Energy

Solect Energy announced this week that it has expanded its services beyond installation and into solar array operation and management services.

Worcester Business Journal was honored as the second best small business-to-business publication in the country on Saturday at the annual conference of the Alliance of Area Business Publications, while a WBJ editorial was named the best of the year at the same ceremony.

Hopkinton's Solect Energy has brought solar power to the farm house where transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau was born nearly 200 years ago.

Gov. Charlie Baker cited the need to plan for the impending retirement of nuclear and fossil fuel power sources as one reason he wants energy legislation to make it to his desk in coming weeks.

Proponents and opponents alike can agree: zoning reform is far from the sexiest issue to be debated on Beacon Hill and is not a subject that excites very many people.

House lawmakers voted near unanimously on Wednesday to require utilities to solicit and enter into long-term contracts for large-scale hydroelectric and offshore wind power.

Lawmakers dealt a blow last week to a bill that sought to rein in rising prescription drug costs through pricing disclosure mandates, issuing an order calling for further study on the matter.

A new inclusion to the energy bill would allow utilities to charge ratepayers some of the costs associated with bringing more renewable energy sources into their distribution networks.

Energy efficiency and renewable energy company Ameresco has secured a foothold in Britain and will be able to go after government contracts in the country.

Hudson-based Avidia Bank announced Monday that it has dropped its solar loan rate down to 1.89 percent for Massachusetts residents seeking to finance their residential solar systems.