MassCEC Blog

Guest Blog by: New England Aquarium Aerial Survey Team: Sharon Hsu (Research Technician), Katherine McKenna (Assistant Scientist), and Orla O’Brien (Associate Scientist)

About Our Survey

The New England Aquarium has been conducting aerial surveys of the waters south of Martha’s Vineyard and…

Guest Blog by: Abigail Hevey, Project Manager at Shoreline Marine Terminal

Bolstering Offshore Wind

With funding from MassCEC’s Offshore…

Hanna Touadjine, Community Clean Energy & Environmental Justice Fellow

The EmPower Massachusetts Program (EmPower) program team is excited to continue highlighting the accomplishments of our awardees through project spotlight articles. Today’s…

Brian Gervelis, Senior Scientist at INSPIRE Environmental & Jeffery Kneebone, Research Scientist at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium

The offshore waters of southern New England have long supported populations of highly migratory  fish species, or “HMS” for short — including sharks, tunas, and billfishes —…

Megan Amsler, Executive Director at Self-Reliance Corporation

The inaugural KidWind Offshore Wind Academy was hosted at Massachusetts Maritime Academy from July 24-29th, 2022. Students arrived on campus on a hot, sticky Sunday afternoon and…

Katelyn Buckley and Meg Howard

by: Jennifer Kritzler, CALSTART, and Kristen Patneaude, PowerOptions

Program Overview

Would you like to green your business and your fleet? Want to save money doing it? Mass Fleet Advisor, sponsored by the…

Justin MacLennan, Commercial Building Decarbonization and Climate Finance Fellow

Passive House building certification is becoming more common across the country and in Massachusetts. Last week, MassCEC staff toured Finch Cambridge, a 98-apartment affordable…

Keyana White, Clean Energy and Environmental Justice Fellow

As with our previous project spotlights, a wonderful part of the EmPower Massachusetts Program (referred to in this blog as “EmPower Mass” or the “Program”) has been the progress…