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...plant produces steam by burning oil and is primarily used for heating Harvard’s buildings. The steam is distributed throughout the campus by a series of underground tunnels...
...With the plant comes a fair amount of underutilized real estate—a rarity in Cambridge—raising eyebrows in the Riverside neighborhood, home to the plant and to a long and difficult relationship with the University that put up such hated buildings as Peabody Terrace and Mather Towers...
...Carlson, a member of the Riverside Study Committee, said the steam plant purchase was expected, but that he would have liked more notice from Harvard about its intentions with the plant...
...added that he would not hesitate to call in independent monitors to check on the plant...
This is not the first time the University has ventured into the utilities business. The University built and operated from 1985 to 1998 the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which supplied steam, electricity and chilled water to Harvard’s Longwood Campus and to many surrounding buildings...