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Energy & Utilities

  • WBJ names the 2023 Best of Business winners

    Brad Kane Updated: January 9, 2023

    WBJ’s Best of Business awards are centered around one idea: referrals.

    Brad Kane Updated: January 9, 2023
  • Mass. gas prices are now lower than a year ago

    Timothy Doyle January 4, 2023

    The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Massachusetts dropped to $3.35 on Tuesday, three cents lower than a year ago on Jan. 3, 2022.

    Timothy Doyle January 4, 2023
  • Central Mass. splitting $1.6M for Green Community projects

    Kevin Koczwara January 4, 2023

    Sixteen Central Massachusetts received nearly $1.6 million total in Green Community Grants from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources for energy efficiency and clean energy projects. 

    Kevin Koczwara January 4, 2023
  • Baker admin sees benefits in funding Maine wind project

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 3, 2023

    A 1,000 megawatt onshore wind project planned for northern Maine and an associated transmission build-out "would provide benefits to Massachusetts and the region," the Mass. Department of Energy Resources said as it determined that it makes sense to

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 3, 2023
  • DPU approves wind contracts

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 3, 2023

    The Department of Public Utilities on Friday approved the contracts between both the Commonwealth Wind and Mayflower Wind offshore wind projects and Bay State utilities, rejecting Commonwealth Wind's request to scrap an agreement that it says would

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service January 3, 2023
  • Peterson Oil to face class action lawsuit for allegedly selling bad oil mix

    Kevin Koczwara December 29, 2022

    A lawsuit filed by several customers against Peterson Oil Service Inc. of Worcester accusing the company of knowingly delivering the wrong mix of heating oil was certified on Dec. 12 as a class action lawsuit by a Worcester Superior Court judge.

    Kevin Koczwara December 29, 2022
  • Energy & environment 2023 economic forecast: Better sources of power

    Kevin Koczwara Updated: December 26, 2022

    The energy industry is moving quickly toward development of environmentally friendly technologies

    Kevin Koczwara Updated: December 26, 2022
  • Our annual look forward

    Brad Kane Updated: December 26, 2022

    At the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what the following year would bring: a worldwide pandemic, an economic shutdown, the highest unemployment since the Great Depression, massive government intervention, empty offices, and the start of a

    Brad Kane Updated: December 26, 2022
  • WBJ's editorial staff predicts these 10 news events will happen in 2023

    Updated: December 26, 2022

    Every December, the WBJ Editorial staff predicts possible news events for the coming year. Here are our predictions and why they will happen.

    Updated: December 26, 2022
  • Mass. gas prices down another 10 cents

    Michael P. Norton from State House News Service December 19, 2022

    The average gas price now sits at $3.44 a gallon. That is down 38 cents from just a month ago ($3.82), and 5 cents higher than this time last year.

    Michael P. Norton from State House News Service December 19, 2022
  • Wind energy developer seeks to scrap power agreements

    Chris Lisinski from State House News Service December 19, 2022

    Declaring that the largest offshore wind farm in the state's pipeline cannot be financed and built under existing contracts, Commonwealth Wind on Friday asked Massachusetts regulators to scrap the agreements the company reached with utilities and

    Chris Lisinski from State House News Service December 19, 2022
  • Mass. nearly back to pre-pandemic job levels, as unemployment drops to 3.4%

    Chris Lisinski from State House News Service December 19, 2022

    Massachusetts employers added 17,300 jobs in November, labor officials announced Friday, putting the state within striking distance of returning to a pre-pandemic level of employment.

    Chris Lisinski from State House News Service December 19, 2022
  • Auburn solar co. moving to Worcester

    Timothy Doyle December 15, 2022

    Bright Planet Solar of Auburn is moving its New England Regional warehouse and sales office to Worcester, according to a Wednesday press release from Worcester real estate broker Kelleher and Sadowsky Associates, who brokered the company’s lease.

    Timothy Doyle December 15, 2022
  • Falling gas prices still higher than a year ago in Mass.

    Michael P. Norton | State House News Service December 13, 2022

    The average price of a gallon of gas fell 12 cents in Massachusetts over the past week.

    Michael P. Norton | State House News Service December 13, 2022
  • Marlborough energy company names new president

    Kevin Koczwara December 8, 2022

    Doble Engineering Co. of Marlborough has appointed Matthew Carrara as its new president.

    Kevin Koczwara December 8, 2022
  • State launches $50M fund to aid clean energy startups

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service December 8, 2022

    Clean energy technology companies that have promising products that could help the state meet its decarbonization goals but might not have the capital to make their ideas a reality have a new potential source of funding.

    Colin A. Young | State House News Service December 8, 2022

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Four Central Massachusetts hospitals have been working through some administrative difficulties and regulatory investigations this year. In August and September, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health launched investigations into Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Framingham Union Hospital, and Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick following hospital-related incidents and complaints submitted by the Massachusetts Nurses Association labor union. On Sept. 30, Gardner-based Heywood Healthcare, which operates hospitals in Gardner and Athol, announced its stand-alone exit from bankruptcy after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.