BETA: Roadmaps Grants

BETA: Roadmaps Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
Last Updated: November 29, 2025

Summary

The BETA: Roadmaps initiative by MassCEC aims to accelerate building electrification and decarbonization for non-profit and public entities in Massachusetts. This program provides actionable roadmaps to achieve zero-emissions building portfolios by 2050, supporting the state’s climate goals. Participants receive tailored decarbonization strategies, addressing their unique needs while fostering sustainable practices across diverse building types. With a focus on efficient procurement and implementation, the initiative aligns with the Commonwealth's broader clean energy objectives.

Overview

Note: No application needed. You only need to email in your expression of interest in participating in the BETA: Roadmaps initiave. About MassCEC The Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center (MassCEC) is a quasi-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. Our Mission MassCEC's mission is to accelerate the clean energy and climatetech innovation that is critical to meeting the Commonwealth’s climate goals, while advancing Massachusetts’ position as an international climate leader and growing the state’s clean energy economy. Building Electrification and Transformation Accelerator (BETA): Roadmaps The Building Electrification and Transformation Accelerator (BETA): Roadmaps is a MassCEC initiative in partnership with PowerOptions with the objective of accelerating the electrification and decarbonization of the building segment owed by non-profits and public entities. This pilot provides non-profit and public-entity building owners with a high-level overview of decarbonization opportunities aligned with building capital needs across their portfolios, with the target of zero-emissions building portfolios by 2050. The pilot provides actionable roadmaps and is intended to enable efficient, effective procurement strategies that address the unique needs of non-profits and public entities. The BETA: Roadmaps aligns with the MassCEC High-Performance Buildings strategy, which has as top priorities to 1) the surfacing and demonstration of building decarbonization approaches and 2) the support of “zero-over-time” planning. This pilot also supports the Commonwealth’s building decarbonization goals expressed in the Clean Energy & Climate Plan for 2030, which calls for a broad and aggressive transition of statewide buildings by 2030, including improving building envelopes and electrifying 300 to 400 million square feet of commercial-scale buildings. The pilot will help establish clear pathways for this sector to align with these building decarbonization goals. Services Provided: Portfolio-level multi-year decarbonization roadmap and implementation plan. The pilot approach consists of four components of services offered to participating entities: Capturing and analyzing the carbon footprint of building portfolios using building-level energy usage dataEvaluating holistic building decarbonization measures (energy efficiency, electrification, on-site renewables, RECs as offsets) based on building-specific dataDeveloping high-level multi-year roadmap and implementation plan based on economic and feasibility assessmentsSupporting implementation through procurement and measuring performance Award Potential: Custom electrification and decarbonization plan, including financing analysis.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Who's Eligible to Participate? Non-profit and public entity building portfolio owners in Massachusetts are eligible to participate in the BETA: Roadmaps. The buildings in participants’ portfolios may represent a wide variety of building use types, typologies, and sizes. Example building types include, but are not limited to, cultural institutions, non-profit healthcare facilities, higher education, public and local housing authorities, non-profit affordable housing, human services facilities, municipal facilities, non-profit private schools, public schools, senior living, religious institutions, and state facilities.