Overview
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) is an economic development agency dedicated to accelerating the growth of the Massachusetts clean energy sector. MassCEC aims to facilitate a clean energy transition that meets the state’s climate goals, spurs job creation, and secures long-term economic growth for the Commonwealth.
Building a clean energy economy requires an increase in the adoption of existing technology, as well as new climate solution innovation. To meet these goals, MassCEC designs and funds programs to discover, scale up, and more equitably distribute clean energy technologies and business models.
Its programs center on four focus areas and use key approaches.
MassCEC Focus Areas
- High-Performance Buildings: MassCEC bolsters the most impactful, resilient, and cost-effective electrification technologies and approaches to decarbonizing the buildings sector. Learn more.
- Clean Transportation: MassCEC advances the commercialization of cutting-edge clean transportation technologies and enables new finance and business models for electric vehicle deployment. Learn more.
- Net Zero Grid: MassCEC fosters the collaboration and innovation needed to modernize and expand the electric grid to power our buildings, industry, and transportation system with zero greenhouse gas emissions. Learn more.
- Offshore Wind: MassCEC accelerates the responsible development of offshore wind projects, while increasing the role of Massachusetts companies, institutions, and workers in the offshore wind industry. It also operates two key facilities to the industry: the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal and the Wind Technology Testing Center, both the first of their kind in North America. Learn more.
The MassCEC Approach
- Technology to Market: MassCEC funds innovative clean energy technologies from research through commercialization.
- Workforce Development: MassCEC develops workforce programs that make clean energy careers, education, and training more accessible and works to ensure the Commonwealth’s diverse population equitably benefits from the sector’s opportunities. Learn More.
- Market Transformation: MassCEC accelerates the adoption of new clean energy technologies through proving and scaling business models and developing critical clean energy infrastructure.
- Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: MassCEC incorporates principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and environmental justice in all aspects of its work. It supports an inclusive clean energy transition and works to ensure the environmental and economic advantages of clean energy are equitably distributed.
- Investments: MassCEC makes direct venture debt and equity investments in companies across the climatech landscape, filling funding gaps to advance clean technology, create green jobs, and leverage private capital throughout the Commonwealth. Learn More.
In its work to build the clean energy economy, MassCEC collaborates with partners in industry, government, research universities, and the financial sector. These include policy-makers, employers, job seekers, students, municipal governments, community organizations, schools, industry experts, technology incubators, academics, business accelerators, energy consumers, clean energy installers, environmental advocates and the innovators who are developing the next generation of clean energy technologies.