Clean Energy Lives Here provides information on the optimal clean energy home, including weatherization, heating and cooling, electricity, vehicles, and appliances that can help you save money, improve the comfort of your home, and reduce pollution.
Clean Energy Lives Here is brought to you by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) and the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER). MassCEC is a state economic development agency dedicated to accelerating the growth of the clean energy sector to spur job creation, deliver statewide environmental benefits, and to secure long-term economic growth for the people of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts DOER develops and implements policies and programs aimed at ensuring the adequacy, security, diversity, and cost-effectiveness of the state’s energy supply to create a clean, affordable, and resilient energy future.
Help reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and increase
the adoption of clean energy in Massachusetts.
Reduction by 2025
Reduction by 2030
Reduction by 2040
Did you know that about half of all homes in Massachusetts were built before 1964? Even if your home or property isn’t quite that old, energy-conscious solutions for insulating, heating, cooling, doing laundry, and cooking may not have been a priority for your home’s builder or its prior owners.
Given that in Massachusetts, 42% of air pollution from greenhouse gas emissions come from our residences and vehicles, planning for the decarbonization of our homes and transportation is crucial to help the state reach its climate goals. Communities and individual residents have the opportunity to reduce pollution and get the benefit of cost savings and technology upgrades as they make home improvements and vehicle purchases.
Replacing fossil fuel inputs to heating, home appliances and transportation with electricity enables you to power your life with increasingly cleaner electricity sources like solar, wind, and hydropower. Renewables generated over 20% of the electricity we consumed in Massachusetts in 2020, and Massachusetts law requires that they generate 40% in 2030 and 80% of grid electricity in 2050. In contrast, heating, home appliances and transportation that depend on fossil fuels will remain as polluting in future years as they are today.
Over the years, MassCEC has helped tens of thousands of homeowners learn about, acquire, and redeem incentives for heat pumps, solar electricity, EVs, and more through our community-based programs like SolarizeMass and HeatSmart. That expertise that we developed during over 100 community engagements is the foundation for Clean Energy Lives Here.
We take the mystery out of home technologies that are unfamiliar to you and give you the facts so you can have an informed conversation with contractors and service providers about your home system and appliance choices.
There are many ways homeowners and landlords can bring clean energy into their homes and properties. If you are a renter, while you might have less control over the space you live in there are still ways you can benefit from clean energy and influence the conversation about clean energy:
Whether we’re homeowners, landlords, or renters, many of us face unique challenges with our quirky, lovable, and (in many cases) decades-old dwellings here in Massachusetts! Be a discerning customer of energy sources. Help the climate as you improve your house or apartment. The energy decisions of the past won’t dictate our energy future if we are informed consumers of energy and select clean, efficient systems and appliances when replacing legacy home technologies.
MassCEC’s mission is to accelerate the clean energy and climatetech innovation that is critical to meeting the state’s climate goals, while advancing Massachusetts’ position as an international climate leader and growing the state’s clean energy economy.
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