BETA: Roadmaps

The Building Electrification and Transformation Accelerator (BETA): Roadmaps is a MassCEC initiative in partnership with PowerOptions designed to accelerate the electrification and decarbonization of building portfolios owned by non-profits and public entities in Massachusetts. The program provides non-profit and public-entity building owners with high-level overviews of decarbonization opportunities aligned with building capital needs across their portfolios, with a target of zero-emissions building portfolios by 2050. The pilot provides actionable roadmaps intended to enable efficient, effective procurement strategies that address the unique needs of non-profits and public entities. Services include: (1) Capturing and analyzing the carbon footprint of building portfolios using building-level energy usage data; (2) Evaluating holistic building decarbonization measures (energy efficiency, electrification, on-site renewables, RECs as offsets) based on building-specific data; (3) Developing high-level multi-year roadmap and implementation plan based on economic and feasibility assessments; (4) Supporting implementation through procurement and measuring performance. The program utilizes carbon reduction advisors, data analysts, an energy data platform for automation and visualization, a virtual energy efficiency audit tool, and a proprietary building decarbonization model. Resources include supplier and utility energy data, building topology, HVAC data, and other source data available through data licenses as well as data from building owners. The program aligns with the MassCEC High-Performance Buildings strategy and 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.