Winter Storm Texas 2024 Power Outages Today. Power interruptions began on sunday night, as texas’ grid operator sought to balance a surge in demand and a shortage of supply that followed an extreme drop in. A huge winter storm sweeping across the southern us has killed at least 21 people and left millions without power.
A winter storm in 2021 infamously plunged millions across the state into cold darkness because there wasn’t enough. Texas’s electric grid operator ercot is gearing up for a winter storm that’s expected to drop temperatures to about 15 degrees across the state early next week.