Energy

Ameresco, of Framingham, has completed a 3-megawatt solar installation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP), in a project that will help generate close to 20 percent of the airport's power needs, the airport announced Thursday.

Pepper's Fine Catering and Events has become a Certified Green Restaurant thanks to ongoing sustainability efforts, the company announced Tuesday.

The clean energy sector now employs nearly 99,000 workers in Massachusetts, after five consecutive years of growth, according to a report out Tuesday from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

Zero-emission vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles will likely make up more than 15 percent of vehicle sales by 2025, under proposed state regulations that would require Massachusetts to accelerate its embrace of electric vehicles.

Massachusetts lawmakers have settled into their winter recess, but Senate President Stanley Rosenberg says they are continuing to discuss a deal to raise caps on solar power and enacting a bill during informal sessions that run through December is not out of the question.

These Central Massachusetts businesses filed Incorporation papers with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office from Aug. 17-31. Listed below are the corporate name, address, ZIP & president.

Westborough-based eClinicalWorks is a company near the top of its field. It's one of the top vendors of electronic health records systems for U.S. doctors' offices and a big player in the development of mobile tools that let patients track their vital signs and communicate with doctors.

Local stakeholders are in the process of re-pitching a $34-million downtown Framingham satellite campus of Massachusetts Bay Community College to the Baker Administration after a host of community college capital projects across the state have been put on hold.

Launched in 2008 with much fanfare by the Patrick Administration, the Massachusetts Life Science Center -- a 10-year, $1-billion investment in catalyzing growth in the life science industry in the state -- has achieved some measurable success.

When consumers look at beer and soda bottles on store shelves, they see several brands competing for the same dollars, but to Central Massachusetts firms like Polar Beverages and Wachusett Brewing Co., all those bottles and cans mean money.