Due to the extreme weather conditions, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) entered emergency conditions and initiated rotating outages at 1:25 a.m. today.
ERCOT reports about 10,500 MW of customer load was shed at the highest point. This is enough power to serve approximately two million homes, the electrical provider stated in a press release.
Extreme weather conditions caused many generating units – across fuel types – to trip offline and become unavailable.
There is now over 30,000 MW of generation forced off the system.
“Every grid operator and every electric company is fighting to restore power right now,” said ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness.
Brownsville Public Utilities Board started the rotating outages early this morning, the utility company stated in a press release.
With the rotating outages,BPUB customers will experience an electric outage for approximately 30 minutes.
The rotating outages will continue until ERCOT instructs BPUB to discontinue.
