Who is a member?
Our members are the local governments of Massachusetts and their elected and appointed leadership.
On April 22, the Baker-Polito administration launched the Gap III Energy Grant Program, designed to implement energy efficiency and clean energy facility upgrades to qualified entities.
The program will make up to $5 million available to municipal drinking water and wastewater facilities, and up to $2.5 million to nonprofit affordable housing, food- and agricultural-producing organizations and small business food-distribution and processing organizations across the state.
The administration said the grant program is designed to fill the last “gap” in project financing as facilities use utility incentives and other sources to build or install selected energy efficiency and clean energy projects.
The past two rounds of Gap grants helped 64 drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities increase operational efficiencies, while also saving more than $2.5 million in energy costs and producing more than 24,000 megawatt-hours in electricity savings from efficiency and on-site renewable power generation and reducing carbon emissions by nearly 18,000 metric tons each year.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, which manages the program, will hold two Zoom information sessions to help applicants, on June 2 at 10 a.m. and June 14 at 10 a.m.
To register for a webinar, or for more information or to apply, visit the program’s webpage.