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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.
In a Thursday update on Houston’s winter storm response, Mayor Sylvester Turner celebrated that most city residents finally have electricity again, but warned that locals may still have to boil their water for safe consumption through this weekend or into next week. He also warned about the one last hard freeze set for Thursday night and cautioned folks to take precautions to prevent busted pipes that could damage homes and further set-back the city water pressure issues.
Most of the city of Houston has been under a boil water notice since Wednesday morning, when the city water system’s pressure fell below the state’s 20 psi threshold for safe drinking water. Thanks to ongoing repairs and getting a bunch of new generators up and running to warm-up chilly pipes overnight, Turner said the pressure situation is slowly but steadily improving.
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