News and Announcements
Date	Description	Division	Type
09.21.09	Diplomacy opens a portal to profit: Boston’s consulates focus on business Boston has long been one of a handful of American cities with a significant foreign consular corps, hosting full-time and honorary consuls general from 55 countries. Now, thanks to its combination of globally renowned technology companies and universities	Clean Energy Sector Development	Articles of Interest
09.16.09	Grant to fund green energy courses BROCKTON — Massasoit, Bristol and Cape Cod community colleges partnered in proposing the Green Energy Design and Building (GEDB) Project, which was one of only six in the state awarded a highly competitive Clean Energy Workforce Training Capacity Building	Workforce Development	Articles of Interest
09.04.09	Educated energy: Valley Tech among schools turning to green studies Valley Tech has received a $150,460 Clean Energy Workforce Development Grant from the state, one of six organizations selected from 38 applicants to receive the competitive grant and the only high school among the recipients. The Clean Energy Workforce De	MassCEC	Articles of Interest
09.01.09	Mass. green jobs grants awarded The grants announced Tuesday total $1 million, bringing the total amount of green job training grants awarded through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to $4 million. The recipients include Blackstone Valley Vocational Regional School District in Upto	Workforce Development	Announcements
09.01.09	Governor Patrick announces efforts to boost commonwealth’s clean energy workforce Newest round of grants is part of nearly $4 million invested since April to expand training for jobs in Massachusetts’s growing “green” energy sector	Workforce Development	Announcements
07.23.09	ATMC lab could be business boon Thanks to a $250,000 grant, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center unveiled its newest offering Wednesday.	MassCEC	Coverage
07.15.09	Patrick Administration Announces Selection of Springfield Technical Community College Springfield Technical Community College will serve as a hub for a statewide network of programs to develop, train and maintain a cutting edge “green” workforce that will speed the growth of the Commonwealth’s energy efficiency sector while expanding job o	Workforce Development	Announcements
07.15.09	GreenRay lands $2M for affordable solar power GreenRay Inc., the Lincoln startup developing affordable solar energy for the residential market, has closed on a $2 million Series A financing round. California’s Quercus Trust and New York’s 21Ventures co-led the round.	Investments in Clean Technology	Articles of Interest
06.25.09	Webinar: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Opportunities for Massachusetts The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) hosted a web meeting on Thursday, June 25, 2009, at 10:00. We discussed the information that had been released about current open funding opportunities through	MassCEC	Announcements
06.09.09	Monday June 8th Bidders Webinar Proceedings The Below links are the presentation used during the optional webinar teleconference held Monday June 8th for the Workforce Capacity Building RFP, and a list of registered participants for the webinar. The CEC and Commonwealth Corporation encourage appl	MassCEC	Announcements
06.01.09	Take Our ARRA Funding Survey In an effort to take full advantage of the ARRA opportunities, the Clean Energy Center, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Energy Resources are trying to keep track of all of the applications for ARRA funding be	MassCEC	Announcements
05.31.09	'Green' jobs lining up on horizon Since she was laid off, Norma Shulman of Framingham has decided she has one more chance in her working life to change careers. She plans to make that switch count for something. Shulman, 63, a technical writer, lost her job at Bose Corp. in Framingham	Workforce Development	Articles of Interest
05.21.09	Clean Energy Workforce Development Forum Thursday, June 4th, 2009 9:30 AM—2:00 PM University of Massachusetts Lowell Wannalancit Building 600 Suffolk Street Lowell, MA 01854	MassCEC	Announcements
05.20.09	Patrick Administration Announces Grants to Build Capacity of Clean Energy Workforce Development Prog Funding will help to develop and expand programs at high schools, colleges and universities and community-based organizations.	Workforce Development	Announcements
05.13.09	Longer than the USS Constitution, taller than the Bunker Hill Monument, and coming to Charlestown Massachusetts will receive $25 million in federal stimulus money for testing wind turbine blades up to nearly 300 feet long at a facility to be built in Charlestown, according to government officials.	Clean Energy Sector Development	Coverage
05.13.09	Wind Could Power New Jobs In Mass. Today Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Governor Deval Patrick announced $25 million in federal stimulus money to build the largest testing site for wind turbine blades in the world.	Clean Energy Sector Development	Coverage
05.12.09	Feds: Mass. to get $25M for wind blade test center Massachusetts once boasted some of the fastest clipper ships in the world, and the state is again aiming to be a leader in harnessing the wind. — this time by hosting the nation's largest wind turbine blade testing facility.	Clean Energy Sector Development	Coverage
05.12.09	SECRETARY CHU, GOVERNOR PATRICK ANNOUNCE $25 MILLION FOR MASSACHUSETTS WIND TECHNOLOGY TESTING CTR. Boston, MA – Tuesday, May 12, 2009 – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Governor Deval Patrick today announced the Department of Energy’s intent to award Massachusetts $25 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate	MassCEC	Announcements
05.08.09	Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants Block Grants for Massachusetts Communities with Populations Less than 35,000.	MassCEC	Announcements
04.14.09	Patrick Administration Announces “Pathways out of Poverty” Green Collar Job Training Grants As part of Governor Patrick’s Massachusetts Recovery Plan to secure the state’s economic future, Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles today announced five grants totaling $1 million for workforce training programs to help low-income	MassCEC	Announcements
02.27.09	Patrick Administration Solicits Proposals for New Energy Efficiency Skills Training Initiative Clean Energy Center seeks multi-disciplinary consortium to develop and deliver energy efficiency workforce training in at least three locations across the state.	MassCEC	Announcements
12.14.08	Raising capital for rays of energy To date, 1366, which traces its roots to MIT research, has raised $12 million from Polaris and North Bridge Venture Partners, another Waltham venture capital firm. Wakonda, which spun out from the Rochester Institute of Technology, has raised $9.5 million	Investments in Clean Technology	Articles of Interest
12.10.08	Sand, gravel -- and now, sun Travelers on Interstate 93 might spy a bit of sparkle coming off the roof of Boston Sand & Gravel Co's maintenance facility in Charlestown. The company recently unveiled a 109 kilowatt solar-power system -- the largest to be built under the state's new Co	MassCEC	Articles of Interest
12.08.08	Patrick Administration Solicits 'Green Collar' Employment Training Proposals Pathways out of Poverty grants will build job skills among low-income workers, expanding the “green” workforce for Bay State’s growing clean energy sector.	Workforce Development	Announcements
10.28.08	The Search for a Better Battery Seems Everlasting Lilliputian Systems Inc., a well-funded, Wilmington, Mass., start-up with a technique for making a ceramic fuel cell, is showing potential customers a butane-fired, matchbook-sized prototype that it says will be ready for shipment late next year.	MassCEC	Articles of Interest