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April 2026
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State leaders give Memphis suburbs votes on MLGW board
Locally, two new voting representatives would come from Shelby County’s largest suburbs — Bartlett and Collierville.
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Suburbs could get voting representation on MLGW board
About 30% of the MLGW’s customers live outside the city limits, and new legislation in Nashville could give them a say on the board.
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March 2026
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Morgan Steel expanding locally, adding more than 100 jobs
“We’re serving customers in Ohio, Mississippi and Texas, so we could have started a steel distribution center anywhere in the Southeast,” Morgan Steel CEO said. “But we’re happy to continue to grow right here in Memphis.”
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MLGW recruiting from high schools, Southwest
Memphis Light, Gas and Water partnered with Memphis-Shelby County Schools, Southwest Tennessee Community College and other career and technical organizations in the area for its Customer Service Career Academy.
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February 2026
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MLGW: Price of gas, increased electricity use led to higher bills
The bitter cold that battered Memphis in January has led to February utility bills that are much higher than last year and last month.
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January 2026
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Customers can stop dripping faucets — for now, MLGW says
When temperatures drop below 20 degrees for more than four hours, Memphis Light, Gas and Water says customers should resume dripping their faucets.
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What a year’s worth of xAI power bills tell us
MLGW is in the process of providing updated records, which are expected to significantly alter the totals initially reported in this story.
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Opinion: XAI must power a just transition for Memphis
“Let xAI not be a monument to what was taken from Memphis but a testament to what happens when a city demands justice for its people.”
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From partial records to massive bills: Inside xAI’s $50M Memphis energy footprint
Initial public records provided to The Daily Memphian showed only a fraction of xAI’s true electric consumption and almost none of its natural gas usage, prompting questions about incomplete disclosure.
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Opinion: Cardiac arrest doesn’t wait. Neither should MLGW.
“As organizations set goals for the new year, there’s one resolution that belongs at the top of every leadership agenda: be ready to save a life.”
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November 2025
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MLGW celebrates completion of major South Memphis pipeline project
The celebration of the project’s completion included balloon hats.
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September 2025
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Ask the Memphian: Can Memphis bury its power lines?
Virtually any time Memphis gets enough wind, ice, rain or snow to disrupt the power, the howls start up again: Bury the power lines no matter the cost! But that cost usually dampens those howls.
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City Council gives MLGW go ahead for new operations center
The resolution the City Council passed authorizes MLGW to buy a Cordova property for up to $31.4 million.
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MLGW takes step toward buying Cordova property
MLGW previously considered moving the utility’s headquarters to the same building, but backed off on that plan.
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August 2025
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MLGW eyes Smith & Nephew building for new control room
MLGW has an existing space in mind for a new control room CEO Doug McGowen says is needed. And it’s a property the city-owned utility has looked at before.
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Power outages ease as FESJC resumes after storms
As the golf tournament resumes, MLGW crews are slowly whittling down the number of customers without power after a summer squall dumped an inch of rain on the city Friday afternoon.
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More than 10,000 MLGW customers without power
Heavy rain Friday afternoon leaves more than 11,000 in the dark and causes play to be suspended at the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
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TVA likely to be backup power for xAI
MLGW will not be providing more than a small amount of power to xAI and the Tennessee Valley Authority may not provide a lot either, according to CEO Doug McGowen.
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Southaven mayor on xAI, more MLGW customers eligible for cutoff and 2026 campaign updates
This Political Roundup dives into what the Southaven mayor said about Elon Musk’s xAI buying a former energy plant, MLGW customers who could be cut off skyrocket, TVA’s demand highs and more.
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June 2025
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It’s the hottest day of the year in Memphis
Tuesday is expected to be the hottest day of the year so far, with the heat index expected to hit 107. A heat advisory remains in effect at least through Friday, but some relief may be on the way.
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New MLGW substation to power growth in Collierville
The new substation will help create redundancy in MLGW’s system.
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FedEx to open its own power substation in July
The substation is on Democrat Road and will provide power to the hub without adding strain to the Memphis Light, Gas and Water grid.
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Vaughan talks future legislative ideas, reelection plans at Collierville chamber
Rep. Kevin Vaughan weighed in on the suburb’s reliance on Memphis Light, Gas and Water and on the Memphis-Shelby County Schools state takeover.
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May 2025
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XAI’s second data center could use enough electricity to power 40% of Memphis
MLGW said that it has discussed xAI using up to 1.1 gigawatts of power at its Tulane Road data center. However, MLGW said that amount of power is not poised to be delivered soon and is not formally being studied.
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