“No one’s model of the power system envisioned that all 254 Texas counties would come under a winter storm warning at the same time,” said Joshua Rhodes, an expert on the state’s electric grid at the University of Texas at Austin. Officials said that the council was moving quickly to return power. At one point, 400,000 homes had their electricity restored in a one-hour span. But in a meeting with lawmakers on Tuesday, council officials could not give an estimate on how long it would take to fully restore service. The agency “is restoring load as fast as we can in a stable manner,” the council said in a statement on Tuesday.

Source: New York Times February 16, 2021 23:48 UTC