On Thursday, an ERCOT spokesperson said that it did 'expect sufficient generation to meet demand' for this storm.

history.' More than 200 people died, according to state officials. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission called it “the largest manually controlled load shedding event in U.S. ERCOT said it had to implement blackouts to prevent the grid from collapsing. The state power grid manager, ERCOT, said on Twitter that it “has all available resources on-line or in reserve in preparation to meet electric demands.”ĮRCOT was at the center of a controversy in February 2021 after a storm caused widespread outages that lasted days. The utility covers around one-third of Texas, she said. There have been sustained winds of 25 mph to 35 mph Thursday and gusts higher than that, she said. The main problem is the wind, Oncor spokesperson Kerri Dunn said. Around 8,000 of its affected customers were in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to its website. The power utility Oncor, which had over 19,000 customers without power, tweeted that crews are responding to weather events as quickly as they are able. There were 58,498 customers without power at 6:30 p.m., according to the outage-tracking website. More than 58,000 Texas homes and businesses were without power Thursday evening as a winter storm with frigid temperatures and winds hit the state. American Airlines flight information screens display flight information, including canceled and delayed flights, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Thursday. The weather service in Boston is predicting torrential rain and damaging winds overnight and into Friday. New York City is expected to get strong winds and heavy rain starting Thursday night and through Friday, according to the National Weather Service, and it could have a flash freeze. LaGuardia Airport in New York City had a combined 308, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport had 293, and Boston Logan International Airport had 207, according to the site. More than 430 flights to or from Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports scheduled for Friday have been canceled, according to the website. Some airports have already been battered by the storm, such as Chicago, and flights in other parts of the country have been canceled ahead of the anticipated cold temperatures and high winds. More than 1,250 flights scheduled for Friday have been canceled in Midwestern or East Coast states amid a major winter, according to a flight-tracking site.

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