Millions of Texans are forced to run out of electricity while it is unprecedented cold. The US state power grid operator is temporarily shutting down nearly 3 million customers to avoid an uncontrolled power outage while there is a record demand for electricity due to the cold.
The National Guard is deployed to transport elderly residents to shelters. Texas reservists are helping local government agencies transfer residents to 135 cold-weather shelters set up in the United States’ second-largest state, Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement Monday.
The grid operator takes turns interrupting the supply to customers. The authorities are calling for power consumption to be limited. Due to the cold, not all fuels can be used for generators. The bad weather also almost halved the production of wind energy.
US President Biden declared a state of emergency for Texas to allow aid after temperatures of -2 to -22 degrees were measured. With Texas, much of the United States was in the throes of winter. There was also a power outage in Louisiana, which borders Texas. Even in Mexico, at least 400,000 customers of the grid operator were without electricity.
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