Demand peaked at 68,146 megawatts and is beginning to slope. ERCOT’s dashboard shows that the state has about 15 megawatts of capacity that it isn’t using. this morning, but that demand is about 7 megawatts lower than what was projected on Thursday. The height of electricity demand still appears to be around 8 a.m. Meantime, the state’s power grid has yet to show signs of failure. “Pavements may appear wet in places but actually have coating of ice due to freezing temps,” TxDOT’s Dallas division said in a tweet.
Some of the heavily trafficked corridors might melt as we get into the afternoon, but the song will play again Friday night: temperatures will fall to 12 degrees by Saturday, re-freezing the roads.
XMAS SNOW STORM FORT WORTH TX DRIVERS
The Texas Department of Transportation is urging drivers to stay off the roads, at least until the sun comes out. All of North Texas is like this: Dallas north to Collin County and Denton County, south to Waxahachie. The temperatures overnight dropped into the teens, refreezing the wintry mix that spent much of Thursday blanketing the region. The roads are worse than they were yesterday. The National Weather Service’s Hard Freeze Warning will continue for Dallas-Fort Worth through at least Saturday morning. (Riders who need to use paratransit to get to medical services will be accommodated.) It stopped its rail operations on Thursday, but has now added buses and its paratransit service. The Trinity Railway Express appears to still be sending trains to Fort Worth and back.ĭART is suspending its rail and bus services from noon Friday to noon on Sunday. The McKinney Avenue Trolley is out of service until at least Saturday morning. At nightfall, we’ll run it back-what has melted will re-freeze as temperatures drop back down into the teens. The roads remain slick, but we’re about to get another three hours of sun and temperatures just-above freezing. There are now about 800 individuals experiencing homelessness sheltering at Fair Park, about double the count from yesterday.
Oncor worked through the night to restore service. There are about 2,100 Dallas County residents without power, down from the 20,000 that went without 24 hours ago. The grid’s reserve capacity has held steady throughout the event.Īccording to the Public Utilities Commission of Texas, the 20,000 Texans currently without power are suffering local outages due to damaged power lines and other case-specific problems. Abbott says this morning’s demand of around 69,000 megawatts will be the peak of the storm, below the 75,000 that was forecasted. It would seem we’re in a holding pattern until we warm up. Greg Abbott and other state leaders held another press conference.
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