'Significant progress' could be made overnight, ERCOT says
Keaton Fox
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UPDATE: 5:40 a.m. Feb. 18
CenterPoint Energy reports 107,020 customers remained without power Thursday morning across the Houston area. Statewide, 605,972 customers were still in the dark, according to poweroutage.us.
UPDATE: 11:07 p.m. Feb. 17
A total of 423,926 customers are without power as of late Wednesday night, according to CenterPoint Energy's outage tracker.
UPDATE: 8:11 p.m. Feb. 17
A total of 1.6 million households had power restored since Wednesday morning, according to ERCOT in a nighttime update.
The total power restored is 8,000 megawatts. In a significant update, ERCOT added "there was sufficient generation available to begin restoring 1,000 megawatts every hour."