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Garcia: Without state grid reform, San Antonio could face a repeat of February s blackouts FacebookTwitterEmail Reed Williams doesn’t go in for sugarcoating. Neither does he have much appetite for scapegoating. In early March, Mayor Ron Nirenberg enlisted the former councilman to chair a committee to examine what went wrong during the February freeze that resulted in devastating blackouts and water outages. Over three months, the Committee on Emergency Preparedness met nearly every Friday to hash out these issues. The panel took more than 400 questions and comments from understandably concerned residents. This week, it released its findings in a 46-page report. ....
A winter storm and lengthy cold snap have crippled power facilities in Texas and caused about 2.3 million outages as of Wednesday evening, leaving residents in the cold and dark for several days. ....
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. ....
Gov. Greg Abbott said power has been restored to 1.2 million households in Texas since midnight Wednesday, but a timetable was not offered for a full restoration. ....