โWeโre coming out of thisโ: CPS Energy chief says customers seeing relief, but repairs have been challenging
SAN ANTONIO โ The power is back on for the majority of CPS Energy customers in San Antonio who have had to battle outages, among other challenges, during this weekโs devastating winter storm. That number is down from more than 200,000 customers who went without power for days as temperatures plunged this week. The majority of those outages were caused by the Energy Reliability Council of Texasโs mandated rolling power outages. AdAfter ERCOT stopped the mandate, Gold-Williams said the number of customers affected dropped to about 10,000. The customers who remain without power in San Antonio, she said, are dealing with equipment failure or ice storm damage.
SA residents angered by โmisinformationโ from CPS Energy on power restoration following winter storm
SAN ANTONIO โ As Lea Ann Tinney shivered through a Monday without power inside her home in the Government Hill neighborhood, she consulted a CPS Energy power outage map that stated only six customers in her 78208 zip code were affected. Tinney then walked outside and counted at least five other homes that were without power at that very moment. Gold-Williams and a utility spokesman defended CPSโs response to the winter storm, pointing out that it was a significant weather event followed by a prolonged period of freezing temperatures. โCPS Energy is going to continue to analyze its performance, how we did, what else we could do, but there are just natural limitations to the system that normally works extremely well 360 days a year,โ Gold-Williams said. A utility spokesman said Tuesday afternoon that it had advised customers to begin conserving energy usage as early as last Wednesday, ahead of the storm that hit Sunday night.
New life given to historical Gibbs home in Government Hill
Gibbs, who after the Civil War got into the land and railroad business in San Antonio, built it. He owned about 10,000 acres of land and built his home as one of the first in the now historical Government Hill neighborhood. Which at the time was the tallest building.โFullmer said the home was a prominent social symbol where Gibbs loved to host social gatherings. โGibbs was a land guy, we are land people and itโs a new tradition to carry on,โ Fullmer said. โThe big issue was the wood,โ Fullmer said.