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Town of Chelmsford, MA — Public school building electrification
The Chelmsford Public School Building Electrification (PSB-E) Study analyzed nine public school facilities totaling 825,048 square feet, built between 1935 and 2006, across a 28-year lifecycle horizon. The Town needed a defensible basis for a capital decision on deep energy retrofits and full building electrification — a decision the select board and school committee would have to stand behind through multiple budget cycles.
The study produced the lifecycle cost framework the Town used to evaluate the $47.4M electrified capital pathway against a business-as-usual baseline. Each path was accounted in full: capital flows, utility costs, maintenance, emissions trajectory, and the assumptions behind every number. Contracted, delivered, and publicly available.