Word: matep
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...Medical Area Total Energy Project (MATEP) has always been somewhat controversial. In the 1960s and '70s when it was conceived, critics argued that the power plant, which provides energy for Harvard's teaching hospitals, was expensive and inefficient. In the 1980's the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection held long, tortuous hearings over whether Harvard should be allowed to set up an array of diesel electricity generators in the Longwood Medical Area...
...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...
Acknowledging that MATEP decision occurreddecades ago, Landes said he cites it because itdemonstrates a problem that still exists...