City Council raises electric rates, looks at cutting ties with TVA
Memphis City Council member Chase Carlisle talks with fellow member Edmund Ford Sr. during a Jan. 21, 2020, committee meeting. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The rate hike marks a breakthrough for MLGW, which has had two other multi-year rate-hike proposals rejected by the Council in the past two years. The legal opinion on bonds backed by projected post-TVA savings was part of the compromise.
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