Winter Weather Alert - Mark Keough County Judge - Entergy Update -9:30PM 2/15/21

The Woodlands, TX - Update from 7:30 PM call with Entergy-

Just wrapped up another conference call with Entergy. They continue to cycle through customers who have been without power with alternating outages. According to Entergy they have completed roughly 60% of customers who have been without power since 5 AM. Overnight they will continue cycling through those customers until everyone has had a chance to have their power restored for a period of time.

As far as restoration of power generation at the Willis power plants. Currently Lewis Creek 2 is up to 250 MW of generation and the new Entergy plant is up to 340 MW of generation. They will be working with MISO, their regulator, to bring more generation from outside of the area to our area. This will help bring more households up with power faster.
Entergy will continue to work through the night to bring as much power generation online as they can. Bringing relief to all of our homes who have been without power for more than 12 hours.
I know everyone is cold and frustrated. I share your experience of being without power. Montgomery County has opened several warming centers throughout the day and currently they have capacity for anyone who needs a warm place to stay.
Warming centers open with capacity are.

1) Over Under Church, 600 S. Frazier St, Conroe.

2) Church Project, 602 Pruitt RD, The Woodlands.

3) Lone Star Convention Center, 9055 Airport Rd, Conroe.

4) Madeley Ranch Elementary, 3500 Madeley Ranch Rd. Montgomery.

I will issue any updates I receive thru the night.









Just received another update from Entergy:

From Sallie Rainer, CEO of Entergy

Per the request on the call at 2 pm today, I have an update on the progress of returning our generating units to service. Our Lewis Creek Unit 2 is now back on line adding 225 MW to our grid. Our Montgomery County Power Station (MCPS) is in startup and progressing nicely, it is producing over 100 MW right now, but still has several critical steps to reach its full output of close to 1000 MW. As of now, we expect MCPS to reach full output around 7 PM or so.

Due to these additional generating resources coming back on we have been able to reduce the amount of load we have been curtailing. Earlier today MISO directed us to curtail 800 MW and we are now allowed to reduce that to 500 MW.

This means we can start bringing the customers who have been the longest without power first. We expect to work through restoration over the next few hours.

We will then move into rolling outages as we will have more room to roll customers off and on. This will continue until we get MCPS up to full output.

I expect to have another update and call with Entergy at 7:30 tonight.