San Antonio residents could experience cuts on Wednesday, according to CPS Energy

SAINT ANTHONY – CPS Energy customers who suffer blackouts may not have energy on Tuesday night, when icy rain is expected, according to officials.

John Moreno, a representative of the energy company, joined GMSA @ 9 for a virtual Q&A on Tuesday morning and said customers could be affected by outages until Wednesday.

“This is a pretty serious issue and we’re in it in the long run,” he said, adding that the Texas Electrical Reliability Council has ordered the outages, as a winter storm continues to engulf most of Texas.

Approximately two-thirds of CPS Energy networks will continue to have rotating interruptions during this time. The other third is engaged in critical services, such as a hospital, a base, or a police department.

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For those residents who suffer cuts, Moreno said it is difficult to know if it is due to a technical problem, such as a power line crash, or due to the power outage.

“They’re all together, they’re not separated into groups,” he said, referring to the cut-out map.

The goal was to rotate the interruptions in increments of 15 to 20, but demand has not allowed them to be consistent, he said.

Paula Gold-Williams, president and CEO of CPS Energy, said Monday that most of the disruptions residents experience are due to rotations.

Without continued shutdowns, entire networks would be left offline, leaving them without power indefinitely, Gold-Williams said.

Because of the demand, which has surpassed the demand observed during the summer months, CPS officials are asking people to save energy when possible.

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When asked about the CPS Energy headquarters that used electricity to illuminate its buildings at night, Moreno said he “should take a look” at the problem.

“We definitely have to do our part to save energy, so it’s something I will definitely follow,” he said.

Moreno said CPS Energy has also called for critical services to conserve energy.

The dangerous mass of cold air in San Antonio will keep temperatures below freezing for most of Tuesday. There will be a partial merger, only to see everything freeze again on Wednesday morning.

After Tuesday’s sunset, freezing rain and freezing rains are expected.

Some San Antonio residents without electricity told KSAT that they have resorted to grouping or heading to their vehicles to get a brief relief from their cold homes.

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As of 11 a.m., about 320,000 customers in Bexar County are affected by power outages.