MLGW change in debt policy could help with TVA split
MLGW President and CEO J.T. Young (in a file photo) has recommended MLGW have some local power generation if it leaves TVA for another supplier. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
A proposed change in the utility’s debt policy could allow it to build a power generating plant, which would be key if MLGW cuts its ties to TVA, and pay for the plant with the savings to come from it.
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