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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 conc...

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 ...

Texas power outages: Grid was 'minutes' from failing, lawmaker says CNN 2/18/2021 By Eric Levenson and Madeline Holcombe, CNN © Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle/AP People line up to fill their empty propane tanks Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Houston. Temperatures stayed below freezing Tuesday, and many residents were without electricity. 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. The lack of power to about a quarter of the st...

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.