The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) today announced the state’s clean energy sector grew by 4% between 2016 and 2017, employing a total of 109,226 clean energy workers.

The Baker-Polito Administration awarded $20 million in grants to 26 projects that will develop the Commonwealth’s energy storage market and deliver benefits to Massachusetts ratepayers and the electrical grid. Recognizing the potential benefits energy storage holds for the Commonwealth, paired with the strength of submitted projects, the Administration doubled the available funding from the initial…

Governor Charlie Baker signed comprehensive energy diversity legislation into law at the State House with Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito.

This is the first legislation of its kind that includes a specific carve out for offshore wind at a scale necessary to create a viable market in the United States.

DONG Energy has agreed to take over RES Americas Developments Inc.’s (RES) more than 1000-MW newly assigned development project rights off the coast of Massachusetts. At the offshore wind auction held by BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) on January 29, 2015, RES secured the rights to develop one of the two leases that were…

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rick Sullivan and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) CEO Alicia Barton recently met with Massachusetts-based clean energy companies during the Canada Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) conference to promote the Commonwealth’s growing clean energy sector as part of a four-day trade mission to Canada led by Governor Deval Patrick. The Massachusetts…

A report from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center estimates there are now more than 64,000 people in the state working in the so-called “clean energy” economy, about 1.5% of all jobs in the state. The report identified 4,909 clean energy companies across the state. The report said those companies saw a 6.7% increase in jobs…