Energy

A123 Systems, which has offices in Hopkinton and Westborough, outlined its organizational alignment with The Wanxiang Group and announced the appointment of a new CEO, after Wanxiang purchased nearly all of A123's businesses in January.

First Wind, a Boston-based renewable energy company, announced Monday that it's begun solar projects in Millbury and Warren that will generate power for the University of Massachusetts Lowell and UMass Medical School in Worcester.

Formally known as hydraulic fracturing, this method has led to a sharp decline in the cost of natural gas by making it easier to mine and therefore making it much more plentiful.

Massachusetts is a national clean energy leader, and not by accident. The Patrick-Murray administration has made energy...

Residents of western Worcester County want rural Massachusetts to stay that way, according to a planning meeting Wednesday.

Digital Federal Credit Union signed an agreement Tuesday to provide up to $100 million in financing for residential solar loan projects.

The largest renewable energy procurement in state history, which involved the six Massachusetts electrical utilities teaming up to increase their buying power, will provide electricity at a fraction of the cost of Cape Wind.

Four utility companies have filed contracts with the state for the largest procurement of renewable energy in New England, the Patrick administration announced today.

The clean energy industry in Massachusetts added nearly 8,500 jobs and grew 11.8 percent over the past year, building on double-digit growth the year before, according to the Patrick administration.

Since coming to office in 2007 and 2009, respectively, both Gov. Deval Patrick and President Obama have...