After today’s signing of #NextGenClimate, the next big thing is implementing the statute. Several hard deadlines are coming up fast. (1/9) 
90 days after today's bill-signing - June 2021 - the Dept of Public Utilities, MA's powerful regulator of the natural gas & electric power industries, must begin to give equal weight to emissions reductions, alongside its traditional emphasis on reliability & prices. (2/9)
Also on or about July 1, Gov. Baker will have three new vacancies to fill -- green building experts, all -- on a reconstituted Board of Building Regulation and Standards, a high-impact-low-profile entity with enormous sway over energy use in new construction.
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By July 15, 2021, Secretary Theoharides must set a first-ever greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal for programs sponsored by Mass Save, the popular home energy efficiency program. (4/9)
No later than December 31, 2021, and continuing for every year thereafter, the DPU must have transferred $12 million in new funds to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, for a workforce training program focused on clean energy. (5/9)
No later than July 1, 2022, the EEA Secretary must adopt emissions limits & sublimits for the fast-approaching year 2025, together with a "comprehensive, clear & specific" plan to realize the limit and the sublimits. (6/9)
As a practical matter, this means the work will need to be done during the fiscal year starting July 1, just about three months from now. (7/9)
By 21 months from now -- sometime in December 2022 -- the Department of Energy Resources must have developed and promulgated a new "specialized stretch energy code"... (8/9)
...which includes a definition of “net-zero building” and net-zero building performance standards, that will be effective for any given town or city only upon adoption by the municipality itself. (9/9)
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