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When it gets really hot, or really cold, I look at where our power is coming from. And I, likely a far more prolific consumer of news and commentary than most of you given my job, am consistently surprised when it's still the fossil fuels, still coal and natural gas, keeping the lights on.

MLGW may suspend inquiry into whether it should leave TVA Memphis, Light, Gas and Water will likely not be leaving the Tennessee Valley Authority any time soon. CEO J.T. Young is proposing to “indefinitely suspend” the pursuit of an alternative electricity supply and negotiate with TVA for improved rates. Young made the recommendation to the city-of-Memphis-owned utility's board of commissioners on Wednesday morning. The utility outlined the exact steps Young wants to take in a tweet.  At this time, the plan to abandon leaving TVA is just a recommendation from Young. It still needs to be...

Why power outages, rolling blackouts occurred across the Mid-South In Texas, millions were without power Tuesday morning because the Electric Reliability Council of Texas lost a significant amount of capacity from the state's natural gas plants and some from frozen wind turbines. The plants relied on gas coming from the wellhead and gas production in Texas plummeted during the cold snap.  Entergy, which serves parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, also had outages due to a loss of electricity generation and equipment malfunctions in the extreme cold. The Midcontinent Syst...