Oil extended a seven-week gain in New York as orders for durable goods in the U.S. jumped, adding to optimism that an economic recovery will boost fuel demand. more

Energy management company Schneider Electric was named a “Channel Champion” by CRN Magazine for the 20th consecutive year. more

Gasoline prices in the Ocean State fell 7 cents this week in the sixth consecutive week of price declines, AAA Southern New England reported Monday. more

U.S. wind-power capacity grew 31 percent in 2011, accounting for 35 percent of all new electricity-generation capacity, the American Wind Energy Association said. more

Yardney Technical Products sends its lithium-ion batteries far and wide, including two that landed on Mars in August 2012 on NASA’s Curiosity rover. more

BOSTON – Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office said last week that it is seeking a $16 million fine against National Grid for its failure to “adequately prepare, respond and communicate” during Tropical Storm Irene and an October 2011 snowstorm. The penalty is the largest ever recommended against a utility in Massachusetts. more

The controversy that’s surrounded wind turbines on Aquideck Island this year isn’t stopping Naval Station Newport from moving ahead with plans for the largest wind-power project in the state. more

Gasoline prices in the Ocean State fell 9 cents this week in the seventh consecutive week of price declines, AAA Southern New England reported Monday. more

Scott DePasquale, executive chairman of Utilidata and a partner with Braemar Energy Ventures, speaks during the June 5 opening of the former’s Providence headquarters. The firm provides advanced automated energy-conservation and management technology services. It moved from Spokane, Wash., after receiving venture-capital financing from Braemar and a $500,000 loan from the Rhode Island Renewable Energy Fund. The firm has created eight jobs locally and expects a total of 47 high-paying, new jobs created by 2015. more

During the first quarter of 2012, earning reports for the “Big Three” American motor companies, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, showed that Americans are standing behind their automobile makers, and the Ocean State followed suit in the country’s rekindled love affair with the iconic, American-made automobile. more