From Scott Lemay, Garland City Mayor

Power Status Update 12:00 AM 02/16

Just to be clear on this and not making excuses. The power outages we are experiencing are not the fault of GP&L staff or facilities. We are subject to regulatory demands from ERCOT. Our staff have been working on this issue all day and will continue to do so. We have made gains in getting power to some. Unfortunately we have not been able to restore all. Statewide we are still seeing extremely high demand with only very limited recovery of the power grid. We are aware of all outages and are very concerned by the effects of the cold on people and property. I have asked for a full status update in the morning and I have expressed the concerns I heard today about the difficulties people have experienced when contacting GP&L. I have spoken to many of our council members today who have shared similar concerns. We will have full reporting on this at our next work session. In the meantime I will continue to share all status updates.

Garland Power & Light Update 3:00 PM 02/15

Our crews are continuing to work out power restoration solutions within our current restrictions. We are working through line voltage capacity modifications. This is a very slow process. We are also experiencing feeder loading problems in areas where power is being restored. To put it simply once the power comes back on the immediate load is too great. So if your power is restored please limit usage. All users should continue to limit power usage until full capacity is restored.

Garland Power & Light Update 1:30 PM 02/15

We have been able to restore some of our interrupted load by sectionalizing customers between feeders. We are still operating within the amount of our load shed requirements from ERCOT.

Much of the current disruption is due to power plants around the state going offline last night. Some of those plants remain down at this time. Some are slowly coming back online.

We are trying to restore power in small blocks and timed to allow cold-load pickup to settle out. That’s depending on the statewide grid capacity.

We are continuing to work out solutions on rotations of outages without interruption of critical customers and services.