Energy

Framingham renewable energy company Ameresco, Inc. has completed a $160 million street light modernization project in Chicago, the company announced in a press release Wednesday. 

Two days after Worcester City Council discussed the future of gasoline stations, the City received roughly $640,000 to construct new electric vehicle charging stations.

In a tight 6-5 vote Tuesday night, Worcester City Council voted against a zoning change which would ban new construction of gas stations.

The average gasoline price in Massachusetts is sitting at $3.39 per gallon of regular unleaded, 3 cents up from last week, according to a Monday report from the American Automobile Association Northeast.

National Grid energized 32 new electric vehicle charging ports on the UMass Chan Medical School campus in Worcester on Thursday, a $320,000 investment from the utility and the school.

Charles “Chip” Norton, director of Franklin Realty Advisors in Wellesley, has breathed new life into once boarded up buildings by developing them into Southbridge Innovation Center.

Framingham renewable energy company Ameresco has won the contract for the Slemon Park Microgrid, a renewable energy project being constructed in collaboration with Prince Edward Island (PEI) Energy Corp. in Canada.

House leaders are hoping to bring their offshore wind policy legislation to the floor for a vote "sooner rather than later," Rep. Jeff Roy said Wednesday as he detailed the ways in which the bill will seek to change how Massachusetts procures offshore wind energy and will boost support for the emerging industry here.

Central Massachusetts communities have received roughly $44.3 million in loans and $5.6 million in loan forgiveness grants from the state treasurer to go towards improvements to drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, according to a Thursday release from the office of State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, who is also chair of the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust.

Worcester-based Battery Resourcers, a lithium ion battery recycling and manufacturing company, on Wednesday announced its plans to revamp and construct a $43-million plant located in Georgia.