renewable energy

Most people, on average, will have to pay an extra $120 a year. Low income folks, on average, will have to pay somewhere around $15 extra a year.

In a milestone for renewable energy in the United States, Vineyard Wind supporters filled a big white tent Thursday at Covell’s Beach in Centerville for a ceremonial groundbreaking for America’s first large offshore farm.

Previously, it was thought that the critically endangered whales were only present in high numbers in waters off Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard from late winter to early spring. But new research, published July 29 in Endangered Species Research, has revealed that dozens more individual whales are using the area in the fall and summer — and the numbers are increasing.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the company an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA), effectively allowing for unintentional harm to marine mammals during the construction period from May 2023 through April 2024.

The solar developer is working on a project to transform 70 of 140 acres on the historic golf course into an energy-production hub.

The wide-ranging legislation puts the state on a path to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, establishes new appliance efficiency standards, sets sector-specific emission reduction targets, and addresses the needs of environmental justice communities.

The town of Falmouth is one step closer to approving a huge solar farm on land owned by the Cape Cod Country Club that could provide the community with more than one-sixth of its electricity needs.

With a second offshore wind farm now on the way, Massachusetts is primed to have enough wind energy in the next decade to power about 800,000 homes. But…

The Brayton Point powerplant on the South Coast is a monument to a source of energy Massachusetts once heavily relied on: coal. The plant closed in 2017,…

The Green New Deal has ignited a theatrical debate in Congress, from posters of a velociraptor-riding President Reagan on the Senate floor to press…