Energy

Declaring that the largest offshore wind farm in the state's pipeline cannot be financed and built under existing contracts, Commonwealth Wind on Friday asked Massachusetts regulators to scrap the agreements the company reached with utilities and reopen a new round of bidding.

Massachusetts employers added 17,300 jobs in November, labor officials announced Friday, putting the state within striking distance of returning to a pre-pandemic level of employment.

Bright Planet Solar of Auburn is moving its New England Regional warehouse and sales office to Worcester, according to a Wednesday press release from Worcester real estate broker Kelleher and Sadowsky Associates, who brokered the company’s lease.

The average price of a gallon of gas fell 12 cents in Massachusetts over the past week.

Doble Engineering Co. of Marlborough has appointed Matthew Carrara as its new president.

Clean energy technology companies that have promising products that could help the state meet its decarbonization goals but might not have the capital to make their ideas a reality have a new potential source of funding.

The average cost for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Massachusetts has fallen by 10 cents in the last week, now at $3.66.

Massachusetts ranked second in the country, behind California, in the latest State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have created a formula for a new jet fuel to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and increase the range of aircraft.

A commission that spent the last 11 months studying ways to help the state meet its emissions reduction requirements by shifting to cleaner buildings and addressing heating fuels that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions released its final recommendations Wednesday, but was not able to come to consensus around a timeline for phasing out new fossil fuel heating equipment.