Greg Abbott met with state energy leaders at 11 a.m. Tuesday to discuss plans to deal with a winter storm later in the week. We will be prepared for this,” said Brad Jones, interim CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) at the press conference. That number represents 99% of the 324 generators ERCOT has already inspected, which accounts for 85% of the state’s total power supply. “It could be that power lines are down — power lines by the company that customers enter into contracts with,” Abbott said. “Those power lines could go down, because a tree falls on the power lines, and the power lines are no longer able to, at that particular time, to deliver power to a home.

Source: Ethiopian News February 01, 2022 17:23 UTC