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- Developers urge Mayor Walsh to clarify BRA process (4/1/14)
Boston’s new mayor, Martin J. Walsh, has repeatedly promised that the city’s building boom would continue under his administration, even as he vowed a top-to-bottom overhaul of its chief planning agency.
- Solar installer says it’s expanding, hiring up to 240 (3/21/14)
Vivint Solar, the residential solar installer based in Holyoke, announced today that it will be moving into the Taunton, Malborough and Holyoke service areas, and hiring as many as 240 employees in the new locations.
- Pilgrim’s owner pushes for market changes to help keep the nuclear plant open (3/13/14)
A number of Cape Cod protesters trekked to the State House on Monday, calling for the closure of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. But it’s more likely that the reactor in Plymouth will be done in by market forces — not activism.
- Why newly formed Blue Sky Towers is spending $80M building cell towers (3/13/14)
With $80 million in equity and debt financing at his disposal, the CEO of new Massachusetts firm Blue Sky Towers LLC said he hopes to deal with some of the mobile phone industry's most vexing issues: the need for speed and a reliable connection
- Mass. moves up to fifth place in state rankings of solar power capacity (3/11/14)
The Bay State is now playing with the big boys in the solar industry: We’ve moved into fifth place, in terms of total solar capacity, of all 50 states.
- Guilty conviction for Pilgrim protesters won’t quiet questions about plant’s future (3/23/14)
The Cape Downwinders trial may be over, but the stressful relationship between the Pilgrim nuclear reactor’s owner and its critics on Cape Cod won’t be healed anytime soon.
- Three Mass. firms to help build Mexican solar project (3/21/14)
Three Massachusetts firms have entered into a partnership with two Mexican companies to build a $92 million 30-megawatt solar electric project in Mexico that's being billed as one of the largest in Latin America.
- Loci Controls gets $765,000 to commercialize clean energy tech (3/13/14)
The money will be used to commercialize the startup's hardware and software technology for automating the harvesting of methane gas from landfills.
- Cape Wind announces cable contracts (3/13/14)
Cape Wind announced today that it was awarded two contracts for transmission cables for the $2.5 billion offshore wind farm.
- Columbia Gas rate hike is the latest sign of New England’s pipeline constraints (3/3/14)
The ripple effects from New England’s position at the end of the pipeline continue to add up — and natural gas customers won’t be happy about this math.