Power out at your house? You’ve got good company — 400,000 other Texans, as of noon today. But as of this afternoon, the lights (and heat) should be coming back on.
The demand for power — namely heat — exceeded generation capacity around midnight last night, causing more than 50 generators to shut down statewide. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the flow of electric power, ordered utilities to begin rotating power outages to prevent the escalation of uncontrolled power loss. As of about 1:30, ERCOT ended those emergency blackouts.
