Resources

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The Massachusetts Building Electrification Ecosystem

Massachusetts is home to a rich and complex fabric of organizations supporting building electrification. We are honored to be part of this vibrant network. The lists below are not comprehensive – please let us know what we’ve missed.

  • Mass Save. Mass Save is funded by Massachusetts ratepayers and provides incentives and support to residents, businesses, and communities to make energy efficient upgrades by offering a wide range of services, rebates, incentives, trainings, and information. Mass Save is managed by a collaborative of Massachusetts’ electric and natural gas utilities. Residents and businesses in municipal light plant communities may not qualify for Mass Save services.
  • Clean Energy Lives Here. This resource for Massachusetts residents introduces clean energy technologies and outlines incentives, resources, and installers. The campaign is managed by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.
  • Energy Saver Home Loan Program. The ESHLP, offered by the Massachusetts Community Climate Bank, helps eligible Massachusetts homeowners cut their energy use and reduce or eliminate their reliance on fossil fuels. The ESHLP provides eligible homeowners with low interest rate, second mortgage loans, financing at the project’s star, free end-to-end support, identification and coordination of all available incentives, rebates and other credits.
  • Massachusetts Local Electrification Program Map. Your community may have a local electrification program with customized resources and support. Please refer to this map, co-created by the BEA and NEEP, for local programs in Massachusetts offering electrification support.  
  • All in Energy. All in Energy is a nonprofit with a mission to advance an inclusive clean energy economy. They bring energy efficiency and renewable energy to underserved communities, while increasing job opportunities for diverse talent in the clean energy industry. All in Energy partners with communities and can also directly support residents with home assessments and community solar.
  • Green Energy Consumers Alliance. Green Energy Consumers’ programs allow people to explore cost-effective, green solutions to their energy needs and to advance state policy toward electrification, renewable energy, grid modernization, and climate justice.
  • HeatSmart Alliance. The HeatSmart Alliance is a volunteer group that promotes the adoption of energy-efficient heating and cooling systems. The Alliance has a coaching program that provides one-on-one assistance to individuals and families that want to evaluate heat pumps for their homes and has also inspired more than a dozen communities in Massachusetts and other states to start coaching programs of their own, and provided them with educational materials and training.
  • Laminar Collective. Laminar Collective negotiates bulk deals on high-quality heat pump installations. The group also publishes detailed public research and advocates for consumers & ratepayers.
  • Massachusetts Association for Community Action. MASSCAP is the statewide association of the 23 Community Action Agencies operating in Massachusetts. Community Action Agencies in Massachusetts administer a variety of energy assistance programs for income-eligible residents.
  • Rewiring America. Rewiring America is a national nonprofit with the purpose of making electrification simple, measurable, and inevitable. They offer guides and tools for individuals in addition to their policy work.  
  • Acadia Center. Acadia Center’s mission is to advance bold, effective clean energy solutions for a livable climate and a stronger, more equitable economy. Acadia Center envisions a clean energy, low carbon economy focused on using advances in clean technology—not fossil fuels—to heat buildings, power cars, and generate power.
  • Applied Economics Clinic. AEC is a mission-based non-profit consulting group providing services (e.g., analysis, modeling, testimony, public reports, etc.) in the areas of energy, climate, environment, and social equity. AEC also offers services on a pro bono basis to environmental justice-focused community-based organizations. AEC’s clients are primarily public interest groups—non-profits, government agencies, and green business associations.
  • Browning the Greenspace. BGS is working to advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in clean energy and climate tech. BGS seeks to facilitate a just energy transition by putting Black and Brown communities first, and enabling systems change at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic justice. BGS is powering a just energy transition by creating jobs, building wealth, and reducing energy burden in Black and Brown communities across Massachusetts and beyond. By removing barriers and expanding access, BGS seeks to close the racial wealth gap while combating climate change.
  • Conservation Law Foundation. CLF protects New England’s environment for the benefit of all people. CLF uses the law, science, and the market to create solutions that preserve our natural resources, build healthy communities, and sustain a vibrant economy.
