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Power restoration update: 25,000 customers without power on Day 7
Read full article: Power restoration update: 25,000 customers without power on Day 7CenterPoint Energy expects near-complete power restoration for Houstonians by this evening, with over 840,000 customers already having their power restored since the outages began.
Lights may be on, but the suffering isn’t over
Read full article: Lights may be on, but the suffering isn’t overHOUSTON – Texas Senate and House hearings are only the beginning of the investigations into our state’s power grid failures during a blistering winter storm. Ten days after the winter storm blanketed Texas, Anderson still has no water in her Yorkdale neighborhood home in Northwest Houston. Like millions of Texans, Anderson lost power as temperatures dropped, pipes in the ceiling froze and then cracked. Hearings in the House and Senate will start the work to get those answers. We should have taken action then, what prevented that from happening, why did we not take the action?”
State’s power grid resumes normal operations, moves out of emergency conditions
Read full article: State’s power grid resumes normal operations, moves out of emergency conditionsHOUSTON – Leaders with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) ended emergency protocols and ceased rotating outages Friday morning. ERCOT leaders said enough power plants came back online to bring stability to the state’s power grid. With the crisis now passed, Magness said ERCOT is sending out Request for Information to all power generators who went offline during the storm. Magness said these RFI’s will help ERCOT gain a better understanding of exactly why 185 power plants tripped offline Sunday night and Monday morning. AdDan Woodfin, ERCOT senior director of system operations, said the state’s grid unexpectedly lost 40% of its power supply during the storm.