Through this Request for Proposals (“RFP”), the Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center (“MassCEC”) seeks proposals for projects that improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, or mitigate impacts of climate change at eligible public kindergarten through twelfth grade (“K-12”) schools in Massachusetts.
Donor Name: Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center (MassCEC)
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/13/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The goals of the Green School Works program, as stated in the enabling legislation, are to:
- “provide financial support to eligible public K-12 schools or districts for projects to install or maintain clean energy infrastructure;”
- “address the costs of installation, operation or upgrades of clean energy infrastructure that improves energy efficiency, reduces carbon emissions or mitigates impacts of climate change, including school rooftop construction or repair costs necessary for a clean energy infrastructure project to be safely installed;” and
- accelerate the adoption of energy efficiency and decarbonization measures by “schools serving low-income and environmental justice populations.”
Additional goals, based on stakeholder feedback and decarbonization goals for schools across the Commonwealth, are to:
- Serve as a source of gap funding for technical assistance and implementation of electrification and/or decarbonization projects;
- Leverage other sources of school decarbonization funding to the greatest extent possible and seed innovative financing approaches;
- Enable Massachusetts to take advantage of existing federal clean energy tax incentives;
- Provide building-specific assessments and plans, as well as high-level, district-wide decarbonization planning; and
- Support districts in meeting 2050 and interim emissions targets.
Funding Information
As a part of the Green School Works program, up to nineteen million dollars ($19,000,000) in funding is available through this RFP for school building modernization projects that improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, or mitigate the impacts of climate change. Awards could range from a minimum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to a maximum anticipated award of three million dollars ($3,000,000) for most projects. However, the maximum total potential grant amount is five million dollars ($5,000,000) when including a recoverable grant of at least two million dollars ($2,000,000).
Grant Period
MassCEC is seeking implementation projects that can begin construction within twelve months of contract signing and achieve project completion within thirty-six (36) months of contract signing.
Eligible Project Sites
For this funding, the project site must be a public K-12 school, or multiple public K-12 schools, in Massachusetts. Applicants must affirm that the project site will remain in use as a public K-12 school facility for at least 20 years. In addition to traditional public K-12 schools, Applicants/project sites eligible for this funding include:
- Charter schools owning their buildings or with long-term ground leases of at least 20 years.
- Educational collaboratives owning their buildings or with long-term ground leases of at least 20 years. Note: Educational collaboratives within larger public schools are also eligible to receive funding. In this case, the application should be for the building as a whole.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants to this RFP can be public schools, educational collaboratives, public school districts, or municipalities (“Applicants”) proposing eligible projects at eligible schools and/or school districts.
For more information, visit MassCEC.
