The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has also entered emergency conditions and initiated rotating outages in the early hours of Feb. 14 due to extreme demand, an ERCOT news release said.
"Every grid operator and every electric company is fighting to restore power right now," said ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness in the release.
ERCOT, which manages the flow of electricity to more than 26 million Texans, also said rotating outages could be initiated until the winter weather emergency ends.
Statewide ERCOT rolling power outages have begun. SMEU customers are broken into 5 groups across SM and each group should expect to experience periodic outages. Power has been returning in about an hour or less. To report power being off past an hour please call 512.393.8313.