Oncor

Oncor is ending its controlled or rotating outages after increased electrical generation and stable demand.

In a statement Thursday, Oncor said the Electric Reliability Council of Texas directed Oncor to begin restoring power previously dropped from the electric grid.

As of 7 p.m. Thursday, about 145,000 Oncor customers are without power due to damage from Wednesday’s winter storm and previous storm damages.

Of those, 63,000 outages are from cold weather and lack of generation impacts experienced earlier in the week. The remaining 82,000 outages are because of Wednesday and Thursday’s winter storm in the Palestine, Lufkin and Nacogdoches areas.

Oncor expects that a substantial amount of remaining customers will have their electricity restored by Friday evening.

“Our personnel will continue working 24/7 to restore power to these remaining customers,” the Oncor statement read. “We recognize the hardships that this power emergency has caused for our customers and communities. We appreciate their patience as we awaited the return of electric generation and protected the Texas electric grid.”

Oncor said due to large amounts of system activity, the company expects it will take some time for the tracking system to update its outage map. Oncor added that it will continue to follow the direction of ERCOT should electric generation change and take steps to inform customers.

To report an outage, call 888-313-4747, text OUT to 66267, using the MyOncor app or visiting Oncor.com.