Trolling Purple Air
There are seven Purple Air quality monitors placed throughout the city and there have been some recent extreme spikes on the air quality readings in the downtown Environmental Justice area…
These are some of the alternatives to a fossil fuel burning plant
PMLP’s Customer Forum morphs format
by S. M. Smoller I recently submitted this question to the online PMLP Energy Awareness Forum: "Please tell us more about your plans to add solar panels to your property…
A future of community benefits agreements?
Looking back on what led to the Peabody peaker - the creation of new fossil fuel infrastructure starting in 2015, it was the siting process that irked me most. How…
Officials won’t say how often new peaker runs
Salem News, Caroline Enos, Aug. 15, 2024, Page 1 PEABODY — A controversial 60 megawatt peaker plant is now online on Pulaski Street. But developers behind the $85 million plant…
The Peabody peaker power plant is seen in October 2023. The plant is expected to come online in 2024.
New Peabody ‘peaker’ power plant prepares to go online less green than promised
BCNS was interviewed by Sophie Hartley and Hannah Richter, graduate students at MIT, last Fall.. This story is a collaboration between GBH News and an investigative journalism class at MIT’s Graduate Program…
Peabody is lucky to have Mark Dullea. BCNS supports his suggestions for a sustainable future. Can you help?
Peabody: Green Communities and Beyond 5/16/24 by Mark Dullea If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you’re someone who is concerned about the earth’s rising temperature and all…
Peabody is part of this ‘First-in-kind’ Massachusetts program to introduce grid-scale battery storage
from Renewable Energy World Lightshift Energy and MMWEC deploy "first-of-its-kind" program for grid-scale battery energy storage in Massachusetts. (Pictured: Lightshift Energy project in Danville, VA) (Photo: Business Wire) The Massachusetts…
Can’t you see how you come across as untransparent?
The March 28 meeting of the Peabody Municipal Light Plant had a different feel than usual. The time period for public comment was extended and the issue of lack of…
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,…