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...MATEP plant, which has 105 employees and runs 24 hours a day, supplies 95 percent of the electricity for the Medical School, the School of Public Health, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and four of Harvard's teaching hospitals--Beth Israel, Children's the Deaconess and Brigham & Women...
Finally, nine years ago, the generators went on-line, and MATEP's goal--that of providing a number of utilities simultaneously and using the waste from one process as fuel for the next, dubbed "cogeneration"--was fulfilled...
...plant charges the same rates as Boston Edison, which also runs power lines to the hospitals, so that if MATEP were to fall, electrical power would not be interrupted...
...MATEP is the successor to the Harvard Powerhouse, which was built in 1906 but failed to meet the demands for chilled water, steam and electricity required by Harvard's hospitals, which were expanding in number and size...
...hard to determine how much MATEP actually costs--estimates range from $300 million from the plant's own managers to $500 million from its critics--since the project was paid for with educational and health bonds...