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Business Productivity Hampered by Low Data Literacy Improving workforce data literacy will create new opportunities TRUMBULL, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Questionmark--Employers can increase their efficiency and grasp new opportunities by improving data literacy skills in the workforce. In a new report, Questionmark, the online assessment provider, warns that without strong data literacy, organizations will struggle to make sense of the wealth of available data. Employers have access to more data than ever before according to the new report, “Continuous skills improvement”. This data can hel...

We're almost one week into the Biden administration, and already there are a slew of changes. I mean, the president signed 17 executive orders in his first hours in office alone. To help make sense of it all, we asked WBUR reporters to dig into key issues of importance to Massachusetts: what changes are (or may be) coming under the Biden administration, and what they're watching out for in the weeks to come. This explainer was created as a special edition of WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. To get more of the news Boston is talking about, sign up here.

Vineyard Wind has requested the restart of permitting for its 800MW offshore wind project in the US after rescinding a decision to withdraw a key permitting document for federal review. The Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners joint venture said it believes consenting for the project off Massachusetts can “resume” as no changes to a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) are needed following a fresh review. Vineyard last year withdrew its COP after switching from MHI Vestas to GE Haliade-X turbines. Federal lease agency BOEM responded by terminating the permitting pr...

Vineyard Wind resumes push to build offshore wind farm 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard Updated Jan 25, 2021; By Colin A. Young | State House News Service Officials at Vineyard Wind on Monday told the Biden administration that the company would like to resubmit the plans for a wind farm 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard that it yanked from federal review in early December. After the latest in a string of permitting delays imposed on the project by the Trump administration, Vineyard Wind on Dec. 1 announced that it was pulling the 800-megawatt offshore wind project out of the federa...

Vineyard Wind Resubmits Plan for Energy Farm Off Mass. Coast Vineyard Wind has told the Biden administration it will resubmit its plans for an 800-megawatt wind farm 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard. In the waning weeks of the Trump administration, the offshore wind company suddenly pulled its construction and operations plan, or COP, off the table, fueling speculation in some corners that the project was in trouble. At the time, they said they yanked the plan because they had changed their mind about the size and power of turbines they wanted to use. But today, only days after President J...