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MLGW presents $11.9 million fiscal consent package and details how data centers will affect system capacity
Summary
Memphis Light, Gas and Water outlined roughly $11.9 million in fiscal consent requests and walked the City Council through substation upgrades, transformer purchases and fleet replacements while answering council questions about capacity for incoming hyperscale data centers and TVA commitments.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) presented a set of fiscal consent items to the City Council on June 24 calling for roughly $11,900,000 in individual requests that MLGW said are part of about $257,000,000 in total planned spending for 2025. Doug McGowan, MLGW senior staff, described purchases ranging from high-voltage circuit breakers and transformers to vehicle replacements and radio-network support services.
The items included a not-to-exceed $1,000,000 purchase for five high-voltage circuit breakers to replace end-of-life devices at several substations; a not-to-exceed $8,500,000 purchase for four NexSys power transformers to support capital plan expansions and system reliability; a five‑year support contract for the utility's MPLS radio network; modeling software renewal for gas system engineering; emergency ratification for water-main repair work near Union/Flicker Avenue; and routine fleet purchases including pickup trucks, compact track loaders and concrete mixer trucks.
Why it matters: Council members pressed MLGW on how the purchases fit into a broader master plan to…
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