Clean energy funding, matched to the communities that miss it
Turn public clean energy funding into finished local projects.
America committed historic money to clean energy. The communities that need it most are the least equipped to claim it. NexVerde closes that gap. We find the funding a town or school can win, show what it takes to be ready, and help them get projects built.
Claiming that funding takes staff to run the numbers, structure the financing, navigate the rules, and carry an application across the finish line. Small and mid-sized communities rarely have it, so the money goes to the places that do.
17%
of eligible municipalities never even claimed clean energy funds that were set aside for them.
National League of Cities, citing U.S. Department of Energy (2023)
Built on public data
351
Massachusetts cities and towns tracked
7
Green Communities grant rounds analyzed, Sept 2023 to Aug 2026
$48.2M
in competitive awards mapped to the towns that won them
85 of 168
towns under 10,000 people received no Green Communities grant in that time
NexVerde analysis of Massachusetts DOER Green Communities announcements, Sept 2023 to Aug 2026. As of October 2026.
When small towns win, they win big: about $42 per resident, compared with about $7 in larger towns. But half of them got no Green Communities grant at all in three years. That's the gap we close. We help the towns that are missing out get to the starting line, ready to compete.
17%
of eligible municipalities never claimed clean energy funds set aside for them. Is your town one of them?
Founder's track record across Massachusetts and 12 states
Proven ground
A track record before a pitch.
$1.2M+
municipal clean energy projects developed and managed
60+
grant and proposal submissions led
12+
states of on-the-ground experience
38+
industry and government engagements
Founder's results from prior roles in municipal clean energy development, including work with agencies such as MassDOT, the MBTA, and the Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office. NexVerde is where that experience becomes a repeatable model.
Insights & data
We see the clean energy market at every scale.
Explore the market map behind the work: federal opportunities and awards (prototype data, still being verified), plus the Grid-Ready Massachusetts prototype towns.
For municipalities, school districts, and public agencies with no grant staff of their own, we take you from eligible to submission-ready, then connect the funded project to the partners who build it.
1
Match
We profile your community, then run it against the live universe of federal, state, and utility programs and the real eligibility rules behind each. You get the programs you can win, not everything you might qualify for.
You get: a ranked shortlist with award ranges, deadlines, and match requirements.
2
Ready
We assess readiness across five pillars (data, planning, capacity, governance, engagement), build the numbers that persuade a reviewer, and write the application to the funder's scoring rubric.
You get: a readiness score, your baselines built, and a competitive application.
We help you understand what the project needs, so your team or your engineer can define it. When your project is funded and you're ready to build, we help you understand the procurement steps your funder requires. You run your own bid. Once your bid is public, we let qualified firms know it's open. We track milestones and funder reporting from award to construction.
You get: a fair, public bid with qualified firms invited to compete.
Every step runs on Grid-Ready, our matching and readiness engine. It scores a community against the programs it can realistically win, using real eligibility rules and award data, then builds the numbers underneath: utility data, load profiles, benchmarked baselines, and a savings, cost and emissions model a reviewer can check. That is what makes the match sharper, the readiness real, and the delivery scope credible.
Match — find the funding you can actually win
What the shortlist is built from
Build your funding profile: buildings, energy spend, region, income level, prior awards, and designations like Green Community status.
Score each program by how competitive you are on real eligibility and award data, not just whether you qualify.
Name a recommended first target, not only the list.
Ready — get application-ready and competitive
What the score is built from
Consolidated utility data, twelve-month load profiles, a benchmarked baseline, and a savings, cost and emissions model a reviewer can check.
A punch-list of exactly what is missing, with an owner for each gap.
An application written to the funder's scoring rubric, or the finished pieces to hand your own grant writer.
Deliver — get it built
What the handoff includes
A named scope, such as rooftop solar, a heat pump system, storage on a fire station, or lighting and controls across town buildings.
When your project is funded and you're ready to build, we help you understand the procurement steps your funder requires. You run your own bid.
We track milestones and funder reporting from award to construction.
Towns, schools and public agencies
You run your own public bid. We never write it, score it or pick the winner.
Once your bid is posted, we let qualified firms know it's open.
Every firm competes on the same public information.
Private owners and nonprofits
If your project isn't bound by public bidding rules, we can introduce you directly to vetted firms that fit your project.
You choose who to hire. You're never required to use a firm we introduce.
We tell you in writing if a firm you meet pays NexVerde.
Using public grant money? Many funders require competitive quotes even for private and nonprofit owners. If yours does, we follow the public path.
How we build the numbers.
Every number traces back to a bill, a public record or a funder's own calculator.
