Word: matep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state official this week sent letters to officers of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) and to community residents--letters that delay his decision on whether to allow MATEP to install its diesel engines...
...PROPOSALS MADE almost nobody happy. MATEP is unhappy because it thinks the 200 limit is absurd. While Lashman says the plant can meet the "stringent conditions," as he labels them, it can only do so by sacrificing cost and energy efficiency. Harvard has already invested almost $175 million in what is beginning to look like a white elephant...
Originally, MATEP estimated it could save almost $2 million in its first year of operation; now Lashman says the new plant may barely keep up with current energy costs. But MATEP is in no position to be choosy: after Harvard's huge investment, it has to put its diesels in now, and argue about the details later...
...final decision has used the conflicting recommendations of his colleagues as an excuse for further delaying his decision. Boston Edison, the company that supplies power to the medical area, is still taking in about $3 million a year. Edison, which has no desire to lose such business to MATEP, also holds the final trump. It's the only company that can provide backup for Harvard, but to do so, it must invest $10 or $15 million in an essential step-down station. Edison spokesmen smugly tell you that if MATEP wants to buy backup power...
...Harvard and MATEP can literally not afford to let the project die. And until the diesels go in, no one will really know just how hazardous MATEP will be. The community says Harvard should have done its planning earlier; Harvard says the evidence is on its side. The DEQE commissioner, meanwhile, is damned if he says yes and damned if he says no. Either way, it looks like one group will take the other to court--and the MATEP saga will drone endlessly...