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…
PMLP 2024 Budget
The Peabody Municipal Light Commission unanimously approved PMLP’s 2024 budget, after discussing it in Executive session, on January 25. “The budget shows a positive margin of $28, 831; projected revenues…
“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…
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…
Hazardous Release at PMLP reported in May
On August 24, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) informed the Peabody Board of Health that there was a release “of Oil and/or Hazardous materials” reported in May at 201…