Energy

Knowlton Farms in Grafton and Boston solar energy firm BlueWave Solar are using a $100,000 grant to collaborate on an agricultural solar canopy to evaluate plant and crop growth under various solar tools and operating conditions.

Solect Energy, a Hopkinton developer of solar-energy systems, is launching an energy storage division, it announced Tuesday.

Framingham solar energy firm Ameresco will build a 2.47-megawatt solar energy system at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's El Paso, Texas, base, the agency's first renewable energy system.

A charging station for electric vehicles has opened at the Framingham service plaza off the Massachusetts Turnpike westbound.

Proponents of a major sales tax cut and supporters of a $15 minimum wage and a paid family and medical leave proposal say they've gathered more than enough signatures to advance their proposals.

Petersham town officials are again looking to take the burden of the 30,000-square foot, 118-year-old Nichewaug Inn and Academy property off its books.

From designing the first house to export electricity onto the power grid, Solar Design Associates has worked on projects large and small as the industry has evolved in fits and starts.

The farm of the future is in a nondescript greenhouse down a wooded residential road next to a site where the military once trained for the Vietnam War.

Central Massachusetts has several other woman-owned businesses with more than 100 employees, as compiled by the Worcester Business Journal research department.

Hudson solar company New England Clean Energy on Wednesday announced it has expanded its services to Cape Cod and has opened a new office in Rhode Island.