There is always as possibility has long as the weather continues to be extremely cold, said Tichel.
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator, which operates the power grid that spans from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, can order utility agencies to conduct outages to reduce overload on the grid.
Brandon Scardigli, a spokesman for Entergy, which serves 71,720 customers in Lafourche and Terrebonne, said Thursday morning the company did not yet have data on how many local customers were affected by the mandatory outage Tuesday night. As far as the winter storm we saw around 130,000 (statewide) with some more coming in the northern portion of the state today with their winter weather coming in, Scardigli said.