By Staff on July 2, 2011
By Lillian Johnson Memphis Light Gas & Water, Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Memphis Public Library have teamed-up to offer two new programs to help Shelby County residents reduce energy consumption: Get EnergySmart @ Your Library and Kill-A-Watt Checkout. Get EnergySmart @ Your Library is a two-hour workshop that imparts practical tips and offers hands-on instruction. [...]
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By on January 31, 2011
By Debbie Sowell On December 31, 2010 we closed the books on the Smallest User Grant Contest with Cooper-Young in the lead. We get the prize; we get the glory. We can be proud of our community and what we have accomplished together. All the data that was collected proves that we are making a [...]
Posted in Community News, Events, Goings On!, Green/Eco | Tagged Competition, MLGW, smallest user, Strengthening Communities, University of Memphis |
By on July 2, 2010
By Bill Bullock The electricity network, all the way from generation to a customer’s meter, is similar to a highway system. If roads are built to handle all traffic smoothly during the few hours per week of rush hour then they are significantly over-built for the rest of the time. Often, there is a compromise [...]
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By on July 2, 2010
By Glen Thomas Memphis Light, Gas and Water has issued a challenge to its customers in an effort to improve nighttime safety. MLGW’s Streetlight Challenge gives the utility a week to fix common streetlight outages or the utility will name the streetlight after the person whom reported the outage. “Most of the time we do [...]
Posted in Education, Safety | Tagged MLGW, Safety |
By on July 1, 2010
By Jim Brock Okay, Cooper-Young. It’s our turn to shine. But keep those bright lights off when you’re not using them! This year our neighborhood is involved in the Smallest User competition with the Evergreen neighborhood. The purpose of this contest is to see which community can reduce its energy usage in 2010, and the [...]
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