Massachusetts

2025 and 2030 Clean Energy and Climate Plan

2050 Clean Energy and Climate Plan

Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) Implementation Advisory Committee

Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience

33% by 2025 | 50% by 2030 | 75% by 2040 | 85% and net-zero by 2050

Relative to 1990 levels

The 1990-2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory was published in March 2023.

Requires certain facilities seeking air emissions permits in or near communities with EJ populations to conduct a cumulative impact analysis that includes meaningful public involvement of EJ populations.

Environmental Justice Council

EEA – Environmental Justice Task Force

EEA – Undersecretary of Environmental Justice & Equity

EEA – Director and Deputy Director of Environmental Justice

DEP – Director of Environmental Justice

DPU – Environmental Justice Contact

"Environmental justice populations" are neighborhoods where the median household income is 65% or less of the statewide median, minorities comprise 40% or more of the population, 25% or more of households lack English proficiency, or minorities comprise 25% of the population and the median household income does not exceed 150%.

Massachusetts 2020 EJ Populations

Energy Transformation Advisory Board

Office of Energy Transformation within the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

Massachusetts Community Climate Bank

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) covers the electricity sector.

The Department of Public Utilities must consider the social cost of carbon when assessing the cost effectiveness of energy efficiency and demand-reduction programs, and when issuing funding for energy efficiency programs.

40% renewable energy by 2030

Energy Pathways to Deep Decarbonization

53% reduction by 2025 | 70% by 2030 | 93% by 2050, relative to 1990 levels

Massachusetts has an active community choice aggregation program.

The State Policy Opportunity Tracker (SPOT) breaks clean energy policies down into “components”, which are binary questions to evaluate policy quality. Higher quality policies have more of their SPOT components fulfilled.

200 megawatts (MW) of storage capacity by 2020 and 1,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) by 2025

Massachusetts received a C grade from Freeing the Grid.

The statewide energy code for commercial building construction is 2021 IECC.

The statewide energy code for residential construction is 2021 IECC.

The Stretch Energy Code is 2021 IECC with Massachusetts amendments, and the Specialized Code is a municipal opt-in code that is designed to ensure new construction is consistent with the state's target of net-zero emissions by 2050.

The Appliance Efficiency Standards apply to 15 products.

Electric utilities are required to reduce cumulative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 504,000 metric tons for 2022-2024.

Gas utilities are required to reduce cumulative GHG emissions by 341,000 metric tons for 2022-2024.

Massachusetts has enacted commercial PACE-enabling legislation and has active programs.

The State Policy Opportunity Tracker (SPOT) breaks clean energy policies down into “components”, which are binary questions to evaluate policy quality. Higher quality policies have more of their SPOT components fulfilled.

The Massachusetts Offers Rebates for Electric Vehicles (MOR-EV) Program offers rebates for new and used electric vehicles (EVs): up to $3,500 for new or used battery and fuel cell EVs, and an additional $1,500 rebate for income-qualifying applicants.

Massachusetts LEV Program

Model Year (MY) 2026: 35% of new passenger vehicle sales are ZEVs | MY 2030: 68% of new sales are ZEVs | MY 2035: 100% of new sales are ZEVs, with up to 20% being hybrid or hydrogen-powered vehicles.

The Low NOx Omnibus Rule applies to Model Year 2025 onwards.

By 2035: 55% of Class 2b-3 truck sales are zero-emissions | 75% of Class 4-8 straight truck sales are zero-emissions | 40% of Class 7-8 tractor sales are zero-emissions.

The Massachusetts Offers Rebates for Electric Vehicles (MOR-EV) Program provides rebates of up to $7,500 for new battery or fuel-cell electric pickup trucks and other Class 2b vehicles, with additional rebates for income qualifying drivers. Rebates between $15,000 and $90,000 are offered for medium- and heavy-duty battery electric and fuel cell Class 3-8 vehicles, depending on vehicle class.

100% of transit bus purchases by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) are zero-emission by 2030 | 100% of MBTA's transit bus fleet are zero-emission by 2040

5% of the state fleet are ZEVs by 2025 | 20% are ZEVS by 2030 | 75% are ZEVs by 2040 | 100% are ZEVs by 2050

Requires at least one EV supply equipment (EVSE) charging port in new or fully reconstructed parking areas with up to 25 spaces and two ports in parking areas greater than 25 spaces; also requires at least 20% of parking spaces to be EV Ready in parking areas with 10+ spaces.

18% by 2025 | 34% by 2030 | 86% by 2050

Relative to 1990 levels

The state prohibits the use of certain HFCs in refrigeration equipment, air conditioning chillers, aerosol propellants, and foams that are manufactured or used in Massachusetts.

The state sets a maximum annual SF6 leak rate of 1%, and requires owners to maintain their equipment in accordance with industry standards to reduce leakage of SF6.

Natural gas operators must meet annual declining methane emission limits.

Food waste ban – The state requires businesses and institutions that generate more than 0.5 tons of food waste per week to dispose of organic material via composting or anaerobic digestion.

The Massachusetts Coordinated Soil Health Program supports produce and dairy farmers in implementing soil health practices.

The Healthy Soils Farmer Consultant Program provides farmers who are newly adopting healthy soils practices with access to farmers who are experts in specific healthy soils practices, while compensating experienced farmers fairly for their time.