Energy

The city of Worcester has been highlighted as one of the state's renewable energy leaders in a new report from the nonprofit Environment Massachusetts.

Tents pitched by pipeline opponents, who camped overnight after walking 43 miles to Boston, sprawled across the State House steps ahead of a planned rally Monday.

Marlborough's Concentric Energy Advisors will be in charge of auctioning off the Tennessee Valley Authority's incomplete Bellefonte Nuclear Plant near Hollywood, Ala., by this October.

With growing signs of downtown revitalization, city and business officials confront subsidized parking rates to improve infrastructure.

Framingham-based Ameresco has received a $72.2-million contract to improve the energy efficiency of four federal buildings in Washington, D.C., including the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Boston-Power has entered into a strategic cooperation with SPI Energy as that company is set to release $500 million in bonds towards building battery capacity for electric vehicles.

An energy bill passed 39-0 by the Senate Thursday evening would require the solicitation of long-term contracts for at least 2,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2027 as part of an effort to diversify the state's energy mix and comply with greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements.

World Energy Efficiency Services, an energy efficiency services company based in Worcester, has launched a new solar division that will carry clients from the planning stage through final installation.

The Massachusetts Senate plans an aggressive approach to bolstering the state's power supplies with renewable resources like hydropower and offshore wind.

Framingham's Ameresco has completed an 18.6 megawatt (MW) direct current solar facility built for the U.S. Army in Maryland.