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Peak Demand Management

Header photo by Lloyd DeGrane/Midwest Energy News | Creative Commons BY-ND 2.0 Peak Demand Management CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy MAPC’s Peak Demand Notification Program 2023 Notifications Began on June 1 Email PeakDemand@mapc.org for more information. Each morning from June to mid-September, MAPC sends out an email that assesses the risk that the […]

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MAPC’s Municipal Net Zero Playbook

MAPC’s Municipal Net Zero Playbook CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy Clean Energy MAPC’s Municipal Net Zero Playbook A strategic guide for municipal action to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net zero by 2050. MAPC’s Municipal Net Zero Playbook (“the Playbook”) provides guidance and tools to equip cities and towns with the […]

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Net Zero Case Studies

Net Zero Case Studies CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy ZERO TO 101 NET ZERO COMMUNITY CASE STUDIES Cambridge, Boston, and Vancouver have each developed a Net Zero commitment and plans to achieve their goals. Explore these plans to see a range of approaches to achieving Net Zero commitments. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Getting to Net […]

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Net Zero

Net Zero CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy Zero to 101 Net Zero Planning Introduction Net Zero goal-setting, planning, and implementation is a way to advance a community’s carbon mitigation efforts. Net Zero planning offers each city or town the framework to form a scope of work and definition of Net Zero that meets […]

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What is Net Zero

What is Net Zero CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy Zero to 101 What is Net Zero? As net zero has grown in popularity, terms to describe it have proliferated. Not only do terms such as “100% Renewable Energy (RE),” “climate neutral,” and “carbon neutral” exist within the same sphere, but net zero can […]

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Net Zero Framework

Net Zero Framework CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy Zero to 101 Net Zero Framework for Holistic Climate Planning Many cities and towns in the MAPC region are already taking action by creating local energy action plans, becoming designated as Green Communities by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, and investing in renewable energy. […]

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Shared Energy Staffing Services

Shared Energy Staffing Services CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy MAPC Smart Growth & Regional Collaboration Shared Energy Staffing Services In the wake of a national economic recession and insufficient federal and state energy funding, many municipalities are challenged by the lack of energy staffing capacity for sustaining and expanding local energy efforts. Shared […]

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Technical Assistance

Technical Assistance CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy MAPC Smart Growth & Regional Collaboration Smart Cities & Towns Technical Assistance MAPC helps connect cities and towns to climate-smart innovations that create a multi-benefit platform for data management, energy efficiency, green municipal aggregation, municipal and community shared solar, energy storage and resiliency, and more. Green […]

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Collective Procurement

Collective Procurement CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy MAPC Smart Growth & Regional Collaboration Clean Technology & Services Collective Procurement Our Clean Energy Department leverages economies of scale and shifts the burdens of administration and technical expertise from the municipality to MAPC. Our collective procurements streamline the competitive procurement process cities and towns need […]

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Green Municipal Aggregation

Green Municipal Aggregation CHANGE FONT SIZE MAPC >> Clean Energy MAPC Smart Growth & Regional Collaboration Green Municipal Aggregation MAPC is committed to helping cities and town in the Commonwealth and the nation to develop green municipal aggregation programs that will truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, as well as provide cost […]

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