Energy

Years of talks about making renewable resources a bigger part of Massachusetts' energy consumption started to pay off this year, when the state government passed a new law with a strong emphasis on renewables.

Predicting the short-term future isn't terribly difficult. Preparing for it is.

Milford medical device maker Waters Corp. has awarded a performance bonus worth up to $1.5 million to President and CEO Christopher O'Connell.

Eversource Energy is moving into the offshore wind energy picture in Massachusetts.

Worcester City Manager Edward Augustus has requested the City Council sign off on $300,000 worth of eminent domain takings that will help protect the city's watershed.

Subsidiaries of Saint-Gobain Corp. have settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and will invest in environmental upgrades, the EPA announced Tuesday.

The largest regional transit authority in Massachusetts has purchased three 40-foot buses that produce no tailpipe emissions from the company that sold similar buses to Worcester in 2013.

Joseph's House, a 140-unit apartment complex in Fitchburg, has received $290,000 in upgrades through Unitil and the MassSave program.

Framingham's Ameresco has begun construction of a 2.4 megawatt solar array being installed for the town of Sturbridge.

The Gardner Redevelopment Authority and the City of Gardner are undertaking a $1.8-million cleanup of a former metals facility as the groups continue to prepare the area for commercial investment.