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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When temperatures drop below 20 degrees for more than four hours, Memphis Light, Gas and Water says customers should resume dripping their faucets.
MLGW is in the process of providing updated records, which are expected to significantly alter the totals initially reported in this story.
“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.”
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.
“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.”
The celebration of the project’s completion included balloon hats.
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.
The resolution the City Council passed authorizes MLGW to buy a Cordova property for up to $31.4 million.
MLGW previously considered moving the utility’s headquarters to the same building, but backed off on that plan.
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.
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.
Heavy rain Friday afternoon leaves more than 11,000 in the dark and causes play to be suspended at the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
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.
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.
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.
The new substation will help create redundancy in MLGW’s system.
The substation is on Democrat Road and will provide power to the hub without adding strain to the Memphis Light, Gas and Water grid.
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.
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.
Flash floods covered roadways throughout the area Thursday as rain continued. Meteorologist Erik Proseus said Friday may be less severe, but Saturday’s forecast is again worrisome.Related content:
This is the first time the forecast has hit a 5 — the top of the National Weather Service’s risk scale — since 2023, said an NWS meteorologist.
Plus, four new apartment buildings are slated for the Medical District along Poplar Avenue and MLGW’s North Service Center facility is expanding.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water’s massive operations could change in the coming years, shifting the city’s industrial geography and potentially opening up key real estate for other uses. Related content:
Memphis Light, Gas and Water could generate electricity for the first time in decades.
Temperatures in the area are expected to plunge into the teens Thursday. The high temperature on Friday is predicted to hover near freezing.