Energy

A Virginia firm has signed a 20-year contract with Brookfield town officials to finance, own and operate a 434-kilowatt solar energy project on a capped landfill behind the town transfer station.

Two solar power installation projects that will provide power to about 400 Sterling homes each year have been completed, according to the installing companies.

Unionized utility workers for National Grid in Massachusetts and Rhode Island have reached a tentative agreement with the company on a new contract, according to a statement from a union official.

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Saying a tough first quarter was expected, but that revenue still came in lower than anticipated, Framingham-based Ameresco Inc. recorded a decline in both revenue and net income for the period.

A123 Systems, which has sites in MetroWest, announced a rebranding of its advanced battery business in Westborough, five months after the company announced it would sell most of its assets to Chinese firm Wanxiang Group.

With the assistance of state incentives and a boom in solar installations last year, Massachusetts residents, businesses, municipalities and utilities now have the capacity to harness more than 250 megawatts of power from solar energy and Gov. Deval Patrick has achieved a 10-year goal four years early.

Solar installation company New England Clean Energy of Hudson has named Jim Elkind its CEO, the company announced today.

Worcester-based World Energy Solutions Inc. nearly doubled its sales in the fourth quarter of 2012, helping drive a 55-percent annual revenue gain compared to 2011.

Jump-starting the green energy industry in the United States was a goal of the Obama Administration when...