Client: Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Author: Elizabeth A Stanton, PhD, Sagal Alisalad, Joshua R. Castigliego, Bryndis Woods, PhD, Tanya Stasio, PhD, Jordan Burt, PhD, and Elisabeth Seliga
August 2026
On behalf of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (MA EEA), AEC staff collaborated with Introba and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop the Massachusetts Building Energy Scenario Tool (MassBEST), a flexible modeling platform that integrates building-level energy modeling, adoption and propensity modeling, policy representation, and electric grid impact analysis to support the Commonwealth’s decarbonization decision-making. In this project, AEC designed a heuristic model of commercial clean technology adoption and addressed equity in the MassBEST model in response to the input of Massachusetts agency staff.