El Paso Electric Continues To Produce More Power Locally
El Paso Electric?s local generation system continues to recover, according to company officials. El Paso Electric currently has five of its eight local generation units back up and providing power to the system in addition to our remote generation which has been operating during the entire event.
The rolling outages stopped shortly after noon on Friday, Feb. 4
El Paso Electric lost all eight of its local generation units on Wednesday during a cold snap that froze equipment. The utility company instituted rolling blackouts from Wednesday through Friday to keep from going over a certain amount of electricity that was being transmitted from outside of El Paso.
