“Unfortunately, if you are a customer who is currently experiencing an outage, you should be prepared to be without power for at least the rest of the day,” tweeted the company.ĬPS Energy, the municipal electricity company in San Antonio, has an outage map here.

We maxed out on available circuits on what we have to not interrupt critical load,” said the company.ĬenterPoint Energy, the primary natural gas provider for households in the Houston area, has an online outage tracker, but their system crashed due to a surge in demand. “This event happened quickly and the amount of load we needed to remove from the grid was significant and in was in a matter of short time. Īustin Energy, the city-owned utility company, is providing an outage map here. Outages due to this electric emergency could last for hours & we ask you to be prepared,” the company tweeted on Monday morning.ĪEP Texas, which provides electricity for swathes of West Texas and South Texas, has an outage map here. “Due to the severity of the electric generation shortfall, our expected outage length of 15 to 45 minutes has been significantly extended. Oncor Electric Delivery Company, the largest energy company in Texas which provides electricity for Texans in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, East Texas, and West Texas, has an outage map for customers here. Texans may reference the following for more information on power outages. He indicated that the demand is “more megawatts and longer” than ERCOT has ever had to fulfill in the past.Ī detailed look at road conditions for the state can be found here. Woodfin indicated these controlled outage events could last throughout Monday, noting ERCOT is “working tirelessly” to get power back on.Įlectricity providers are not necessarily able to rotate outages due to the “severity” of the demand brought about by the unusual winter storm, according to Woodfin’s statement. “The way this works is we determine how much reduction in demand is needed to maintain that supply-demand balance and we tell the transmission owners around the state how much reduction we need and they determine where and how to implement those reductions on their system.”

Ercot grid map