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San Antonio s CPS Energy to resume household disconnections Oct. 1
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CPS Energy President and CEO Paula Gold-Williams listens as the Emergency Preparedness Committee presents their report on the February storm to the San Antonio City Council, Thursday, June 24, 2021.Jerry Lara / San Antonio Express-News
On Oct. 1, CPS Energy will begin disconnecting residential customers who are behind on their power bills and haven’t worked out payment plans with the city-owned utility.
Monday’s announcement came 16 months after the utility at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily stopped cutting off power to households that are behind on their electric and gas bills.
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SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: The breakdown of the Texas power grid during a severe storm in February caused havoc in the state s energy markets. Now there are charges of manipulation against some big energy companies. Moses Buchele of member station KUT in Austin reports.
MOSES BUCHELE, BYLINE: The days leading up to February s big freeze were nerve-racking for CPS Energy, San Antonio s city-owned utility. Demand for electricity and heating would be huge. To prepare, the utility had to make sure it had enough electricity contracted and enough natural gas to supply its customers and fuel its own power plants. But then something else started happening, says CEO Paula Gold-Williams.
The Austin Energy Decker Creek Power Station natural gas plant in far East Austin, TX on June 25, 2021.
Paula Gold-Williams, the president and CEO of CPS Energy, said the days leading up to February’s winter storm were nerve-wracking.
“As we were entering the week before, we started seeing that it was going to cover the entire state, which is extremely unusual for Texas,” she remembered.
Demand for electricity and heating would be huge. To prepare, Gold-Williams said, San Antonio s city-owned utility had to make sure it had enough electricity contracted and enough natural gas to supply its customers and fuel its own power plants.