Live Breaking News & Updates on Austin Power Outages

As of 10:30 p.m. Feb. 15, more than 210,000 Austin Energy customers are without power more than 40% of all customers in the city. Those outages began early in the morning after a winter storm and have continued for hours as the energy company maxed out all available circuits it could disconnect under direction from the the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
Emergency services are still operating, and residents in need can still call 911. However, the city of Austin’s 311 help line and its website are experiencing issues.
“We are not having any impacts to 911 operations. We’re still asking the public to please keep 911 open for immediate emergencies only,” said Juan Ortiz, director of Austin Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. ....

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