Energy

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.

Devens-based AMSC, continuing to struggle two years after losing its largest customer, pared its quarterly and annual losses while posting a 14-percent gain in revenue for its 2013 fiscal year, which ended March 31.

Energy efficiency company Ameresco of Framingham has acquired a British consultancy, giving Ameresco a foothold in a new market, the company announced.

In a national ranking of clean energy technology leadership, Massachusetts comes in just behind California, according to a new report.

China's highest court next week will hear Devens-based AMSC's software copyright infringement cases against two Chinese firms, one of which allegedly refused to pay for products it had ordered from the maker of products for wind energy and the electric grid.

World Energy Solutions of Worcester saw a 27-percent increase in revenue during the first quarter of this year, but lost nearly $1 million after an accounting change that defers some revenue recognition after reporting sales and commission expenses, the company said.