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Wes Rapaport

@wesrap

24 Feb

ERCOT board chair Sally Talberg: "Please be aware that there's a tremendous interest in getting answers to what happened..." regarding last week's outages during winter weather. #txlege #txwx

"I want to acknowledge the pain and suffering of Texans during this tragedy that continued for many, even after the power was restored last week," ERCOT board chair Talberg says. #txlege #txwx

ERCOT board chair Sally Talberg says more than 4 million Texans lost power during/after the winter storm.

That's higher than the estimates given by ERCOT leadership last week-- which were in the 2-3 million range.

#txlege #txwx

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Wes Rapaport

@wesrap

19 Feb

ERCOT latest: rotating outages are over. Ongoing outages are now likely trees on power lines or broken equipment. #txlege #txwx

"As difficult as they were," the outages "served a purpose," ERCOT leadership says. #txlege #txwx

If ERCOT didn't take the action it took, "we'd be talking about when we might estimate, weeks or months from now, that we'd see the power system repaired," ERCOT CEO says. #txlege #txwx

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Wes Rapaport

@wesrap

18 Feb

@GovAbbott

About an hour away from @GovAbbott press conference updating Texas on power outages and storm response. #txlege #txwx
kxan.com/news/texas/gov…

Press conference starting. Every agency “working around the clock” to bring back power you need & deserve, Abbott says. #txlege #txwx

Abbott says approx 325k Texans without power. None because of lack of generation or ability to generate. All because ice damage and need to manually turn on power for people. #txlege #txwx

#txlege #txwx

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Wes Rapaport

@wesrap

18 Feb

In Thursday AM briefing, ERCOT leadership says "we're not out of the woods yet but we did make a great amount of progress overnight and into the morning hours" on getting power back on for Texans. #txwx #txlege

"We're still in very cold conditions, so we're still seeing much higher than normal winter demand," ERCOT CEO Bill Magness says. Got thru AM peak without taking additional actions and hoping to get thru AM peak demand tomorrow the same. #txlege #txwx

"Customers should be seeing, you know, the light and the heat coming on and the who haven't been seeing it since earlier this week on a regular basis, as the transmission operators take on their process to put the power back in place," ERCOT CEO Bill Magness says. #txlege #txwx

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Wes Rapaport

@wesrap

17 Feb

In briefing, ERCOT: If power supply & demand too far out of balance it risks "cascading catastrophic blackout" not an outage that we can restore as soon as power plants work again, but blackout affecting entire ERCOT region, w/ "no kind of indeterminate end date" #txlege #txwx

"As the weather begins to warm, then the demand comes down and as demand comes down, that's another way that you can establish that balance, but avoid the total catastrophic blackout that we're avoiding," ERCOT CEO says. #txlege #txwx

ERCOT senior ops director: As generation is avail—utilizing it to the max amount possible to restore consumers ASAP & if ERCOT has to increase outages "that's not okay but it still allows them to be served for some interim period & so we think that's beneficial." #txlege #txwx

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Wes Rapaport

@wesrap

17 Feb

@GovAbbott

Inbox: @GovAbbott will host a press conference at 3p from one of the state operations centers to provide an update on TX response to winter weather and power outages. #txlege #txwx