WORCESTER — The city announced Wednesday that City View Discovery School has been awarded a $2.73 million state grant to overhaul its heating system, the largest energy-efficiency grant Worcester has received for a single school building.
The award comes through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Green School Works program, which distributed $19 million in May across nine school districts statewide to modernize aging school infrastructure. The program is funded by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Worcester’s grant, awarded jointly to Worcester Public Schools and the city’s Department of Sustainability and Resilience, will fund a phased project replacing City View’s original 1991 heating system with an electric air-water heat pump system, along with insulation and airflow upgrades. Existing gas boilers will stay in place as backup during extreme cold. The project is expected to wrap up by the end of 2027…