The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has ended emergency conditions and said conservation is no longer necessary.
“We only request conservation from customers when we really feel like we’re near emergency conditions,” said Dan Woodfin, ERCOT senior director of system operations, during a virtual press conference Friday morning. “We are completely back to normal operations.”
The regulator said it ended its forced outages Friday morning. Transmission providers are still continuing to end the remaining rotating outages, ERCOT CEO Bill Magness said. Some Texans could be experiencing outages from storm damage, which local providers will address. — Reese Oxner
ERCOT says forced outages no longer necessary
The state’s electric system now has enough generation to return to normal operating conditions, and no additional power outages were needed overnight to balance supply and demand, according to officials with the entity that operates the grid.
“There is enough generation on the electric system to allow us to begin to return to more normal operating conditions,” said Dan Woodfin, senior director of system operations for Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
Those who are still without power are those in areas where the distribution system was damaged by the ice storm, areas where power needs to be restored manually and large industrial facilities who voluntarily went offline to conserve energy.
