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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said its hoping to make a lot of overnight progress as Texans without power continue to deal with the winter storm.
ERCOT Power Outage Map, Updates as Over 600,000 in Texas Without Power
On 2/18/21 at 7:29 AM EST
Around 640,000 energy customers in Texas are still facing power outages. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) says it is making progress in the matter, restoring power to around 1.6 million households yesterday.
ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness said in a statement released on Wednesday: We are working around the clock to restore power to Texan. We made progress today, but it will not be good enough until every person has their power back.
ERCOT Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin added: We re at a point in the restoration where we re going to keep energizing circuits as fast as we safely can until we run out of available generation. We hope to make significant progress overnight.
Freight railroads curtail operations as extreme winter weather blasts through
UP, KCS and NS modify intermodal service amid power outages, bitter cold 1,091 4 minutes read Extreme winter weather is disrupting freight rail operations in the southern and central U.S. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
Bitter cold, heavy snowfall and power outages over swaths of the South and Midwest are crimping much of the U.S. freight rail network and causing service disruptions.
“Another winter storm will slam the South Wednesday, taking nearly the same track as the historic storm earlier this week,” FreightWaves reported. “That storm produced daily record snowfalls and record low temperatures in many places.”