Energy

The Baker administration's Department of Energy Resources late last week quietly released its final language for the state building code changes that it hopes will encourage builders to shift away from fossil fuel heating in favor of electrification and some activists are hoping that lawmakers will compel changes before the code changes take effect.

Worcester Business Journal has hired Kevin Koczwara, a longtime Worcester journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Rolling Stone, as its newest staff writer.

Competitive Energy Services, an energy management services firm with offices in Portland and Topsfield, Mass., said Tuesday it would acquire Risk Services Group, a Shrewsbury, Mass., electricity and natural gas procurement consulting business.

Hospitality jobs continue gains as Mass. unemployment rate rose to 3.6% in August

The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas dropped to $3.91, down 13 cents from one week ago, according to travel association AAA Northeast.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have created a new way to convert food waste into renewable fuel.

Ameresco, the Framingham-based renewable energy company, said Wednesday that it completed a new solar project on a former Illinois brownfield site. 

The average price of a gallon of gas in Massachusetts continues to drop, hitting $4.06, down 10 cents from last week, according to travel association AAA Northeast.

Metrolube Realty, LLC, registered to Bob Ladas, president CEO of Marlborough’s Metrolube Enterprises Inc., purchased two Valvoline Instant Oil Change locations in Worcester for $3.2 million.

The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas in Massachusetts continued to fall this week, down 11 cents from last week, to $4.16 a gallon, according to travel association AAA Northeast.