheduling, Construction and Connecting/Restoration, from the BGE instructional series

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Barbara Lasic
Barbara LasicDirector of Partnerships

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