Energy

Rutland solar project developer Zero-Point Development and a New Jersey energy services firm have completed the construction of 31 megawatts of solar energy projects across Central and Southeast Massachusetts.

Electric utility Eversource has completed its $1.7 billion acquisition of Bridgeport's Aquarion Water Co. -- the only U.S.-based electric utility to also own a water utility.

Cape Wind is ceasing development of its wind farm and giving up its federal lease, according to the Cape Cod Times.

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.