MassCEC Announces New Solar Initiative

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center said today that it will launch an initiative called Solarize Massachusetts to encourage residents and businesses to adopt solar photovoltaic panels on a community-wide level. The program will deploy in the four pilot communities of Harvard, Hatfield, Scituate, and Winchester initially, and will use education, marketing, and group purchasing to get solar technology into buildings and homes. Solarize Massachusetts is now soliciting proposals from solar integrators with group purchasing models.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.