BETA: Non-Profit Buildings Pilot

The Challenge: Decarbonize Small-Medium Buildings Owned by Non-Profit or Public Entities

Non-profits and public entities face uniquely complex procurement, financing, and management processes for their building portfolios, which result in additional barriers to implementing already-challenging building decarbonization practices for existing buildings. Given that non-profits and public entities own a sizable portion of the Commonwealth’s building stock, and that many of these buildings have the potential to “lead by example,” this sector offers a great opportunity to establish practices for the decarbonization of building portfolios. To facilitate these transitions, these building owners often need roadmaps to:

• Initiate planning discussions
• Support decision-makers with capital and budget planning
• Enable procurement pathways
• Identify options for reducing cost, risk, and process challenges in decarbonizing
   

About the Building Electrification and Transformation Accelerator (BETA): Non-Profit Buildings Pilot

The Building Electrification and Transformation Accelerator (BETA): Non-Profits Pilot is a MassCEC initiative in partnership with PowerOptions with the objective of accelerating the electrification and decarbonization of the building segment owed by non-profits and public entities. This pilot provides non-profit and public-entity building owners with a high-level overview of decarbonization opportunities aligned with building capital needs across their portfolios, with the target of zero-emissions building portfolios by 2050. The pilot provides actionable roadmaps and is intended to enable efficient, effective procurement strategies that address the unique needs of non-profits and public entities. 

The BETA: Non-Profits Pilot aligns with the MassCEC High-Performance Buildings strategy, which has as top priorities to 1) the surfacing and demonstration of building decarbonization approaches and 2) the support of “zero-over-time” planning. This pilot also supports 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. The pilot will help establish clear pathways for this sector to align with these building decarbonization goals.