Opinion: TVA gets undue credit for low-cost utilities
Herman Morris Jr.
Herman Morris Jr. is a senior consultant to the Friends of the Earth Memphis Project. He is a past president, CEO and general counsel for MLGW. Morris is also a former city attorney for Memphis.
While I agreed with results stated in the article, I felt it was misleading and it ignored the real reason for the MLGW DOXO ranking. Moreover, it grants undue credit to TVA, our wholesale electricity provider, when exactly the opposite is true.
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