Energy

ISO New England Inc., the region's grid operator, is asking customers to dial down energy use as it expects electricity consumption to hit near-record levels this week.

Unitil Corp. is asking the state to approve a rate increase that would account for $6.7 million in revenue for the company — an 11.5-percent increase — but have a minimal impact on customers due to other charges ending.

Businesses often find federal standards for clean air cumbersome, but one Holliston company is thriving on them.

Last month's federal indictment of Sinovel Wind Group, the Chinese firm alleged to have stolen trade secrets...

One of the state's largest electricity companies has repeatedly failed to pay its workers what they're owed, a union official charged this week.

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher is being awarded a $40,000 grant to fund experimentation of a new biomass-to-energy process.

Worcester-based World Energy Solutions said it helped Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., procure more than 10 million kilowatt hours of electricity, for which the college secured renewable energy credits to cover the entire purchase.

As heat and humidity motivate people around New England to switch on air conditioning systems, the electrical power grid will be burdened with increasing demand even as the weather itself creates stresses on the equipment used to produce and transmit power.

Just weeks into his new job as executive director of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, former Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray is calling out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for mandating costly upgrades to a Millbury treatment plant that cleans and releases Worcester's sewage.

The Worcester Youth Center is one of six Bay State agencies to win grants for clean energy job training initiatives, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) announced.