BOSTON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Massachusetts' investor-owned electric utility companies -- National Grid, NSTAR, Unitil, and Western Mass Electric Company, successfully completed an energy efficiency pilot program called the Zero Energy Challenge.

1366 Technologies, an MIT spin-off focused on engineering and manufacturing advanced silicon solar cells, today announced the company will host a grand opening reception on October 16 to debut its new Lexington, MA manufacturing facility. The speaking program will begin at 10:30 a.m. ET.

PLYMOUTH, Mich., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- At the MIT Energy Conference this morning, Foreign Minister of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, along with MIT President Susan Hockfield and Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles, participated in the announcement ceremony for the founding of the MIT-Fraunhofer Institute for Sustainable Energy Systems.

By Hillary Chabot, The Sun, Lowell, Mass. Oct. 26--BOSTON -- State Rep. Bill Greene has issued a scathing critique of a preliminary study declaring that a power plant proposed for North Billerica would barely impact air and water quality.

By Lisa Wangsness, The Boston Globe Jul. 6--In on