{"id":182926,"date":"2021-02-19T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/texas-power-outages-fall-to-280000-as-energy-grid-restored\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:20:50","slug":"texas-power-outages-fall-to-280000-as-energy-grid-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/texas-power-outages-fall-to-280000-as-energy-grid-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"#Texas power outages fall to 280,000 as energy grid restored"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Texas power outages fall to 280,000 as energy grid restored<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A \u201cfragile\u201d energy grid has been fully restored in Texas, which has been battered by a historic winter storm \u2013 but some 280,000 homes remained without power Friday and 13 million people have seen their water services disrupted, according to reports.<\/p>\n

The restoration came as officials with the entity that operates the grid said it was \u201cseconds and minutes\u201d away from a catastrophic failure that could have left residents in the dark for months, the Texas Tribune reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gov. Greg Abbott, who confirmed that all power-generating plants in the Lone Star State were online as of late Thursday, urged lawmakers to pass legislation to ensure the energy grid was prepared for cold weather in the future, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happ<\/a>ened this week to our fellow Texans is absolutely unacceptable and can never be replicated again,\u201d Abbott told reporters as he lashed out at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a cooperative responsible for 90 percent of the state\u2019s electricity.<\/p>\n

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An Oncor power substation is surrounded by snow in Waco, Texas, on Feb. 18, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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The governor said ERCOT had assured officials before the storm that the grid was prepared for the frigid weather.<\/p>\n

Judge Lina Hidalgo, the top elected official in Harris County, which includes Houston, said the number of homes without power in her county had fallen to 20,000 from 1.4 million a few nights ago.<\/p>\n

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A man staying inside a Salvation Army facility after winter weather caused electricity blackouts in Plano, Texas, on Feb. 18, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThe lights may be on, but we\u2019re not quite yet out of the dark, we\u2019re not quite yet out of all the challenges,\u201d Hidalgo told reporters Thursday afternoon. \u201cWe\u2019re not through this yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

She warned Houston residents to prepare for the worst.<\/p>\n

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An Oncor Electric Delivery crew works on restoring power to a neighborhood following the winter storm that passed through Texas on Feb. 18, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThe grid is still fragile. There is more cold weather coming tonight. So that\u2019s going to put pressure on these power plants that have just come back on,\u201d Hidalgo said.<\/p>\n

ERCOT officials said the state was dangerously close to the worst-case scenario of uncontrolled blackouts across the state.<\/p>\n

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Empty shelves seen inside a H-E-B grocery store on Feb. 18, 2021 in Austin, Texas.<\/figcaption>
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On Monday, grid operators saw warning signs that huge amounts of energy supply was dropping so they began what was meant to be rolling blackouts that lasted for days for millions of Texans, the Texas Tribune reported.<\/p>\n

Natural gas-fired plants, utility scale wind power and coal plants trip<\/a>ped offline due to the extreme cold \u2013 while the demand for energy spiked as consumers and businesses turned up the heat.<\/p>\n

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Oncor Electric Delivery linemen helping to restore power to an area in Odessa, Texas, on Feb. 18, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cIt needed to be addressed immedia<\/a>tely,\u201d ERCOT President Bill Magness, said, the news<\/a> outlet reported. \u201cIt was seconds and minutes [from possible failure] given the amount of generation that was coming off the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grid operators had to act swiftly to cut the amount of power provided, Magness said, because if they had waited, \u201cthen what happens in that next minute might be that three more [power generation] units come offline, and then you\u2019re sunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A neighborhood in Waco, Texas, is still covered in ice and snow on Feb. 18, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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If operators hadn\u2019t acted immediately, he said, the state could have suffered blackouts that \u201ccould have occurred for months,\u201d and left residents in an \u201cindeterminately long\u201d crisis.<\/p>\n

And if the grid had gone totally offline, the damage to power infrastructure could have taken months to repair, said Bernadette Johnson, senior vice at Enverus, an oil and gas software and information company in Austin.<\/p>\n

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An Oncor power substation is surrounded by snow in Waco, Texas, on Feb. 18, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cAs chaotic as it was, the whole grid could\u2019ve been in blackout,\u201d she told the Texas Tribune. \u201cERCOT is getting a lot of heat, but the fact that it wasn\u2019t worse is because of those grid operators.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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