Tag: AEP Texas

There are around 6,200 AEP Texas customers without power in the McAllen, North McAllen area, a company spokesman said Wednesday morning.

AEP Texas said on Monday morning that crews are focusing on the remaining power outages that are impacting approximately 17,000 customers who mostly reside in the Mission, McAllen and Pharr areas.

AEP Texas said in a news release sent just after 10:30 a.m. Sunday that 400 line workers are restoring service to 38,500 customers in the Rio Grande Valley who are still without power as of 9:30 a.m.

A thunderstorm that ripped through the Rio Grande Valley overnight Friday and into early Saturday morning left tens of thousands without power with no immediate relief in sight, and caused havoc in city streets, residential and business property as a deluge of rain and hail drenched the region.

Thunderstorms that ripped through the Rio Grande Valley overnight Friday and into early Saturday morning has left tens of thousands without power and with no immediate relief in sight for at least 24 to 48 hours.

HARLINGEN — The city’s granting of a special permit to open a six-acre $100 million, 100-megawatt battery energy storage site on East Grimes Avenue farmland might hinge on the tax dollars the plant raises.

Approximately 250 AEP customers on South Padre Island and Port Isabel are without electricity this evening and officials said the power outage is weather-related. The...

Power has now been restored to AEP customers in McAllen after the electric company had reported a large-scale outage Monday morning.

Peter Lake, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Texas, was in the Rio Grande Valley on Oct. 10 to check on progress by AEP Texas on a major transmission line project that he said is a “key initiative of the PUC and the state.”

The thunderstorms and heavy rains are causing widespread power outages across the Rio Grande Valley. AEP Texas is reporting more than 6,000 customers are without...