Energy company, city working together to use byproduct of electricity generation to heat and cool buildings
When Veolia Energy North America recently agreed to buy surplus heat from a Cambridge power plant and use it to warm downtown Boston buildings, it was widely celebrated as a green solution to a problem of a company discharging hot, harmful water into the cool Charles River. Read more: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2011/04/04/in_green_era_an_old_idea_gains_steam/
Article courtesy of The Boston Globe-Green Blog by Beth Daley -Globe Staff