Energy

WBJ’s Best of Business awards are centered around one idea: referrals.

The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Massachusetts dropped to $3.35 on Tuesday, three cents lower than a year ago on Jan. 3, 2022.

Sixteen Central Massachusetts received nearly $1.6 million total in Green Community Grants from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources for energy efficiency and clean energy projects. 

A 1,000 megawatt onshore wind project planned for northern Maine and an associated transmission build-out "would provide benefits to Massachusetts and the region," the Mass. Department of Energy Resources said as it determined that it makes sense to have Bay State ratepayers cover 40 percent of the project costs as part of a multi-state clean energy effort.

The Department of Public Utilities on Friday approved the contracts between both the Commonwealth Wind and Mayflower Wind offshore wind projects and Bay State utilities, rejecting Commonwealth Wind's request to scrap an agreement that it says would not allow its project to be financed and built.

A lawsuit filed by several customers against Peterson Oil Service Inc. of Worcester accusing the company of knowingly delivering the wrong mix of heating oil was certified on Dec. 12 as a class action lawsuit by a Worcester Superior Court judge.

The energy industry is moving quickly toward development of environmentally friendly technologies

Every December, the WBJ Editorial staff predicts possible news events for the coming year. Here are our predictions and why they will happen.

At the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what the following year would bring: a worldwide pandemic, an economic shutdown, the highest unemployment since the Great Depression, massive government intervention, empty offices, and the start of a recovery.

The average gas price now sits at $3.44 a gallon. That is down 38 cents from just a month ago ($3.82), and 5 cents higher than this time last year.