Services
WMass Energy provides independent energy advisory services to municipalities, school districts, and public agencies across western Massachusetts — from identifying opportunities to getting projects funded, procured, permitted, and built.
Engagements are scoped to active project work and adjusted as the work changes. Most fall into one or more of three practice areas below.
Practice Area 1
Fractional energy-manager capacity for cities and towns: utility tracking, decarbonization planning, Mass Save delivery, and Green Communities reporting.
Day-to-day energy-manager capacity for towns without a full-time hire — utility tracking, bill auditing, budget forecasting, and benchmarking, built on the systems municipal finance and DPW teams already use.
Building-by-building decarbonization roadmaps sequenced against school building cycles, capital plans, and available state and federal funding.
End-to-end management of efficiency projects through Mass Save and the utility Program Administrators — scoping through incentive capture and verification.
Designation, annual reporting, and competitive grant project scoping for cities and towns in the Green Communities program.
Practice Area 2
Independent technical review under 225 CMR 29.00, plus structured procurement under 225 CMR 19.00 and MGL Chapter 25A.
Phase-by-phase technical review for towns evaluating clean energy siting applications — pre-filing through post-approval compliance.
Running the Energy Management Services RFQ — qualifying ESCOs, supporting the Investment Grade Audit, and guiding contract negotiation and award.
Performance contracting and energy-related procurements under MGL c. 25A — feasibility through procurement structuring, contract review, and post-award oversight.
Practice Area 3
Competitive federal and state grant writing — from prospect research and application development through post-award compliance.
Competitive federal applications for energy, infrastructure, and environmental programs — written to municipal eligibility and scored against review criteria.
Massachusetts state and regional competitive grants — eligibility through submission and award negotiation.
Prospect research, pipeline management, and post-award compliance — the full lifecycle beyond the application itself.
How Engagements Are Structured
Most engagements are structured as ongoing partnerships covering coordination, tracking, and day-to-day guidance. Some towns retain a few hours per month for oversight; others maintain a larger commitment for active capital and grant projects. The level shifts with the season.
A recurring partnership keeps institutional memory in place through board turnover and staff transitions, so multi-year projects don't restart with every change. Specialized project work, large grant packages, engineering, and construction-phase services are scoped separately for clear deliverables and predictable costs.
Discuss an engagement
Introductory calls are no-cost and run about thirty minutes.
Daniel Abrahamson, CEM · dan@wmass.energy
