Memphis Light, Gas and Water is on its way to making our electrical system more reliable and resilient. How? It is a three-step approach says MLGW President CEO Doug McGowen.
- Step 1 – A baseline assessment to figure out what’s out there and what’s broken. In the last 18 months, MLGW has responded to 800,000 customer outages. To put that into perspective, that is the same number of outages as there were in the 10 years between 2012 and 2022. A baseline assessment will let us find everything that has been broken in those 18 months so we can fix it.
- Step 2 – Putting in a 5-Year Reliability and Resilience Work Plan which includes improvements listed in the 2020 MLGW Way Forward plan: old poles, transformers and switches are being replaced; MLGW has contracted three tree-trimming crews to get us back on a three-year tree-trimming cycle; and MLGW is upgrading all its substations and putting more modern construction standards into place.
- Step 3 – Moving to a smart grid. A smart, “self-healing” grid will automatically detect outages and re-route power to customers who can receive it, drastically reducing the amount of time for damage assessment and helping crews respond quicker.
We are already on our way to meeting these goals. Infrastructure improvements are underway, and completion of the 5-year Reliability and Resilience Work Plan will help set us up for future success with MLGW 2045.
This is good news to hear. But MLG&W should have never been here, at this position, in the first place. By their own admission they failed for years to keep up with the right of ways and power line clearances. They (and by proxy us the MLG&W paying customers) are now paying a very heavy toll for this gross negligence in responsibility. The power grid is now extremely fragile. We should not have to worry about every time it looks like rain that our electricity will go out and for how long. It's shameful and literally criminal what MLG&W has allowed to happen. Where did all the money go that was supposed to be for used for line clearances and right of way work? I hope honest audits are done and those responsible for letting all this happen are fired as they have failed in their job. MLG&W used to have a reputation as one of the best utility companies in the country. But that is definitely not longer the case. But I hope they can get it back to where it is once more.
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