Draft report on MLGW-TVA relationship draws fire from all sides
MLGW president and CEO J.T. Young fields questions by the Power Supply Advisory Team during a meeting at the Broad Avenue First Baptist Church on Feb 27, 2020, to consider options for the Memphis utility regarding whether to keep TVA as the city's supplier of electric power or alter the 80-year relationship. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
The civic group calling for MLGW to cut ties with TVA says TVA's estimate this week of hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses in the switch is wrong. And it says the draft report's recommendation of local power generation by MLGW is wrong too.
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