Gasoline prices in Rhode Island dropped another 1 cent this week, marking the seventh consecutive week of decline, according to AAA Southern New England. more

National Grid will invest $40 million in Clean Line Energy Partners LLC, an emerging leader in the development of long-distance, high-voltage direct current, the companies announced Tuesday. more

The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities has approved the 15-year power purchase agreement between Cape Wind and NSTAR, Cape Wind announced Monday. more

Brown University has been awarded $750,000 from the U.S. Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency through its Open 2012 program. more

Gasoline prices in Rhode Island were unchanged this week after seven consecutive weeks of decline, according to AAA Southern New England. more

The target date for completing Deepwater Wind’s proposed Block Island Wind Farm is slipping into 2015, CEO Jeff Grybowski said. more

Cranston’s Robert Midwood, center, is presented with a $1,000 Sears Gift Card by National Grid representative Laurie Acone, left, and Sears representative Kelli Mahoney. Midwood was the owner of one of two 1939 General Electric refrigerators turned in during National Grid’s contest to identify the oldest refrigerators in the state. The competition was part of National Grid’s on-going program that pays customers $50 to turn in old, energy-inefficient refrigerators. more

Three wind turbines standing 365 feet tall at the Narragansett Bay Commission’s Field Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in Providence are visible reminders of the promise of wind energy and the state’s efforts to be a national leader in the industry. more

BOSTON – The Mass. Department of Public Utilities last week ordered a total of $24.8 million in penalties resulting from the state’s electric utilities’ responses to Tropical Storm Irene and the October 2011 snowstorm. The penalties will be returned to the utilities’ customers, the DPU said. more

In what is being called “a first of its kind collaboration,” a coalition of environmental organization and offshore wind developers have agreed to a series of voluntary measures to help protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale while helping to expedite offshore wind development. more