Energy

The grandson of the founders of the Cumberland Gulf Group has been named company CEO, the Framingham-based firm announced Friday.

World Energy Solutions, a Worcester energy management service firm, announced Peter Londa was appointed Monday as chairman of its board of directors.

The Solar Energy Business Association of New England (SEBANE) has come out against certain provisions of pending state legislation addressing net metering and solar.

Local officials and representatives from Boston-based renewable energy company First Wind will mark the completion of a 14-megawatt solar project in Warren on June 23 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Energy management services firm World Energy Solutions of Worcester has landed a federal contract to buy close to 300 kilowatt hours of electricity throughout government properties in New Jersey, the company announced Thursday.

Devens-based AMSC said today that it has received a $40 million order for wind turbine electrical control systems (ECS).

As the Environmental Protection Agency this week took strict rule-making steps to require states to lower energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Tuesday that total U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2013 were 10 percent below 2005 levels.

Electric ratepayers in Unitil's service area in North Central Massachusetts will see a smaller rate increase after the Patrick administration cut the utility's request for a larger jump in its distribution rate.

Boston-based renewable energy company First Wind said Wednesday that a solar project in Millbury, which will provide power to University of Massachusetts campuses in Worcester and Lowell, is complete and commercial operations have begun.

Hudson-based New England Clean Energy, which designs and installs solar energy products for homes and businesses, has expanded into southern New Hampshire, its president Mark Durrenberger, announced Thursday.