  • Emerald Cities Collaborative. ECC pursues a high-road approach to greening our cities, building resilient regional economies and strengthening our democracy. By building cross-sector collaborations, acutely focused on those historically left out of the economic and community development process, ECC helps communities unleash their capacity to build high-road economies that are more sustainable, economically just and democratic.
  • Groundwork Data. Groundwork Data offers advisory, research, and technology services to support a clean, equitable, and resilient energy transition.
  • HEET. HEET is a nonprofit with a mission to drive systems change through an ethical and efficient thermal energy transition. HEET believes in an affordable, equitable transition to clean energy that meets the needs of all, from low-income communities to gas utility workers to future generations.
  • Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships. NEEP is a regional nonprofit that works to accelerate energy efficiency, electrification, and grid flexibility in the building sector as a core strategy to reduce climate pollution and build an affordable, sustainable, and resilient energy future.
  • RMI – Carbon Free Buildings. RMI is ending reliance on fossil fuels to power and construct our built environment, bringing buildings to the forefront of a clean energy future.
  • UndauntedK12. UndauntedK12 is a national nonprofit working to ensure that every student has the opportunity to attend a safe, healthy, and resilient school.
  • The Alliance for Climate Transition. ACT is the largest nonprofit trade organization dedicated exclusively to building and maintaining the climate economy by helping companies, nonprofits, and municipalities grow and scale their business and sustainable operations. ACT envisions a decarbonized, resilient, and connected Northeast and world where all communities, businesses, and institutions are empowered by a thriving and just climate economy.
  • Built Environment Plus. Built Environment Plus is a membership-based community advocating for green buildings at the state and local level. Built Environment Plus provides green building education, networking, advocacy, and leadership opportunities for the sustainable building practitioner community and beyond.
  • LISC Massachusetts – Green Homes. For over 15 years, LISC Massachusetts has led energy and healthy housing work with affordable housing owners and grown into a trusted partner and resource for local and state policy makers and regulators. ​In that time, LISC Massachusetts has helped drive resources to the state’s affordable housing sector, aligned incentives to help owners maximize the energy efficiency of their properties, integrate appropriate clean energy technologies, decrease carbon emissions, and provide residents with a higher quality of life through energy efficiency and healthy housing improvements. LISC’s Decarbonization Hubis a consolidated resource for affordable housing owners interested in accessing technical assistance and funding for building decarbonization projects.
  • The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. NESEA helps high-performance building and energy efficiency professionals improve their practices by learning from and networking with one another.
  • Passive House Massachusetts. Passive House Massachusetts is a member-based non-profit organization that promotes a healthy and comfortable built environment that significantly reduces energy consumption and lowers carbon emissions by utilizing the Passive House building standard and other high-performance building strategies, focusing on education, training, outreach, and advocacy.
  • Massachusetts is home to hundreds of local and statewide organizations advocating for climate action and working towards local change. The list below captures only statewide organizations, leaving out the critical work of local environmental justice organizations such as Alternatives for Community & Environment, Berkshire Environmental Action Team, GreenRoots, the Springfield Climate Justice Coalition, and countless others.  
  • 350 Massachusetts. 350MA is a grassroots organization working to end fossil fuel dependency and secure a just transition to a clean energy future. The group advocates for deep systemic environmental and economic transformation through public policy, direct actions, coalitions, education, and community organizing.
  • Elders Climate Action Massachusetts. ECA Massachusetts helps concerned elders become effective climate change activists. They use policy and advocacy skills to foment real change, guided by what science tells us is needed and possible.
  • Environmental League of Massachusetts. ELM advocates for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. By creating diverse alliances and building the power of the environmental community, ELM uses its collective influence to ensure Massachusetts is a leader in environmental and economic sustainability.
  • Gas Transition Allies. As a coalition of more than 25 organizations and experts, Gas Transition Allies works to reduce methane emissions and advance a rapid transition from gas to non-emitting renewable energy.
  • Massachusetts Climate Action Network. MCAN strives to protect the climate through community action in order to ensure a healthy and equitable future for all by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable, and sustainable energy through decarbonization and electrification.
  • Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light. MassIPL’s mission is to educate people on why climate change is a matter of morality and justice, to foster public understanding of policies that will lead to a sustainable future, and to work with faith communities and their members to be better environmental stewards of their buildings by providing technical expertise and assessing ways they can lower their carbon emissions and save money.
  • Mass Power Forward. Mass Power Forward is a coalition of over 200 environmental leaders, community development organizations, clean energy businesses, faith groups, neighborhood health and safety advocates and Massachusetts families fighting for our future. Mass Power Forward believes our state and region can power forward with healthy, clean, affordable, reliable energy and a thriving economy.
  • Massachusetts Sierra Club. Sierra Club’s Massachusetts’ Chapter is working to build a stronger, more coordinated and deeply resilient climate justice and environmental protection movement.
  • Mothers Out Front Massachusetts. Mothers Out Front organizes mothers to ensure a healthy climate for all children by transforming unjust systems. Their vision is that future generations enjoy just access to a healthy environment.
  • ZeroCarbonMA. ZeroCarbonMA is fighting for climate action that creates safer homes, better jobs, and a livable future, a politics that answers to local will, and the belief that strong communities can stand up to the fossil fuel and real estate industry.
  • MassEnergize. MassEnergize works with community organizers and local leaders to scale household and community-level climate actions. MassEnergize offers a variety of support services for community outreach campaigns, including consultation services, digital campaign tools, marketing assistance, and campaign support.
  • New Ecology. New Ecology addresses global environmental issues by bringing the benefits of sustainable development to the community level with a concerted emphasis on equity. New Ecology makes the built environment more efficient, healthy, and resilient by advancing sustainable practices, ensuring accessible, affordable, and healthy environments in which to live and work.
  • PowerOptions. PowerOptions aims to reduce the cost, carbon, and complexity of energy for nonprofits and the public sector. Power Options offers programs for electricity and natural gas supply, turnkey solar projects, off-site renewables, efficiency, and clean transportation equipment and services.
  • Department of Energy Resources. DOER develops and implements policies and programs aimed at ensuring the adequacy, security, diversity, and cost-effectiveness of the Commonwealth’s energy supply to create a clean, affordable, equitable and resilient energy future for all residents, businesses, communities, and institutions.
  • Department of Public Utilities. The Department of Public Utilities (DPU) oversees investor-owned electric power, natural gas, and water companies in Massachusetts. In addition, the DPU regulates the safety of bus companies, moving companies, and transportation network companies. DPU also oversees the safety of natural gas pipelines.
  • Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. EEA seeks to protect, preserve, and enhance the Commonwealth’s environmental resources while ensuring a clean energy future for the state’s residents. Through the stewardship of open space, protection of environmental resources, and enhancement of clean energy, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs works tirelessly to make Massachusetts a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family.
  • Federal Funds & Infrastructure Office. FFIO is tasked with implementing a whole of government approach to ensuring the Commonwealth of Massachusetts can leverage the historic opportunities available for federal funding.
  • Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. MassCEC is a state economic development agency dedicated to accelerating the growth of the clean energy sector across the Commonwealth to spur job creation, deliver statewide environmental benefits and to secure long-term economic growth for the people of Massachusetts.
  • Massachusetts Community Climate Bank. MCCB will accelerate investments to decarbonize the building sector in Massachusetts, with an initial focus on affordable housing. MCCB will promote an equitable transition to clean energy by addressing the needs of low- and moderate-income households and environmental justice communities as the Commonwealth transitions to a net zero future.
  • Office of Environmental Justice and Equity. OEJE is committed to ensuring a fair and equitable distribution of all environmental and energy benefits and burdens. OEJE works with all agencies under the Secretary to ensure every policy and program is designed with equity at the center, ensuring all voices are heard and all voices are shaping the solutions.
  • Regional Planning Agencies. Massachusetts has thirteen regional planning agencies. Each RPA serves as a forum for state and local officials to address issues of regional importance, including the development of comprehensive plans and recommendations in areas of population and employment, transportation, economic development, regional growth and the environment.