Josh Landes, WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Summary
Politicians from around the state gathered in Pittsfield, Massachusetts today as Berkshire Medical Center was awarded grant money.
$670,000 of state funding was awarded to Berkshire Medical Center as part of a grant program promoted by the Republican Baker-Polito administration.
“Today’s event was announcing over $9 million for nine hospitals throughout the commonwealth to upgrade the resiliency of their facilities," said Matthew Beaton, the Secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. He said the money is coming out of the state’s Community Clean Energy Resiliency Initiative, which is bringing $40 million to similar projects around the state.
“If there’s a large scale power outage, they’re able to black start and island themselves essentially, to be able to keep critical facilities and critical operations up and running during times of electricity shortage or electricity drop out in the regular grid,” Beaton told WAMC. He praised the BMC grant application, saying "it just was the perfect fit, it was a very well done application that was very thoughtful and very real."
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