Greg Abbott called for an investigation of the grid manager, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. But hours after those assurances, the number of outages in Texas only rose, at one point exceeding 4 million customers. By late Tuesday afternoon, ERCOT officials said some power had been restored, but they warned that even those gains were fragile and more outages were possible. Some wind turbine generators were iced, but nearly twice as much power was wiped out at natural gas and coal plants. Forcing controlled outages was the only way to avert an even more dire blackout in Texas, Magness said.

Source: Daily Sun February 16, 2021 20:26 UTC