MILLBRAE, Calif : Stem, Inc. (“Stem” or “the Company”), a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven energy storage systems, today announced the Company has been awarded a project mandate to provide energy storage solutions to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) in Greater Boston, a public agency that provides wholesale water and sewer services reaching […]
Shell and EDPR Win Massachusetts’ Second Offshore Wind Tender
Mayflower Wind joint venture’s 804-megawatt project will sell power at a lower price than Vineyard Wind’s landmark development. Shell has its first concrete offshore wind project in U.S. waters. Massachusetts on Wednesday selected an 804-megawatt project backed by Mayflower Wind, a joint venture of Shell and EDP Renewables, as the winner of its second offshore […]
Bay State Wind Submits Bid to Build Offshore Wind Farm in Massachusetts
Ørsted and Eversource proposal leverages project maturity, holistic approach to development and local stakeholder engagement; Provides strong economic benefits and clean and reliable green energy to Bay State residents BOSTON: Bay State Wind, a 50/50 joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource, today submitted its proposal in response to the commonwealth’s second Request for Proposals (RFP) […]
Ameresco Plots Larger Role for Solar and Storage
The microgrids and energy-efficiency specialist says the number of viable markets for on-site solar and storage is growing. Ameresco is best known as a commercial and industrial energy services company, or ESCO, competing against giants like Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson Controls and a host of other national and regional providers on HVAC retrofits, LED lighting upgrades, […]
Massachusetts Storage Market Imperiled by Requirement to Buy New Utility Meters
Should solar customers have to pay for a new meter to measure their generation, or is their own smart inverter good enough? Massachusetts rolled out a new incentive last year to spur solar and energy storage adoption, but installers are worried that a technical requirement could foil the goals of the program. The Solar Massachusetts […]
Massachusetts policy leads Stem towards 28.2MWh of solar co-located energy storage
Policy in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts favouring the use of clean energy during peak times has brought behind-the-meter energy storage company Stem Inc into the state’s utility-scale solar-plus-storage market. The commercial and industrial (C&I) system provider has partnered with private equity firm Syncarpha Capital Partnership to develop 28.2MWh of large-scale energy storage projects, co-located with […]
Stem Steps Into Grid-Scale Storage With Partnership in Massachusetts
The commercial storage pioneer is building bigger battery systems than ever before. Stem is jumping from behind-the-meter energy storage into the grid-connected battery realm. The decade-old startup, known for using batteries to help commercial customers manage demand charges, just stepped to the front of the meter market. Stem will build 28.2 megawatts/28.2 megawatt-hours of solar-paired […]
Ameresco Helps Town of Westport, Massachusetts Transform Closed Landfill into Source of Renewable Energy and Revenue
Eversource to purchase renewable energy generated from 622 KW-dc solar PV project FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & WESTPORT, Mass.: Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, today announced that it has partnered with the Town of Westport, Massachusetts to install a 622 KW-dc ground-mounted solar panel system at Westport’s closed landfill. Ameresco […]
Massachusetts EFSB awards Vineyard Wind permit for construction of offshore wind farm interconnection to regional grid
The Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board, an independent state board responsible for review of proposed large energy facilities, has approved petitions filed by Vineyard Wind for construction and operation of electric transmission facilities within the Commonwealth that will deliver 800 MW of clean, renewable offshore wind energy to the regional power grid. Approval of the […]
Massachusetts’ multipronged policy approach spurs distributed energy storage
Sunrun has credited the state’s bedrock of distributed energy policies for enabling its participation in ISO-NE’s capacity market with an aggregated solar-plus-storage bid. Massachusetts is a leader in the deployment of distributed energy storage in America, due to forward-thinking legislative approaches and other measures aimed at unlocking the full potential of the resource, analysts told […]