1
Gather
With your permission, read-only access to your MassEnergyInsight account, plus any utility bills it's missing.
2
Baseline
Energy use and cost per building, compared with similar buildings.
3
Model
Savings, payback and a funding stack showing grant, incentive and local share.
4
Emissions
Tons of CO2e avoided, using EPA's eGRID factors for the New England grid.
5
Check
Baselines matched to real bills, and every number reviewed by a second person.
6
Package
The numbers presented the way the funder scores them.
Who we serve
Two sides of the same project.
On one side, the public institutions that need clean energy and can't chase the funding alone. On the other, the firms that engineer and build it. NexVerde connects them, and does the work in the middle that makes the project real.
Communities
Municipalities, school districts & public agencies
The public bodies that own the buildings, carry the energy bills, and qualify for the funding, but rarely have the staff to go get it. We work alongside your staff.
Municipalities: town and city halls, DPW and public works, water and wastewater plants, libraries, public safety, garages, streetlights, and fleets
School districts: K-12 schools, admin buildings, and bus depots
Agencies & authorities: public housing, water and sewer districts, transit, and regional agencies
A funded, ready-to-build public project is expensive to source. When a funded community posts a bid, you hear about it fast, with the funding picture attached.
EPCs, solar developers, and installers
ESCOs, electrical, and mechanical / HVAC contractors
MEP and civil engineers, controls integrators, EV installers, and O&M providers
Massachusetts sent $8.1 million to 57 towns in one Green Communities round this year. We track which towns show up in public award records, what those records say they plan to build, and when their public bids open.
We're running a research pilot with a few Massachusetts installers this fall.
Named precisely, so the funding match and the public bid are clear.
Generate
Rooftop, ground-mount, and carport solar PV.
Store & harden
Battery storage, solar-plus-storage, and microgrids for resilience.
Electrify & heat
Air and ground-source heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, and HVAC.
Tighten & optimize
Weatherization, LED lighting and controls, and building automation.
Move
EV charging, and municipal and school fleet electrification.
Public works
Water and wastewater efficiency, and streetlight conversion.
Plan & prove
Energy audits, benchmarking, feasibility, and interconnection studies.
What the community list leaves out
Also on the municipal side
Senior and community centers, and infrastructure the town owns outright, such as parking areas.
Why schools are strong candidates
A school's energy use matches solar's production almost perfectly, and every dollar saved on energy is a dollar freed for classrooms. Athletic facilities sit in the same building stock.
The agencies most often skipped
Public housing authorities, regional water and sewer districts, transit agencies, and regional planning agencies. They are the most likely to be overlooked and the most likely to serve high-need communities.
What they give back
Their profile and their project outcomes. That is what makes Grid-Ready smarter. Match, Ready, and the path to their own public bid stay at no cost to the community.
The rest of the build side
The cards name the main trades. These are the firms that compete when a bid is public, including the ones that prove the work and keep it running.
EPC firms (engineering, procurement, and construction)
Solar developers and installers, rooftop, ground-mount, and canopy
Energy service companies (ESCOs) running performance contracts
Electrical contractors and mechanical / HVAC contractors
Civil and structural engineers, for ground-mount arrays, carports, and roof loading
Controls and building-automation integrators
EV charging installers and fleet electrification specialists
Commissioning agents and energy engineering firms
Operations and maintenance (O&M) providers for the life of the asset
Why naming it matters
A community does not need "clean energy." It needs a heat pump system in an elementary school, a solar canopy over a DPW lot, storage on a fire station, or LED and controls across every town building. When the work is named precisely, the funding match is sharper and the readiness path is clear. The community's engineer defines the scope. Firms see it only when the bid is public. That precision is the difference between a project that gets built and a good idea that sits.
For delivery partners
Hear about public clean energy bids when they open.
Massachusetts sent $8.1 million to 57 towns in one closed Green Communities round. Town records often do not say who installed the work. We use public award records and public bid notices: which communities received public awards, what those records say they plan to build, and when their public bids open.
Funding signals
Which towns show up in public award data for state and federal clean energy programs.
Project type
Solar, heat pumps, EV charging, efficiency and more, so you only see work you do.
Bid timing
Early notice when a funded community's public bid opens, at the same time as everyone.
Built only from public data. We never share a client's private plans, and every firm gets public bid notices at the same time.
We're running a research pilot with a few Massachusetts installers this fall.
NexVerde runs on Grid-Ready. It scores a community against every clean energy program it can realistically win, using real eligibility rules and award data, and it gets sharper with every win-loss outcome it captures.
