Things were looking up Thursday morning as CenterPoint Energy reported a little over 113,000 customers were without power compared to 1.3 million the morning before.
Large swaths of Dallas, Houston and other cities are being plunged into darkness as surging demand for heat and extreme cold pushes generators to the brink.
Early Monday, ERCOT - or The Electric Reliability Council of Texas the agency that oversees the state's electric grid, declared the state of Texas at the highest energy emergency level because of lower power supply and high demand due to extreme low temperatures during the winter storm. Rotating power outages started across the state. But the outages we're seeing today were caused when the demand started to far exceed the supply, and then the.