Urban Scale Sustainability
Electric Vehicle Market Development
Helping to Ensure that Boston is EV Ready
Greentech is playing an advisory role in a cross departmental team including traffic management, clean energy, energy management, economic development and climate change expertise to develop a comprehensive electric vehicle adoption and electric vehicle charging infrastructure plan for the City of Boston. Greentech represents the interests of EV charging infrastructure vendors, clean energy advocates and developers, smart grid ventures, and sustainable business owners.
Galvin Electricity Initiative
Business District Scale Sustainable Energy Solutions
District heating. A municipally supported energy aggregation buying group. On-site, business community owned renewable energy production. Smart Grid ready buildings. High performance energy standards and assistance for tenant fit outs. Green leases. A lower carbon, more competitive Boston Marine Industrial Park (BMIP). The Boston Redevelopment Authority is pursuing these strategies and more in a partnership with the Galvin Electricity Initiative in the BMIP. A forward looking, sustainable district scale energy plan complements the growing cleantech cluster in the BMIP and will provide a replicable model for district scale energy work across the City.
Newmarket Eco-Industrial Development project
Promoting corporate sustainability and developing a model for eco-industrial zones within existing urban cores
With grant support from the US Environmental Protection Agency, and project management consulting support from Meister Consulting Group, the GreenTech initiative is leading a corporate sustainability effort in one of Boston’s most important light industrial, manufacturing and distribution nodes, the Newmarket business district. The project will identify business-centered sustainability strategy to assist area businesses achieve operational cost-savings, leverage local/state/federal resources, and develop pathways to meet other business competitiveness, environmental, energy, social and community health goals. The project will also conduct several district scale energy related feasibility studies to identify innovative solutions to long-standing transportation, energy, and business competitiveness challenges.
