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Clean Energy Internships

Browning the Green Space
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Are you passionate about fighting climate change, addressing environmental harms, or advancing a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world? Have you wondered whether your studies, skills and experiences could help you get a job working on these issues? If this describes you, keep reading for a great opportunity this summer to get your foot in the door and explore jobs making a positive impact.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (“MassCEC”) seeks to increase diversity within the Commonwealth’s clean energy workforce and create career pathways for Massachusetts college and clean energy certificate students that lead to greater economic stability. In doing so, MassCEC is interested in ensuring Pell grant recipients, First-Generation College students and students from Environmental Justice neighborhoods or Disadvantaged communities as defined here are exposed to career pathways and opportunities in clean energy. 

Browning the Green Space (“BGS”) is a coalition of leaders and organizations powering a just energy transition in the Northeast by creating jobs, building wealth, and reducing energy burden in Black and Brown communities. BGS is partnered with MassCEC to recruit underrepresented students for internships with clean energy companies and environmental nonprofits during the summer 2024 cohort of the MassCEC Clean Energy Internship Program. In addition to their internship, participating students will also receive access to career development workshops and opportunities to connect with peers at other companies throughout the summer. 

These paid positions are funded by the MassCEC. To participate in the program, candidates must have completed a minimum of twenty-four (24) college credits and be currently attending a Massachusetts community college, four-year college, graduate college, or a recent graduate who is considering career opportunities in clean energy (recent graduates are defined as college students who graduated undergraduate or graduate college with a graduation date of May 2023 through June 2024. Law School students, Ph.D. candidates, or students who have been previously enrolled or matriculated in a Ph.D. or Ed.D. program, are not eligible to participate in the Program). For more information on the MassCEC Internship Program visit www.masscec.com/clean-energy-internship-program.

If you are interested in learning more, please complete our intake form and upload your resume at: bit.ly/SIPS-student-intake If you have any questions, please contact alisha@browningthegreenspace.org. 

BGS is recruiting on behalf of several clean energy companies and nonprofit organizations in the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors for paid summer internships focused on: 

  • Marketing and Communications
  • Organizing and Community Engagement
  • Business Development
  • Project Management
  • Public Policy and Advocacy

Most of these positions have in person and remote working options. Below is a sampling of the organizations who have open positions this summer.

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

  • The Green Engineer, Concord: The Green Engineer, Inc. is a sustainable design consulting firm with expertise in cost effective, high-performance design. We work with architects, builders, commercial owners, non-profits, and the government sector to provide consulting services around sustainable building design, LEED certification, WELL certification, Fitwel, Passive House, energy modeling, and more.
  • Sunwealth, Cambridge: Sunwealth is a clean energy investment firm on a mission to change who benefits from renewable energy by changing the way we invest in it. We envision a future where renewable energy is accessible, affordable, and inclusive.
  • BlocPower, Boston: A climate technology company that analyzes, finances and upgrades homes and buildings and seeks to be a one–stop-shop making America smarter, greener, and healthier. 
  • Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Boston: A regional nonprofit that works to accelerate energy efficiency, electrification, and grid flexibility in the building sector as a core strategy to reduce climate pollution and build an affordable, sustainable, and resilient energy future.

Climate and Cleantech Startups

  • Julius Education, Somerville: A startup supporting green infrastructure companies by attracting new talent and upskilling current talent for the future of work.
  • NewGrid, Somerville: NewGrid is a MA-based cleantech software startup set on making the bulk electricity grid more efficient, reliable, and green energy friendly.
  • Azolla Ventures, Boston: founded by Prime Coalition, a nonprofit organization that partners with philanthropists and other mission-driven investors to support market-driven innovations designed to catalyze, deepen, or accelerate solutions for climate change.

Climate Nonprofits

  • Green Energy Consumers Alliance, Boston: A nonprofit that harnesses our power as consumers to speed the transition to a low-carbon future.
  • Emerald Cities Collaborative, Boston: A national nonprofit that pursues a high-road approach to greening our cities, building resilient regional economies and strengthening our democracy.
  • Northeast Clean Energy Council, Somerville: A regional nonprofit dedicated to leading the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and a diverse climate economy by promoting the widespread adoption of clean energy and climate technologies.
  • New Bedford Ocean Cluster, New Bedford: The NBOC works collaboratively with a range of private sector, public sector and academic partners to establish New Bedford as the leading ocean economy on the East Coast. The NBOC Aims To: Create a New Bedford maritime business network by serving both as a clearinghouse for business-to-business interaction and the leading convener of the maritime businesses, leveraging the networks, the port’s unique infrastructure and maritime know-how to attract investment and support the formation and growth of ocean economy businesses.
  • Pioneer Valley Habitat For Humanity, Northampton: Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity’s goal is to make home ownership possible for low-income families in Hampshire and Franklin counties. Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity is committed to increasing racial, class, and gender equity and is dedicated to dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized social identities from achieving home ownership.