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Jan 15, 2025
SALEM, Mass.—One of the most ambitious clean energy projects under consideration in this state started after a nasty surprise.
In December 2022, utility provider National Grid informed Rev. Nathan Ives of the St. Peter’s-San Pedro Episcopal Church in Salem that they had the right to change the building’s gas meter.
“The bill went from a hundred bucks a month to three thousand bucks a month overnight,” Ives said. “Obviously the meter was broken in our favor, and we didn’t realize it.”
The abrupt change thrust the church’s ambition to wean itself from fossil fuels into overdrive.