Match, scored not guessed
A community profile run against live federal, state, and utility rules. The output is a ranked, winnable shortlist and the best-funded mix of projects, not a directory dump.
Readiness, made measurable
Five pillars — data, planning, capacity, governance, and engagement — turned into a score and a punch-list so the application competes.
It sharpens with use
Who applied, who won, who lost, and why will build the win-probability record as outcomes accumulate. That record is the moat, and it cannot be scraped.
AI, used honestly
AI parses and drafts behind the scenes. Funding and eligibility calls stay on real data and an exact algorithm, with a human in the loop.
The core idea
Match, Ready, and Deliver turn a funding opportunity into a finished project. Grid-Ready is the engine under those three steps. The tabs below are the logic behind each one, not a second explanation of the same three points.
Match — find the funding a community can actually win
The logic
Eligibility is not the same as competitiveness. Thousands of communities qualify for any given program, but only a few are positioned to win it. Matching well means reading both the written rules and the unwritten ones.
How we do it
The profile is buildings, budget, region, income level, and designations. Grid-Ready runs that profile against live federal, state, and utility rules, then solves for the mix of projects that returns the most impact per dollar under real constraints. The data refreshes. It is not a directory that goes stale the day it is printed.
Why it is different
Anyone can look up a grant. We tell a community which grants it can win, and why.
Ready — show exactly what it takes to be fundable
The logic
A winning application is built long before the deadline. The difference between funded and unfunded is almost always the difference between measured and unmeasured. Readiness is that gap, made visible.
How we do it
We assess readiness across five things a community can actually measure. Data: consolidated utility accounts, benchmarked buildings, a current baseline. Planning: an adopted energy plan with prioritized, costed projects. Capacity: staff or a partner to run the work. Governance: procurement and approval processes that move on a funder's timeline. Engagement: a real structure for community input. We score where a community stands and hand it a concrete punch-list to close the gaps, so its application competes instead of stalling.
Why it is different
We do not just tell a community it qualifies. We get it ready to win.
Deliver — the community runs its own bid
The logic
When a project is funded and ready to build, the community runs a fair, public bid. NexVerde does not write the bid, the scope, or the specifications, and does not pick the contractor.
How we do it
When your project is funded and you're ready to build, we help you understand the procurement steps your funder requires. You run your own bid. Once your bid is public, we let qualified firms know it's open. We track milestones and funder reporting from award to construction. Communities use the match and readiness work at no cost. Firms pay for early notice of public bids. They get no inside information and no advantage.
Why it is different
Most consultants stop at the award, or they steer the project to a builder. We stay on the community's side of the bid.
Grid-Ready: the market at three scales
The market map sees clean energy funding at three levels. National and state figures come from public federal data that refreshes daily.
National
The whole market and the whole gap
How much federal funding is open right now, and how much is actually reaching the ground. The space between the two is the opportunity.
State
Where to work first
Real federal dollars awarded per state, measured against need, so the best markets to enter are obvious.
Local
The actual work
Real communities matched to real programs, scored on readiness, packaged as leads. This is the layer closest to the people we serve, and it is where the value is created.
The local layer is the proof: Grid-Ready is a working prototype, not a live platform, validated on one closed Massachusetts round (Fall 2026 DOER, 57 towns) using real DOER award data, not synthetic assumptions. Real, but a single round. More rounds and states are still ahead.
The gap logic, the heart of it
Finding where the money is not reaching is the whole point, and it is a clean calculation once the data is in place.
We measure two things for every place. Need: energy burden, income, and population, the pressure a community is under. Captured: the federal clean energy dollars it has actually received per person, the money it has managed to pull down. High need and low captured, inside the set of communities that qualify, is the gap. The sharpest version is simple: communities that are eligible for a program but have never received it. That list is where the work should go, and it is the exact evidence that this problem is national, because you can show, with public data, precisely where the funding stops.
Why it compounds: the flywheel and the moat
As win-loss outcomes accumulate, a sharper win-probability model will make more accurate matches. Better matches are worth more to delivery firms and more useful to communities, which brings more of both, and more outcome data. Today matching runs on real eligibility and award data. The list of programs is not the asset. Anyone can assemble that.
The model in one line
Communities get the match and the readiness work for free, because what they give back, their profiles and their outcomes, is the asset. Some delivery firms pay a subscription for early notice of public bids. They get no inside information and no advantage. Aimed at the communities the big players overlook.
Why it is credible
Behind the prototype is a career of municipal clean energy development: a multi-million-dollar project pipeline and dozens of funding applications, done in the agencies where these decisions get made. NexVerde is where that experience becomes a repeatable model.
