State Energy Plans: Massachusetts

Massachusetts Building Energy Transformation

• Reducing petroleum usage in New England by expanding energy efficiency opportunities to people and businesses who use oil and propane for heating and are not covered by programs for regulated fuels
• Demonstrating a deep energy retrofit (DER) strategy at one large building or many smaller buildings, in light of the recent work of the Governor’s Task Force on Zero Net Energy buildings
• Innovative approaches to financing customer adoption of energy efficiency improvements
• Education, outreach, and mobilization to help people choose to make energy performance improvements

• Rapid deployment of large systems to maximize PV capacity while providing maximum transparency and accountability
• Leveraging of federal funds to 3rd party providers to install and maintain large solar arrays
• Fostering expansion of MA PV industry and create local jobs

Energy Efficiency for State Facilities

• Provide the project management resources to accelerate, with a plan of initiating work on a 4 year pipeline of performance contracts in 18 months.
• "Buy down" the installed cost of innovative technologies with longer payback horizons and roll them into performance contracts
•  Investment in advanced meters to ensure that facility energy usage can be monitored and building management updated appropriately. This effort will be coordinated with ongoing centralization of electricity procurement by the state Administration and Finance agency.