UMass Clean Energy Extension
The UMass Clean Energy Extension provides a resource to reduce market barriers and accelerate the adoption of clean energy for Massachusetts cities and towns, businesses, institutions, farms, low income and multiunit housing, and others.
The transition to clean energy is critical for Massachusetts to meet its greenhouse gas reduction commitments and provides an opportunity to foster new economic development in the Commonwealth.
The UMass Clean Energy Extension provides technical support and advice upon request, and proactively seeks opportunities to promote clean energy projects. We work with businesses eager to enter or diversify into the clean energy markets. We provide assistance in navigating through state programs that offer incentives for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
The UMass Clean Energy Extension supports and contributes to applied research activities across UMass departments and campuses that advance technical, economic, and policy solutions that support clean energy advancement in Massachusetts.
The UMass Clean Energy Extension joins the University’s historic mission as a Land Grant College to provide outreach and extension to the Commonwealth. No longer strictly limited to agriculture, the mission of UMass Extension extends to environmental well-being and human health as well. Similar to the role of UMass Extension in agriculture, the UMass Clean Energy Extension will provide the legitimacy, impartiality, and local responsiveness to assist entities in evaluating and implementing clean energy opportunities, to help businesses offer clean energy technologies into the marketplace, and to support applied research to address technical and policy challenges facing clean energy.
Highlights
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CEE Receives $147,000 to Train Diverse Cohort of Offshore Wind Professionals
September 5, 2024A grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) will provide $147,555 in funding to support 13 scholars from diverse backgrounds for CEE's Offshore Wind Professional Certificate Program. The grant will help CEE meet its goals of expanding, broadening and sustaining its three-course graduate certificate program offerings to meet increasing demand for a highly skilled workforce needed to serve the state’s growing offshore wind industry. Read the related article here.
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UMass Launches Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW)
February 14, 2024The UMass Offshore Wind Professional Certificate is proud and excited to collaborate with the Wind Energy Center at UMass Amherst and other ARROW team members to position this national center of excellence as a vital hub of research and education. We’re thrilled that, working together with ARROW, our Certificate students and alumni will continue to accelerate our nation and the world toward a clean and renewable energy future. Read the related article here:
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Catherine Coleman Flowers Keynote for Black History Month
February 14, 2024
