Massachusetts

Work advances on a major East Coast infrastructure project to turn the former Brayton Point Power Station site in Massachusetts into a supply-chain hub for offshore wind-farm construction and maintenance.

Attorneys general in five states are pushing back against utility-industry resistance to regulatory acceptance of utility-scale battery storage, a fast-growing business that poses a fresh threat to traditional power-generation models.

Municipal utilities have helped drive an electricity-generation shift in which the state’s reliance on coal- and oil-fired for electricity has dropped to 2 percent from 35 percent 20 years ago.