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The Daily Memphian asked for people still without electricity to share their stories. Many of them have lost loads of groceries, are living with neighbors or have reached financial limits after being forced to buy rooms at local hotels.
MLGW pushes back its estimate to have all customers restored and begins looking to fix smaller outages. Related story:
As of 5:30 p.m. Monday, more than 60,000 MLGW customers remained without power out of the 140,000 or so who initially lost it.
Out of about 140,000 Memphis Light, Gas & Water customers who lost power Thursday, thousands still do not have electricity.
The number of people without power remained at about 20% of MLGW’s customers by 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Watch live as Memphis Light, Gas & Water officials address the current state of restoring utility to customers without power due to the ice storm. To report outages, call 901-544-6500.
The National Weather Service says the ice storm warning is in effect until midnight tonight. This story will be continuously updated.Related story:
City-owned Memphis Light, Gas & Water is failing to post financial disclosure forms of its officers and directors on the Internet as contemplated in its 2007 ethics policy.
As Memphis explores severing its decades-long ties to the Tennessee Valley Authority, a business seemingly jointly owned by an MLGW board member and the wife of a TVA vice president is causing critics to cry foul. Related story:
Council members also will meet Marvell Mitchell, the CEO of a local software company, who is the new leader of the city division that keeps track of how much business city government does with minority contractors and businesses.
The Tennessee Valley Authority has to turn over material about the 20-year contract agreement it wants Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division and all the other local utilities in its system to sign.
Utility workers for the city-owned utility get pay raises the next four years under the compromise that scrubbed a city council session to break the labor contract impasse.
A special Memphis City Council meeting called to resolve a labor contract impasse was settled before the 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, start of the session.
The Tuesday afternoon meeting should be short with the labor contract impasse the only item on the agenda. The meeting technically continues last week’s meeting, which was recessed to allow for the special meeting.
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.
Tuesday before the City Council, MGLW management and labor couldn’t agree about what their final offers were and what was on the table. The result will be a special council meeting between now and Christmas week.
Memphis Medical District Collaborative president Rory Thomas talks about the potential growth from Ford’s planned investment and attracting outsiders to the Medical District.
A firm that simplifies bill-paying for households around the country reports that Memphis is second only to Austin, Texas, for having the nation’s lowest average utility bills.
The last 330 miles of the gas line was beneath North McLean Boulevard in front of Compass Community Schools’ Midtown campus.
In other action Tuesday, Oct. 19, the council delayed a final vote on a comprehensive downzoning plan and approved funding for the start of the next phase of construction on the South City development.
Germantown will begin the process of transferring customers to its water system. Small pockets of the city are still served by MLGW.
Germantown is beginning the process of providing its water services to residents in the southernmost portion of the city.
MLGW and Memphis Public Works crews are prepared to work overtime if the hurricane still has a lot of wind and rain left on its path north.
Developer Franklin Haney’s plan to buy the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant and sell the electric power it generated to Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division started the ongoing exploration of MLGW possibly leaving the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division has issued the second of three RFPs — requests for proposal — in its process of determining whether to stay with the Tennessee Valley Authority or leave it for another electric power wholesaler.