News
Date	Description	Division	Type
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	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
05.13.09	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
05.12.09	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