Energy

Nick Stavropoulos has been named the new chief safety advisor at Columbia Gas, which is headquartered in Westborough and has continued to struggle with high-visibility safety concerns.

Solar Wolf Energy will purchase the former Cabot House Furniture location in Auburn in an expansion where the company will add 40 employees.

State utility regulators have ordered a broad investigation into the management of National Grid in a rare move born of concerns that one of the state's largest electricity providers failed to communicate about the potential for severe delays in solar power installations.

Framingham energy firm Ameresco has been contracted to build a solar farm made of more than 71,000 panels on a brownfield site in Illinois.

Nexamp, a Boston solar and energy storage company, is opening its third Massachusetts office in Sturbridge.

New England utility company Eversource has purchased three parcels in an Auburn business park for just over $9 million.

Douglas clean energy installer Solar Wolf Energy has quietly opened new locations throughout the U.S. and now operates locations in four states.

As it kicked off what it hoped would be a week to celebrate "U.S. leadership in wind energy production," a national wind energy industry group is instead making the case against the federal government's new delay of the Vineyard Wind project.

Aquarion Water Company, the privately-owned utility servicing Oxford and Millbury and a subsidiary of utility company Eversource, has announced a change in leadership for its Central Massachusetts operations. 

Westborough utility company Columbia Gas and its parent company NiSource of Indiana announced Monday it settled all class-action lawsuits related to last September’s natural gas disaster in the Merrimack Valley for $143 million.