The engineers who are responsible for providing our electricity traditionally use fossil fuels like natural gas and oil to generate reliable power.
The existential challenge for our community, our state, our nation, and our world-is to have sufficient renewable energy for our daily needs. We will build on the strong partnership of trust between our communities and our municipal light plants to devise a national demonstration funded by Federal and state government to create money-saving, community-based programs to transition to clean, renewable power with flexible use of energy to help cover peak demands. We can shift to clean energy within 3-5 years. In the name of conservation, climate, and public health, and to avoid the financial risk of investing in fossil fuel technology, we call for a complete halt to the Peabody peaker fossil fuel plant project managed by Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC) and a consortium of 14 municipal light plants.
We can reconcile the urgent demand of citizens to have carbon-free energy and the obligation of our municipal light plants to provide affordable, reliable power when the two sides, citizens and light plants, join together.
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