“Demand for career technical education is surging, and that demand is being met by a similarly growing group of partners. A major one just joined the fold, one who needs jobs filled to build wind turbines.

City officials and several partners to the school district met for a tour of Salem High’s CTE spaces on Thursday, an event celebrating a new partnership between Salem High and Crowley Wind Services. Crowley makes up part of the Salem Harbor Wind Terminal team, which includes city officials and AVANGRID as owners of the site as it’s redeveloped for offshore wind turbine construction.”

“The first of the 62 transition pieces to be built for Vineyard Wind 1, the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United States, has been transferred on 2 December from the Windar Renovables’ offshore facilities (Tadarsa Eólica 4) to the Port of Avilés, Spain.”

“After announcing in the morning that she was leaving her job as head of the Alliance for Business Leadership for “a new opportunity supporting Massachusetts’ growing clean energy industry,” former representative Jennifer Benson was announced Monday afternoon as the newest principal at a high-powered lobbying firm.

Robert Travaglini, the former Senate president who owns Travaglini, Scorzoni & Kiley, said that Benson, a Lunenburg Democrat who served 11 years in the Massachusetts House from 2009 to 2020, will help the lobbying shop expand its areas of expertise.

“Jen Benson is a highly regarded leader and we are thrilled to have her join our team,” he said. “She is the perfect fit for us, given her deep experience in state government, as well as her extensive ties to the state’s business community. As a statewide leader on climate policy and job creation, she is the perfect fit to help expand upon our firm’s expertise and to help serve our client’s growing needs.””

“Hosted by Mayor Michelle Wu, the couple heard about Boston's waterfront at Piers Park from representatives of key environmental organizations such as Boston Harbor Now, Stone Living Lab, the Trustees of Reservations and The Harborkeepers. They also spoke with members of the community about their experiences with flooding and storm surges, as well as the projects underway to mitigate the risks of climate change while promoting equity among the diverse residents of East Boston.”

“The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Greentown Labs in Somerville where they learned how the organization is contributing to global efforts to address the climate crisis. The visit is the perfect outing for the couple ahead of Friday's Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony, which will celebrate global efforts being made around the world to protect the environment.”

“Before heading to Roca, the couple went to Greentown Labs in Somerville, where they were greeted by CEO Emily Reichert, Mayor Katjana Ballantyne as well as Joe Curtatone, the former mayor of the city just north of Boston who is now the president of the Northeast Clean Energy Council.

Since its 2011 founding, Greentown, the largest climate technology startup incubator in North America, has supported more than 500 companies that have created more than 9,000 jobs.”

“The Massachusetts program is a collaboration between environmental justice group Browning the Green Space and Greentown Labs, one of the country’s leading cleantech incubators. Applications are open until Dec. 23.”

“The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees) today announced it received $3.25 million in additional funding for the future Piers Park III in East Boston from five corporate partners—Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), Liberty Mutual, State Street Corporation, Converse, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA).”

“Vineyard Wind announced that cable installation for the first commercial scale offshore wind farm has begun approximately 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. The company also announced that it expects to begin nearshore cable work off the south coast of Cape Cod in the coming days.”

“Anterix (NASDAQ: ATEX) announced today that Xcel Energy Services Inc., a subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: XEL) has signed an agreement providing Xcel Energy the use of Anterix's 900 MHz spectrum throughout the company's service territory in eight western and midwestern states. The agreement provides Xcel Energy dedicated use of the 900 MHz spectrum for 20 years, with two optional ten-year extensions.”

“The Salem Harbor Wind Terminal is a public-private partnership between Crowley and the City of Salem, with AVANGRID serving as the port’s anchor tenant through its Commonwealth Wind and Park City Wind projects.

The terminal will serve as a logistics and operations center for turbine pre-assembly, transportation, staging activities, and storage of assembly components.”

Transforming the former Somerset, Massachusetts, coal plant into the first submarine power cables factory and R&D center
The Group is involved in developing cabling connections for all major offshore wind farm projects in the U.S.

Hundreds of millions of dollars for housing development, $50 million for lending in “disadvantaged” communities and $200 million for water and sewage infrastructure headline the investment areas in a $1.7 billion supplemental budget bill Gov. Charlie Baker outlined Wednesday as the Republican eyes more spending in his final months in office.

Emily Reichert was Greentown Labs' first employee, and has since grown the company into the largest climate tech incubator in North America. Prior to Greentown Labs, Reichert was the director of business operations at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry.

(BOSTON, MA) – The team behind Vineyard Wind today announced the launch of Vineyard Offshore – a company focused exclusively on the development of the rapidly expanding North American offshore wind market.

Vineyard Offshore’s senior management team will be led by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lars Pedersen. Mr. Pedersen was recently CEO of Vineyard Wind, the company that is building the first commercial scale offshore wind project in the US, which broke ground in November of 2021. Additional members of the leadership team include Chief Development Officer Rachel Pachter, General Counsel Jennifer Simon Lento and Klaus Skoust Moeller, CEO of the Vineyard Wind 1 project.

CLEAResult is proud to be named the Official Energy Efficiency Partner of the Boston Red Sox. CLEAResult and the Red Sox will work together to realize the ambitious energy savings goals for Fenway Park.