Austin Energy can’t say when power will be back for all

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Austin Energy pledges to bring back online every utility costumer who had to suffer through freezing outages.

But as the utility’s General Manager Jackie Sergeant lays it out, she can’t say how long that total repowering will take, “I know you don’t want to hear anything other than ‘Everyone is going to their power back on and its going to happen right now.'” She continued, “I wish that bringing everyone back online was as easy as flipping a switch or pushing a button, but its not.”

Sergeant says repowering users will be a methodical process and take time and may even reveal more issues that’ll need to be addressed before full restoration can occur.

She explained just as the power grid was systematically brought off line, to help protect the grid, so to shall the process of bringing residents back on for the very same reason.

 

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