BOSTON – It's hard to keep up with Ralph Boyd, Jr. At first glance, the résumé of the CEO of the American Red Cross of Massachusetts seems as frenetic as his exuberant personality.
In the span of two decades, he has worked as a federal prosecutor, been a partner at a major Boston Law firm, served as former President George W. Bush's chief civil rights enforcer, headed up the Freddie Mac Foundation, and founded an inner-city charter school group.
BOSTON – Five months of negotiations resulted in a deal Tuesday between leaders of the state House of Representatives and the Senate to raise the cap on the amount of solar energy that public and private electricity customers can feed into the power grid by 3 percent, while decreasing the value of the incentives for new projects.
The compromise would also let power companies petition the Department of Public Utilities to charge solar-producing customers a minimum bill to cover the cost of maintaining electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure, according to a summary obtained by the News Service.
