Energy

On Monday, Worcester’s Internet service provider, Charter Communications, Inc., announced a new Spectrum Store will open at 68 Stafford St., becoming the second Spectrum location in the city.

Annie E. Fales Elementary School in Westborough, which began classes in November, is one of the first net-positive-energy public schools built in Massachusetts, according to a press release from the architect and the builder.

Framingham renewable energy company Ameresco announced Thursday a partnership with Wales-based Merthyr Tydfil Council, resulting in a $1.45-million energy conservation project.

Clean energy company Ameresco, of Framingham, has completed a lighting project as part of an ongoing project relationship with Hazelwood School District in St. Louis County.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute were awarded $499,509 from the U.S. Nuclear Regulation Commission to design nuclear microreactor facilities to be built on university campuses, according to a Thursday press release from WPI.

Framingham renewable energy company Ameresco has acquired Ohio-based energy services company Plug Smart, Ameresco announced on Tuesday.

Worcester's top taxpayers included a couple large players in the downtown block near Worcester Common, as well as several utility companies.

Environmental Testing and Research Laboratories, Inc., a water testing laboratory in Leominster, has had its license revoked by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, according to a Monday announcement from MassDEP.

Electric Hydrogen Co., a renewable energy firm with offices in Natick and California, signed a 20,400-square-foot lease expansion in Natick, according to a press release from Lincoln Property Co., the Texas-based real estate agency which completed the lease.

The last decade of advancements in clean energy technology and its adoption here and around the country has proved that 100 percent renewable energy is a realistic goal for Massachusetts, activists said Wednesday.