The Texas power grid is improving – but days of outages have caused heat, water and food shortages
AUSTIN, Texas The widespread power outages in Texas improved overnight even as they caused serious, cascading issues with the state’s supply of heating, water, food and medicine.
Power was still down for about 390,000 Texas customers as of Thursday afternoon well below the over 3 million outages a day earlier, according to Poweroutage.us.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the state’s power grid, said in a statement Thursday it had made “significant progress” restoring power overnight. Still, the winter storm and ongoing cold were affecting the system’s power generation, and rotating outages may be needed over the next couple of days, the company said.
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Texans weathering harsh winter conditions will get some relief from the cold on Saturday, although many in the state are still without basic utilities.
Texans weathering harsh winter conditions will get some relief from the cold on Saturday, although many in the state are still without basic utilities.
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