Nearly 19,000 MLGW customers haven’t seen a bill in months
Nate Guyton of Memphis Light, Gas and Water installs a smart meter on a house in the Cooper-Young neighborhood. (Lance Murphey/The Daily Memphian file)
MLGW’s Smart Meters are failing at a rate that suggests a design flaw, and the problem has delayed about $12.5 million in payments to the utility.
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Keely Brewer is a Report for America corps member covering environmental impacts on communities of color in Memphis. She is working in partnership with the Ag & Water Desk, a sustainable reporting network aimed at telling water and agriculture stories across the Mississippi River Basin.
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