Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Texaco's decision persuaded Cambridge Electric, Harvard's source of steam heat and electricity, to order all customers to curtail their use of steam and electricity by a similar 28-per-cent margin. And they threatened offenders with severe penalties--including a complete cut-off of energy...
Harvard on Wednesday responded by organizing a special Programmed Energy Preservation Team (PEP) to implement the necessary changes in energy consumption. PEP chief Maurice E. Rice and a team of engineers have begun to traverse the 7.5 miles of underground steam tunnels nightly to shut off heat valves in classrooms and librariers, and to lower dormitory temperatures to 60 degrees. Engineers restore all building temperatures up to 68 degrees each morning...
...Cambridge Electric Co., Harvard's supplier of steam and electricity, ordered Tuesday a customer curtailment of 28 per cent of the amount of steam utilized in December...
...financial penalty would compensate electricity customers for the energy loss incurred by steam users who exceeded their ration. The ensuing electrical shortage would force Cambridge Electric to buy energy from other New England utilities at double the company's own generating cost, Dery said...
...Radcliffe campus, which has its own boilers and does not draw steam from Cambridge Electric, has received only 80 per cent of the oil normally used during this month...