“No Budget for You.”
The Peabody Municipal Light Commission elected officers last week and continued their confusing attitude about providing transparency regarding the operation of the city’s power plants. Newly elected Chairman Ray Melvin…
PMLP Budget is not available for the public to review before it is voted.
The 2024 budget of PMLP is on the agenda of the Peabody Light Commission meeting slated for Thursday, Jan. 25. BCNS requested a copy of the budget in order to…
Rousselot’s plant emits 21,000 metric tons of CO2 MORE than the Waters River substation.
The Peabody City Council voted in December on a $9 million bond to acquire 137 acres of land currently owned by the soon-to-be closed Rousselot plant on Washington and Allens…
2023 Green Community Saga Update
I’ll be lifting a glass to toast the City of Peabody for meeting today’s state deadline to apply to become a Green Community! Curt Bellavance, Director of Community Development in Peabody,…
A Peabody Peaker Battery
Peabody and MMWEC (Ma. Municipal Wholesale Electric Co.) have come a long way to embrace renewable battery storage. During meetings in 2020 about SP2015A, the third gas-and-oil burning generator off…
Video of PMLP meetings restored.
We're back! The Peabody Municipal Light Commission's regular meeting has returned to Peabody TV care of BCNS volunteers! (We brought our own microphones!) Go to https://peabodytv.org/videos-on-demand/?vid=1121 (Psst - Seems our…
A peek at the new peaker on Pulaski
A glimpse of the new $85 million gas-and-oil burning peaker plant off Pulaski Street. The capacity resource known as Project 2015A is a new, efficient, fast-starting, 60 MW, dual fuel,…
Proposed Pulaski St development on former Superfund site includes access to the Waters River
Down the street from the Waters River electric generating station in Ward 3 is the area of Pulaski Street known as the former Monnier Superfund site. It is currently poised…
PMLP Meeting
The Peabody Municipal Light Commission meets next at 6:30pm, October 26 at 201 Warren Street. The agenda is here: https://www.pmlp.com/Agenda.../ViewFile/Agenda/_10262023-115 Minutes from the PMLC September meeting are not yet available.
Current status of Peabody’s gas-and-oil peaker plants Series, #1 – SP2015, Peabody’s newest plant and, hopefully, the last new fossil fuel infrastructure to be built.
PMLP announced last month that the new 60MW generator is “physically complete” yet it continues to violate the June 2023 deadline to be ready to provide energy to ISO-NE on…