Greenfield - a great place to live, work, and play! 

Enjoy the Green River Festival and many other exciting events in Greenfield!

Greenfield is home to a wide array of businesses ranging from eclectic shops to tech startups. Don't forget - you help your neighbors when you shop local!

The City of Greenfield has a mayoral form of government with a mayor and city council.

The staff of the City of Greenfield is ready to help you!

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Energy & Sustainability

WHAT WE DO

Ensure that Greenfield continues to meet or exceed Massachusetts' climate and resiliency goals by coordinating the planning and implementation of municipal energy and sustainability projects and programs. We also serve as a resource to residents looking for energy and sustainability information.

TO HELP RESIDENTS

  • Greenfield Light & Power the City’s municipal aggregation program. Providing 100% Green electricity to Greenfield's electricity customers!
  • MassSave provides rebates and incentives to resident and business to save on heating and cooling.
  • Community Action Pioneer Valley provides Fuel Assistance to qualified households.
  • Rewiring America offers an Inflation Reduction Act savings calculator.
  • Provide commercial PACE assistance to commercial property owners - access to low-cost financing for larger clean energy upgrades.
  • Eversource has Electric Vehicle home charging installation rebates.
  • Electric Vehicle charging stations. Electric vehicle drivers need to download the ChargePoint application to use the charging ports.
    • Continue to expand the network by securing grants, managing installations, ensuring operation, and tracking usage and revenue.
  • Maintain the Building Dashboards displaying the energy information on each municipal building.

FOR THE CITY

  • Track all municipal energy usage, and enter the data into the state's Mass Energy Insight program.
  • Procure competitive community-wide electricity supply and municipal natural gas contracts.
  • Monitor solar production and credits on the Cumberland Road solar farm and Mill Brook wellfield solar projects.
    • Pay invoices for the City’s Power Purchase Agreement rates.
    • Track and reconcile production with solar credits.
  • Participate in the Sustainable Greenfield Implementation Committee which works to implement the recommendations of the Sustainable Greenfield Master Plan. You can read about their work here.
  • Maintain the Sustainable Greenfield Facebook page.
  • Serve on building committees to provide assistance in achieving net-zero energy on new municipal building projects. 
    • Perform project management for all energy projects, including renewable energy, utility-sponsored projects, and building upgrades.
    • Coordinate with utilities for maximum incentives.
  • Manage Greenfield’s adherence to the Green Communities program and secure Green Communities Competitive grants.
    • Seek out and apply for other grant funding and incentives for energy and sustainability projects to offset City’s cost burden.