Energy

The owner of a Fitchburg private wastewater treatment company and an engineering company has been sentenced to three years of probation and other penalties for falsifying wastewater supplies and test results.

Utilities would need to ramp up renewable energy purchases, the state could expand its support of offshore wind, and commercial solar endeavors would be freed from restrictions, under legislation the Senate plans to take up.

ExxonMobil's construction on a six-mile water pipeline to address contaminants from a Charlton gas station will begin about a year later than expected.

Framingham renewable energy firm Ameresco has signed a $7-million contract with Atlanta to improve the energy efficiency of 19 city-owned buildings.

Framingham-based renewable energy firm Ameresco has completed a 947.7-kilowatt solar facility in a rural Connecticut town.

A 4,200-panel solar array at Harrington HealthCare's Webster facility is expected to save the hospital and Webster-area community more than $1 million.

Worcester is looking to acquire more than 48 acres of land in Princeton for $180,000 to protect its water supply.

Four new clean energy bills promoting energy storage, solar development and electric vehicle sales have cleared the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy,

Framingham energy efficiency and renewable energy firm Ameresco has been chosen by one of the Northwest's largest public school districts for a $2.1 million efficiency and infrastructure project.

Vineyard Wind, a project backed by a Danish fund management company, has been chosen by the Baker administration and state utilities to build an 800 megawatt offshore wind farm off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.