News
Date	Description	Division	Type
01.22.10	Turbine maker Vestas attracted to university research in Mass. Mass High Tech reporter Jackie Noblett spoke with Vestas vice president and local general manager William Henrickson recently about the company’s local efforts.	MassCEC	Articles of Interest
01.21.10	Protonex fuel cell deal to net up to $6.4M Marlborough-based fuel cell firm Protonex Technology Corp. has landed a contract from the U.S. Army CECOM worth $1.85 million for the development and supply of advanced portable battery charger/auxiliary power units (APU) fuel cell systems.	MassCEC	Articles of Interest
01.21.10	MassCEC Announces Grants For Clean Energy Demonstration And Training Equipment The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is offering $500,000 in grants for vocational and technical high schools, colleges and universities, regional employment boards, union and labor organizations and community-based nonprofit organizations to purchase cl	Workforce Development	Announcements
01.21.10	Mass. to invest $6M in ARRA funds to green jobs Governor Deval Patrick announced today he plans to move $6 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to green jobs training and support. The funding is part of the governor’s Massachusetts Recovery Plan.	Workforce Development	Articles of Interest
01.19.10	Power couple in Falmouth A nearly 400-foot-tall wind turbine dedicated on a hill above the Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Facility may be a model for coupling Cape Cod's greatest energy resource with one of the region's greatest energy users.	Renewable Energy Generation	Coverage
01.19.10	FloDesign lands $35M Series B funds, names new CEO FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp. has closed on a $34.5 million Series B financing, in addition to naming Lars A. Andersen as its new CEO.	Investments in Clean Technology	Articles of Interest
01.15.10	Cleantech VCs offer rare bright light in '09 As venture capital investment in cleantech plummeted worldwide last year, Massachusetts firms bucked the trend, thanks to diversity in technology and several high-profile rounds. By Jackie Noblett, (Mass. High Tech)	MassCEC	Articles of Interest
01.15.10	Mass. eases growth of solar farms Solar energy systems could grow in a big way this year in Massachusetts — and not just in number. New state incentives and regulations are making it possible for the construction of large solar “farms” on tracts of land or very large rooftops, a scale fam	Renewable Energy Generation	Coverage
01.13.10	20 WIND ENERGY PROJECTS RECEIVE $2.5 MILLION IN GRANTS FROM MASSACHUSETTS CLEAN ENERGY CENTER The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (CEC) today announced grants supporting 20 new wind energy projects under the Commonwealth Wind Community-Scale Wind initiative.	Renewable Energy Generation	Announcements
01.12.10	MASSACHUSETTS CLEAN ENERGY CENTER KICKS OFF ENERGY EFFICIENCY SKILLS TRAINING AT LOCAL COLLEGES The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (CEC) today announced the first round of weatherization workshops under the center’s newly formed MassGREEN Initiative, which provides energy efficiency workforce training to citizens and businesses throughout the Com	Workforce Development	Announcements
01.08.10	Urban Wasteland: Tackling Energy Waste in Skyscrapers	MassCEC	Articles of Interest
01.08.10	EnerNOC looks to expand beyond its niche work EnerNOC Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Tim Healy has aggressive plans for 2010: expand its portfolio of companies ready to shut off power at peak periods, become a bigger player in the energy efficiency services market and turn a full year profit for t	Clean Energy Sector Development	Articles of Interest
01.08.10	Vocational tech schools take on green initiatives The best way to get a job in the green economy may just be to go back to school — voke school, that is. Solar learning labs, on-site wind turbines and state-of-the-art energy efficiency equipment located at several of Massachusetts’ vocational-technica	Workforce Development	Coverage
01.08.10	Konarka raises $24M in seventh funding round Konarka Technologies Inc. has raised $23.8 million in a Series G round of funding as well as a warrant sale, according to regulatory filings.	Investments in Clean Technology	Articles of Interest
01.08.10	Massachusetts bucked 2009's national decline in clean-tech investing Massachusetts cleantech companies saw a 21 percent year-over-year increase in venture capital investments in 2009, bucking a national trend that saw a decline in total outlays within the sector, according to a report released today by the Cleantech Group	Clean Energy Sector Development	Articles of Interest
01.01.10	Energy conservationist helps plan ‘Cash for Caulkers’ Steve Cowell CEO of Conservation Services Group, a Westborough nonprofit that helps make businesses and homes more energy efficientis is working on the federal program to retrofit and weatherize homes, called HOME STAR.	MassCEC	Articles of Interest
12.30.09	State offering fresh rebates for solar panels State officials yesterday unveiled a successor to the popular rebate program that made solar energy panels more affordable for Massachusetts homeowners and businesses. The $68 million Commonwealth Solar fund - originally expected to last three or fou	Renewable Energy Generation	Coverage
12.29.09	Patrick-Murray Administration Announces Next Phase of Solar Power Support Building on the success of the Commonwealth Solar rebate program, which issued awards for 23.5 megawatts (MW) of solar power in less than two years, the Patrick-Murray Administration today unveiled new rebate programs that continue the momentum toward Gov	Renewable Energy Generation	Announcements
12.22.09	DOE Grant Helps Company Address 'Achilles' Heel of Photovoltaics' A Boston-area technology developer's bold plans to cut the cost of solar energy in half is getting a big boost from the Energy Department.	Investments in Clean Technology	Articles of Interest
12.17.09	Worcester moves to become cleantech hub Cleantech leaders in Central Massachusetts are looking toward their biotech brethren in Worcester as a model for bringing more industry development to the region.	Clean Energy Sector Development	Coverage
12.04.09	State and Federal Officials Celebrate Groundbreaking of Wind Blade Test Center BOSTON - Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - Federal and state officials today celebrated the groundbreaking of a Wind Technology Testing Center that will become the nation's first facility capable of testing blades up to 90 meters long that are integral to the f	Clean Energy Sector Development	Announcements
12.01.09	MARKEY ATTENDS GROUNDBREAKING OF WIND TECHNOLOGY TESTING CENTER Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey attended the ground breaking of MassCEC's WTTC in Charlestown, Mass.	Clean Energy Sector Development	Coverage
12.01.09	$68m in solar rebates goes fast, State readying new plan for Jan. A $68 million state fund to provide sizable rebates to homeowners and business owners who install solar panels was expected to last three or four years. But the program - offering homeowners rebates that averaged more than $13,000 - proved so popular that	Renewable Energy Generation	Coverage
11.27.09	Sour economy, hiring fears undercutting green-job dreams “Business owners have to come to terms that they will have work that sustains new employment,” said Clean Energy Center Executive Director Patrick Cloney. “We are trying to send very clear signals that Massachusetts is in clean energy for the long term an	Workforce Development	Coverage
11.25.09	FCC ANNOUNCES PANELISTS FOR NOV. 30 FIELD HEARING AT MIT ON ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Panels on Smart Grid Communications and the Energy Information Economy will be featured at the Federal Communications Commission’s field hearing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on how broadband can help the nation achieve its energy and envir	MassCEC	Announcements