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Council seeks answers after National Grid cancels Lowell geothermal pilot; residents and councilors press for next steps
Summary
Council asked the city manager to engage UMass Lowell and National Grid to review the recently canceled geothermal pilot and examine options to proceed or identify alternatives.
Councilors voted to ask the city manager to engage UMass Lowell and National Grid to review lessons from a recently canceled geothermal pilot and to explore paths forward or alternate local energy pilots.
Resident Sarah Lapp told the council she was "really here to speak in support of the motion" and called the pilot's abrupt cancellation "disingenuous" given similar pilots proceeding in Framingham and Boston. "I do think that the city should really seek answers as to what happened and to why this, isn't gonna…
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