Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) Electric Rates and Bills

Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) reported 385,015 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,142 kWh a month on average at 13.24 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 60 Tennessee utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, MLGW ranks 33 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where MLGW has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Tennessee. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, MLGW reported an average of 283 minutes without power per customer and 1.99 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 142 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

MLGW had about 156 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Tennessee figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 142 minutes and 1.99 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 283 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. MLGW reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 59 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA does not show residential net-metered solar for MLGW in 2025. How net metering works.

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Tennessee Public Utility Commission.

MLGW is a municipal utility based in Tennessee.

Of the 80 utilities listed for Tennessee, MLGW is the 2nd largest by homes, at roughly 12.0% of the state total. Its price of 13.24 cents per kWh is 0.48 cents above the median of 58 other municipal utilities in Tennessee (12.76 cents). At $151.19 a month, an average MLGW home pays about $58 a year less than the Tennessee average of $156.03, and uses 39 kWh a month less. MLGW lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Tennessee with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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