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In what will be a significant test of the Texas electric grid’s stability, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said there is plenty of power for the demand when snow and wintry precipitation start falling on Jan. 9, 2025.

“The power is not going to go out because we don't have enough supply to meet demand for this week. We've got plenty of power for the demand and for the cold weather that's coming. So, the grid's gonna be running stably,” Pablo Vegas told WFAA on Jan. 5, 2025.

Still, Vegas said, there could be local outages in some areas where vegetation has not been cut away from utility lines by local providers like ONCOR.

“What people are going to have to keep an eye out for is the potential for local utility outages that could be caused," Vegas explained. "If there's ice that gets into trees or ice that gets onto power lines and disrupts some of that local infrastructure that could be a cause of power outages that folks could see."

“Go either to your local utility company's website or go to the public utilities. It's puc.texas.gov right on the front page. It has a storm tracker and an outage map, and you can see and get access to where you need to go to report outages and get information about outages,” he added.

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