Energy

National Grid, the largest electric utility in Central Massachusetts, has joined Eversource Energy and two other energy firms as co-developers of a large-scale effort to expand existing pipeline infrastructure that will bring up to 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas to the region for electricity generation.

It was a company that was flying high until, rather suddenly, its numbers began taking a southward dive.

Sevcon of Southborough saw a 10-percent gain in revenue in the first quarter of its new fiscal year, as more of its customers bought the company's products as part of their hybrid and electric vehicles.

The private company that provides water to Millbury and Oxford is passing along savings from a revised tax classification to nearly 19,000 households, including customers in those two Central Massachusetts towns.

Milder weather and lower demand led to drops of more than 50 percent in natural gas and wholesale power prices in December, the region's grid operator said.

Annual net income increased 14 percent for New Hampshire-based power company Unitil Corp., driven by higher natural gas and electric sales, according to an earnings statement released Wednesday.

Solar installations on city apartment buildings and strategies to reduce energy bills top the priorities of new state Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton, who listened to environmental advocates on Tuesday morning and discussed his focus on "energy justice." A News Service story on Tuesday about state energy and environmental policy mischaracterized the financial relationship between Cape Wind and the utilities National Grid and Northeast Utilities. After Cape Wind failed to meet deadlines, the utilities canceled their agreements to purchase power from the planned wind farm. Cape Wind has disputed the validity of the contract termination.

The benefits and risks of the "dramatic transformation" underway in the region's energy landscape will be the focus of a media briefing Wednesday.

The recent announcement by two of Massachusetts' largest utilities — National Grid and Northeast Utilities — to...

National Grid began a 15,000-customer smart meter pilot program in Worcester on Thursday, with new infrastructure and pricing at the heart of the remote metering pilot that could spell the future for energy distribution in Massachusetts.