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“It would be unfair to the citizens of our city if either of these MLGW proposals were approved on Thursday without further serious discussion and the critical input necessary from the ratepayers who could be affected.”
“City Council has continuously approved MLGW’s requests, while ratepayers continue to receive subpar, substandard services. It is long past time for the residential customers and stakeholders to be put first!”
TVA built a training house on the Midtown Memphis campus where contractors can learn to identify weatherization problems, and how to correct them. The new course will start in January.
The MLGW Board of Commissioners moved the City of Memphis owned utility one step closer to leaving Downtown and buying a new headquarters in Cordova. MLGW board approves electric rate hikes, City Council up nextRelated story:
Shelby County electric rates are one step closer to going up 12% over the next three years.
Opinion: “Instead of our publicly owned utility sharing with us — its owners — where that money has gone, MLGW is once again proposing a hefty rate increase for infrastructure.”
On “Behind the Headlines,” Germantown Mayor Mike Palazzolo discussed MLGW and the suburb’s crisis that left residents unable to use water from the tap for six days.
A proposed rate increase is on the table for MLGW, the Civil Rights Museum gives out annual awards and Rhodes College will finally inaugurate its president.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water is on track to change all of Memphis’ streetlights to LEDs by year-end, but the project hasn’t been without criticism.
“With energy savings rising every month and with MLGW considering a possible 12% rate increase, I have to ask: How is locking in a fixed energy rate and controlling your own energy usage for life not a good idea for the future?”
MLGW president and CEO Doug McGowen’s plan, if approved, could help address Memphis’ present and future power needs.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water officials said an equipment failure impacted a “large portion” of Downtown Sunday morning, Oct. 8.
The utility wants to move its headquarters to a larger building, a $31 million, 300,000-square-foot facility in the Goodlett Farms area, north of Shelby Farms Park. Related story:
The proposed rate hike would fund $1.2 billion of power grid improvements over the next five years.
“She had that quiet strength,” State Rep. G.A. Hardaway said of the first female federal parole officer in the Western District of Tennessee, who was also influential in the historic Glenview neighborhood.
With all this new information about one of the city’s most important resources, what happens now?
MLGW warned that crews will be performing routine gas maintenance at one of its electrical substations at 9645 Winchester Road.
It took the Tennessee Valley Authority 90 years to build its current electric grid, but it’s going to need to move a lot quicker to keep up with its customers’ need for power.
Bartlett Alderman Kevin Quinn cites the lack of a Bartlett voice on the Memphis Light, Gas and Water board or any say in how the utility company functions.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water said a failure at Substation 3 caused the outage, and there are multiple crews trying trying to restore power.
States such as Florida have climbed in an annual report on the growth in solar power by region while the net growth of Memphis homes with solar has fluctuated.
Residential solar systems can generate cheaper energy and be a lifeline when the power goes out, but the systems also have high upfront costs and can be complicated to install.
Memphis Mayoral contender Paul Young also talked on “Behind The Headlines” about “stopping the bleeding” from violent crime as the next mayor’s top priority of the next mayor.
The board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provides MLGW with electricity, approved a 4.5% rate hike Thursday. The increase will equal about $3.50 more each month for TVA’s 10 million customers across seven states.
If estimates hold true, TVA will experience the highest demand for electricity of the summer Thursday; it would also be the highest power demand during any August in more than a decade.