Renewable Energy

WMECo Launches Silver Lake Solar Project in Pittsfield

June 21, 2010
MA ENB

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 21, 2010 – Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECo) launches construction of its inaugural solar project today in Pittsfield. The facility, at the William Stanley Business Park on Silver Lake Boulevard, is the first and largest of its kind in New England and the first step in WMECo’s large-scale solar program.

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MassCEC Announces Grants For 18 New Wind Energy Projects

June 9, 2010
MA ENB

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) today announced grants supporting 18 new wind energy projects under the Commonwealth Wind Community Scale Wind Initiative.

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DOER Files Final Solar Carve-Out Revisions

June 8, 2010
MA ENB

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) filed its final Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard  (RPS) Class I revisions (225 CMR 14.00) pertaining to the Solar Carve-Out program implementation. DOER filed the regulations with the Clerks of the Senate and the House of Representatives, who shall refer the regulation to the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, [...]

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What Are SRECs?

May 26, 2010
MA ENB

In order to understand SRECs (Solar Renewable Energy Certificates), it makes sense to first understand RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates) in general. You may also hear RECs called as “Renewable Energy Credits,” “Green Tags,” or “TRCs” (for Tradable Renewable Certificates). Essentially, they all refer to the same thing.

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NGRID Expected To File Cape Wind PPA Today

May 10, 2010
MA ENB

National Grid announced last Friday that it has signed the first power purchase agreement with Cape Wind. The agreement is expected to be filed today, at the Massachusetts DPU. Under the agreement, National Grid will buy clean power from the nation’s first large-scale, off-shore wind farm, which is expected to come online by the end [...]

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DOI Approves First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm

April 28, 2010
MA ENB

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has approved the Cape Wind project, the first U.S. offshore wind farm of its kind. Cape Wind is a 130-turbine wind power project on submerged federal lands in Nantucket Sound off the Massachusetts coast. Located in a 25-square-mile section of Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound, the Cape Wind [...]

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