Education
Upsala College.
Upsala College.
He represented the 3rd Barnstable District from 2001-2011. He lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He was unopposed for re-election in the 2006 elections, but was defeated by Falmouth Town Moderator David Vieira in 2010.
He is running for the same State Representative seat in 2016.
Patrick was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana from 1977 to 1979. In 2007 Representative Matt Patrick introduced two components to the Green Communities Acting.
The first raised the value if each kWh of renewable energy from wholesale to retail and the second introduced the concept of virtual Netto metering that eliminated the need for a direct connection to the renewable energy project Both facilitated renewable energy projects state-wide.
The Green Communities Acting was signed into law by Governor Deval Patrick in 2008.