Energy

Westborough-based NEC Energy Solutions on Tuesday introduced a new energy storage system that allows its customers to offer new energy management services to their commercial and industrial enterprises.

Westborough energy services firm NORESCO will provide energy and water efficiency and capital infrastructure upgrades at two prisons on the East Coast in a $49-million contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

As part of a push for a regional energy transmission system, the premier of Nova Scotia on Monday urged Gov. Charlie Baker to "erase the border" between his province and Massachusetts.

In the midst of a summer devoid of significant rainfall, all of Massachusetts is now at least "abnormally dry" and the portion feeling the effects of a "severe drought" or worse has expanded to cover almost 75 percent of the state.

National Grid and Eversource Energy this week withdrew applications for long-term gas capacity contracts in the wake of a Supreme Judicial Court decision, but a new letter to policymakers reinforces the utilities' commitment to the Access Northeast pipeline project.

The company leading the push for a major natural gas pipeline project that would serve New England appeared undeterred Tuesday by the SJC's ruling on passing costs to customers.

Eversource, a gas and electric utility, has withdrawn its application for natural gas transportation and storage contracts, which would run along a proposed pipeline called Access Northeast.

Hopkinton solar installer Solect Energy has completed a 175.8-kilowatt rooftop array at the headquarters of a Norwood company.

Standing in front of a patch of strawberry plants about 10 inches shorter than they would be during a wetter summer, Gov. Charlie Baker and other state officials on Thursday urged Massachusetts residents to conserve water and support their local farmers.

The Supreme Judicial Court dealt a blow on Wednesday to Gov. Charlie Baker's efforts to increase the flow of natural gas to the region, ruling that utilities cannot ask electric ratepayers to help finance the construction of gas pipelines.