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Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday afternoon that the state has four immediate priorities after this week's winter storm: restoring power to Texas homes, restoring water, ensuring Texans have food and supplies and getting oil refineries up. ....
AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) While the biggest question looming right now is when Texas will fully restore power, Gov. Greg Abbott says the effort is making strides. On Wednesday afternoon, the Texas governor offered Public Utilities Commission data that showed 6,000 megawatts of power was added to the state s grid since midnight, which equates to 1.2 million households being restored. That number has since grown to 1.6 million households, as Abbott also said the state is poised to restore about 400,000 more homes, drawing from the South Texas Nuclear Project and the state s coal project. There are various small, natural gas generators that are currently going on and off, said Abbott. They should sporadically add about 3,000 megawatts over the next 24 hours and that would equate to about 600,000 homes. ....