After a statewide blackout in 2021 and a massive Austin outage in 2023, cold weather means energy anxiety for many in Central Texas.

Another Arctic blast of freezing temperatures will test the ERCOT grid during this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend and early next week.

That happened early Tuesday, when ERCOT called on about 4,000 megawatts of battery storage to help meet the morning demand crunch. Those same batteries were charging up during the day to be ready for when the sun goes down and demand spikes again for the evening temperature drop.

They added that a customer's outage status may not change, as it will update once new restoration information is ava