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…
This category includes posts regarding the proposed project 2015a, aka the “Peabody Peaker Plant
Peakers on Pulaski Street in Peabody
It’s been nearly a decade since SP2015A entered our purview. While in the early days there wasn’t much information, we now have a boatload of info about MMWEC’s new…
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…
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…
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,…
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…