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Southwest Power Pool announced that as of 9:30 a.m. Thursday, it’s no longer under an energy emergency alert.

Rolling blackouts affect 130,000 homes, businesses By: Kathryn McNutt The Journal Record February 16, 2021 Drivers make their way along a road during a winter storm in Oklahoma City. Snow and ice blanketed large swaths of the U.S. on Sunday, prompting canceled flights, making driving perilous and reaching into areas as far south as Texas’ Gulf Coast. (AP photo/Sue Ogrocki) OKLAHOMA CITY – Rolling blackouts enacted Tuesday morning to ease the extreme demand for heat and electricity affected more than 130,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma, where a state of emergency remains in...

Unprecedented storm staggers OKC Snowplows work to clear the road during a winter storm Sunday in Oklahoma City. Snow and ice blanketed large swaths of the U.S. on Sunday, prompting canceled flights, making driving perilous and reaching into areas as far south as Texas’ Gulf Coast, where snow and sleet were expected overnight. (AP photo/Sue Ogrocki) OKLAHOMA CITY – A dangerous winter storm held Oklahoma in its icy grip Monday, shutting down businesses, prohibiting travel and depriving residents of basic needs like water and power. By Monday afternoon, state officials were scrambling to su...

At the direction of the Southwest Power Pool, the regional transmission organization that manages the power grid for parts of 14 states including all of Oklahoma, electric companies statewide on Tuesday morning resumed intentional, "controlled" service outages for thousands of customers. As of 8:45 a.m., more than 51,000 Public Service of Oklahoma customers were without power, according to the utility's outage map. At that time, the National Weather Service was reporting a temperature of -10 degrees Fahrenheit in Tulsa. "We would expect that to last into tomorrow, this type of situation, at l...

All rolling power outages from OG&E are currently on hold and are not necessary at this time, the company said mid-morning Tuesday.