Analytics first
How we build the numbers
Funders score evidence, not promises. Every application we prepare is built on numbers a reviewer can check. The numbers make the funding case. Your engineer still owns the project design.
1
Gather
Twelve months of utility bills, a list of buildings with square footage, and any past audits or studies.
2
Baseline
We turn the bills into a load profile and compare each building's energy use per square foot against similar buildings using ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.
3
Model the savings and cost
For each project on the list we estimate yearly savings, total cost and simple payback, then build the funding stack: grant, utility incentive and local share.
4
Calculate emissions
We estimate tons of CO2e avoided each year using EPA eGRID factors for the New England grid and standard fuel factors.
5
Check it
We reconcile the baseline to actual bills, a second person reviews every model, and we use the funder's own calculator whenever it has one.
6
Package it
The numbers go into the format and order the funder scores, so reviewers find what they need fast.
We don't design projects or write bid specifications. Your engineer does. We make sure the funding case behind their work is solid.
Example only, not a real client
Funding plan snapshot
K-8 school, 62,000 sq ft, Massachusetts
Annual energy cost
$148,000
Energy use per sq ft
78 kBtu (similar schools: 62)
Top projects
LED lighting and controls · Heat pump conversion, phase 1 · 150 kW rooftop solar
Total project cost
$650,000
Estimated yearly savings
$41,000
CO2e avoided per year
About 118 tons
Source
Amount
State grant
$420,000
Utility incentive
$95,000
Local share
$135,000
Total
$650,000
Payback on the local share: about 3.3 years.
The team
The people behind the work.
NexVerde is built by practitioners who have already done this work in the field, and it has room to grow.
Founder & Principal Consultant · Boston, Massachusetts
Victor is a clean energy project developer and data analyst who has spent his career closing the gap between public funding and the communities that struggle to reach it. He has managed a multi-million-dollar municipal project pipeline, written dozens of successful funding applications, and represented projects in the rooms where public energy decisions get made.
He built NexVerde to turn that hard-won experience into something every under-resourced community can tap. He also serves the next generation of engineers as a leader in the National Society of Black Engineers.
M.S. Business Analytics, Bentley UniversityVP, NSBE Boston ProfessionalsFounder, Obetta Foundation
Clean energy certificates
OSHA 10-Hour ConstructionFoundations of Water TechnologyIntroduction to Utility-Scale SolarSolar BasicsIntroduction to Electrical CircuitsIntroduction to Electrical CodeNEC 2023Introduction to PVIntroduction to Heat PumpsIntroduction to Heat Pump Water Heaters
AI, used honestly
Optimization today. AI as the data earns it.
We use AI today to read dense funding rules into usable data and to draft faster. We claim AI capabilities only as the data to support them exists.
Data and an exact algorithm make the funding and eligibility calls, auditable, with a human in the loop. AI is operational only (parsing, drafting, routing), never the decision. As our outcome dataset grows, that same foundation can power the win-probability models that make each match stronger.
Our promise
How we stay independent
NexVerde works for the community. We help you win the funding. You run your own bids. We never write the rules, and we never pick the winner.
What we do
Find federal, state and utility programs you qualify for
Show you what's missing and help you fix it
Prepare your funding application and supporting paperwork
What we never do
Write your bid documents, project scope or specifications
Evaluate or score bids
Choose your contractor
Share your project details with any firm before your bid is public
How we're paid
Communities pay a fixed fee or retainer for full project work. Our first two steps are free.
Some delivery firms pay NexVerde a subscription for early notice of public bids.
We tell every client in writing which firms those are.
Paying firms get no inside information and no advantage. They bid like everyone else.
For private and nonprofit clients, a firm we introduce may pay NexVerde a referral fee. We always tell you before you meet them.
Questions about how we work? Ask us anytime. We'll put it in writing.
Your data stays yours
We use your energy data only for your project.
We never share it with vendors, installers or anyone else without your written permission.
We ask for read-only access, and we remove our access when the work ends.
Our vendor tools are built only from public records.
How to work with us
Start free. Pay only for the deeper work you want.
Free
Match & Ready
For any municipality, school district, or public agency.
A ranked list of the programs you can win
A readiness snapshot: where you stand, what's missing
The town gets in free. If it wants us to do the heavy lifting, it hires us for that. Firms pay for early notice of public bids. They get no inside information and no advantage.
Every community deserves the staff, or the partner, to claim its share.
Whether you're a town ready to stop leaving money on the table, or a delivery firm looking for real public-sector projects, let's talk.
