Oncor: Tuesday outages not related to heat, grid failure timesrecordnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesrecordnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
City, residents hit with $1.34M bill for winter storm fiasco
Wichita Falls and its residents have been hit with a $1,334,460 bill because of the electric grid fiasco that happened during February’s winter storm.
An item on Tuesday’s City Council Agenda calls for paying a bill for “ancillary charges owed by the City to Gexa Energy for energy used during Winter Storm Uri.”
Gexa is a retail electricity provider similar to Reliant, Texas Electric and others who rushed into the market when Texas deregulated the electric industry in 2002.
The city’s electric rate did not fluctuate during the storm, but the city will have to pay because of a complicated method of “maintaining the reliable operations of the electric grid in Texas,” according to the council’s agenda item.
Thousands of East Texans without power after Sunday storms Power is out in some areas. (Source: WALB) By Gary Bass | May 9, 2021 at 6:05 PM CDT - Updated May 10 at 6:43 AM
EAST TEXAS (KTRE) - Hours after a storm system moved through the Deep East Texas area, thousands of people are dealing with power outages.
According to the outage map on the Oncor website, the lion’s share of the company’s power outages is in Angelina and Nacogdoches counties, which had 2,190 and 3,365 outages, respectively. As of 6:00 a.m. Monday, Oncor’s outages also include 3 in Anderson County; 4 in Houston County; and 17 in Cherokee County.
Creeks rushing, 30 roads still closed following heavy rains in Nacogdoches County
WebXtra: Creeks rushing By Donna McCollum | May 10, 2021 at 9:43 AM CDT - Updated May 11 at 1:56 AM
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Creeks in Nacogdoches and Nacogdoches County are subsiding, but still rushing after heavy rains. Nacogdoches County Road Administrator Doyle Williams reported this morning about 30 roads still closed due to water or trees over the road. At a 6:20 a.m. report from the Nacogdoches County Emergency Management Office the following roads are closed after yesterday’s thunderstorm:
500 BLK FM 1275
CR 317
CR 433-tree on road
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