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About UMass Clean Energy Extension

UMass Clean Energy Extension

The UMass Clean Energy Extension provides a resource to reduce market barriers and accelerate the adoption of clean energy for Massachusetts cities and towns, businesses, institutions, farms, low income and multiunit housing, and others.

The transition to clean energy is critical for Massachusetts to meet its greenhouse gas reduction commitments and provides an opportunity to foster new economic development in the Commonwealth.  The UMass Clean Energy Extension provides a resource dedicated to reducing market barriers and accelerating the adoption of clean energy for Massachusetts cities and towns, businesses, institutions, farms, low income and other multiunit housing, and others.

The UMass Clean Energy Extension provides technical support and advice upon request, and proactively seeks opportunities to promote clean energy projects.   We work with businesses eager to enter or diversify into the clean energy markets.  We provide assistance in navigating through state programs that offer incentives for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.

The UMass Clean Energy Extension supports and contributes to applied research activities across UMass departments and campuses that advance technical, economic, and policy solutions that support clean energy advancement in Massachusetts.

The UMass Clean Energy Extension joins the University’s historic mission as a Land Grant College to provide outreach and extension to the Commonwealth. No longer strictly limited to agriculture, the mission of UMass Extension extends to environmental well-being and human health as well.  Similar to the role of UMass Extension in agriculture, the UMass Clean Energy Extension will provide the legitimacy, impartiality, and local responsiveness to assist entities in evaluating and implementing clean energy opportunities, to help businesses offer clean energy technologies into the marketplace, and to support applied research to address technical and policy challenges facing clean energy.

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  • About Clean Energy Extension
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  • UMass Collaborators
  • Strategic Plan
  • Statement on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
  • Contact
  • State Partner & Quarterly Progress Reports

Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources

The UMass Clean Energy Extension was established with funds from the MA Department of Energy Resources. The Extension will work in partnership with DOER to help fulfill its mission and programmatic activities to promote clean energy for the Commonwealth.

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