MLGW extends public comment period for power supply decision
MLGW is accepting comments at PowerSupply@mlgw.org and at board meetings until the board votes.
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October 2022
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‘Worst time’ for MLGW power supply decision, clean energy advocates say
Critics of MLGW’s recommendation to sign a long-term contract with the TVA say the 13 bids were evaluated during highly unusual circumstances.
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September 2022
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MLGW chair Mitch Graves to serve as interim CEO
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland will eventually nominate a replacement that Memphis City Council confirms.
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MLGW CEO J.T. Young received Florida job offer in recent weeks
Young said his decision to leave the utility was largely driven by family.
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MLGW CEO J.T. Young takes position with Florida utility
Young leaves MLGW after four years. His departure next month comes at a critical point in the utility’s consideration of leaving the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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August 2022
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MLGW to reopen lobbies on Oct. 3
The Downtown, Whitehaven, Lamar and Millington offices will return to their previous capacity, but the Summer Avenue location’s lobby will remain closed as MLGW scouts a new office space.
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June 2022
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First public bidder for MLGW electricity contract is familiar name
At a meeting Tuesday, local residents in favor of a split from the Tennessee Valley Authority criticized MLGW’s bid process — and learned who submitted at least one of the power proposals.
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MLGW savings less than expected under new power proposals
For years, advocates have said MLGW could save hundreds of millions of dollars annually by leaving TVA and buying electricity from someone else. But savings of “huge dollars” didn’t materialize in the latest proposals from other providers.
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May 2022
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Memphis business leader and philanthropist Larry Papasan dies
Papasan served as president of MLGW and Smith & Nephew’s Ortho Division and served on the boards of numerous local organizations.
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April 2022
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MLGW CEO: First look at TVA alternatives due in May or June
MLGW President and CEO J.T. Young says on Behind The Headlines that a preliminary report on sealed bids to replace TVA as the utility’s electric power supplier should be ready in late May or early June for review.
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March 2022
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Ice storm advisory team begins work
The 51-member panel held its first meeting Thursday, March 17.
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Preferential treatment? Group to examine how, who MLGW prioritizes for power restoration
Some City Council members noted that it seems like “certain people” get their electricity back first after outages.
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February 2022
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Morgan: Selling MLGW almost an ‘impossibility’
During an hour-long online town hall Wednesday, Feb. 23, City Council member Worth Morgan and MLGW leaders fielded questions about recent increases in utility bills and the ice storm repairs.
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Next steps after ice storm recovery include increasing focus on trees
Speaking Thursday, Feb. 17, at the Frayser Exchange Club, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said the city’s chronic power outages during frequent storms is mostly about the trees that dominate the city’s landscape. Strickland says any solution to the continuing outages will be expensive.
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East Memphis, Midtown, Binghampton hit hardest by power outages
The city is forming a citizens group to review the ice storm response and how recent power outages have been handled by Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division.
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Six days out: Why 28,000 MLGW customers were still without power Wednesday
MLGW pushes back its estimate to have all customers restored and begins looking to fix smaller outages.
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The cold truth: Thousands remain without power
The number of people without power remained at about 20% of MLGW’s customers by 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
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March 2021
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MLGW board approves contract that gets TVA process back on track
The $520,000 consulting contract is a close but not exact match of the one the City Council rejected last October. The rejection stalled the process of considering an exit from TVA by six months. The new contract goes to the council for approval next week with price estimates due by the end of this year.
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MLGW board to vote next week on next step in TVA process
MLGW President and CEO J.T. Young on “Behind The Headlines” says the new contract with a consultant involves Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland as a mediator between the utility board and the council.
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MLGW board votes to continue look at leaving TVA
But members stop short of reviving the consultant’s contract for the next step in the review process and sending it back to the City Council. The council’s rejection of the contract last year stalled the process.
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17,000 facing utility cutoffs forces MLGW to phase in disconnects
MLGW resumed disconnecting customers for overdue bills this week. But there are so many, the utility has had to phase the cutoffs in, giving customers more time to work out payment plans over the next year.
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MLGW’s Young recommends putting talk of TVA split on hold
Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division President and CEO J.T. Young says spikes in bills and blackouts in other parts of the country show electric power isn’t a commodity but a necessity, representing a shift in the local debate that has been around getting a cheaper wholesale price for electricity.
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February 2021
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MLGW lifts water boil advisory, effective immediately
The city’s boil advisory is being lifted immediately, according to Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division President and CEO J.T. Young.
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Request to end water boil advisory could come Thursday
The advisory could be lifted in stages for parts of the MLGW area, which is most of Shelby County with the exception of Bartlett, Germantown, Collierville and Millington. Even when it is lifted MLGW president and CEO J.T. Young said the utility will still be asking households and businesses to continue conserving water for some period after the full restoration.
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Boil advisory could end within days, MLGW says
State environmental officials are helping in the effort to find leaks and resolve water problems.
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