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Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis

All posts tagged "MLGW"

Doug McGowen, the Pennsylvania native and former Navy fighter pilot, became president and CEO of Memphis Light, Gas and Water in late 2022. “We’re going to have to do many things differently than what we’ve done in the past,” he says of the nation’s largest three-service utility and its 7,900 miles of electric lines, 4,700 miles of gas lines, 3,900 miles of water lines, 30 properties, and 2,600 employees. (Karen Pulfer Focht)

Doug McGowen, the Pennsylvania native and former Navy fighter pilot, became president and CEO of Memphis Light, Gas and Water in late 2022. “We’re going to have to do many things differently than what we’ve done in the past,” he says of the nation’s largest three-service utility and its 7,900 miles of electric lines, 4,700 miles of gas lines, 3,900 miles of water lines, 30 properties, and 2,600 employees. (Karen Pulfer Focht)

Government

McGowen’s Next Mission: Ex-Navy ‘Top Gun’ charts new course for MLGW

Memphis Light, Gas and Water is a giant — an aging, lumbering, limping giant. The city-owned utility’s electric grid suffers twice as many outages...

David WatersJune 6, 2024

Audio Story

Fog of Storm Recovery Revives Calls for MLGW Transparency

As Memphis' public utility was restoring the power grid this month, reporters noted that some ethics policies had not been followed.

Christopher BlankFebruary 26, 2022

Millionaire developer Franklin Haney stands in front of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Hollywood, Ala. Haney purchased the plant at auction in 2016 for $111 million, and his plan to make Bellefonte operational again and sell power to Memphis hinges on raising billions of dollars and overcoming some stiff opposition. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)

Millionaire developer Franklin Haney stands in front of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Hollywood, Ala. Haney purchased the plant at auction in 2016 for $111 million, and his plan to make Bellefonte operational again and sell power to Memphis hinges on raising billions of dollars and overcoming some stiff opposition. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)

Watchdog

millionaire friend of Trump wants to plug Memphis into mothballed Alabama Nuke Plant

SPECIAL REPORT: Inside a long-shot plan to buy a never-opened nuclear plant and sell its power to a single customer: MLGW

Marc PerrusquiaNovember 18, 2018

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