EVANSVILLE – The electric grid operator is "no longer requesting electricity conservation" from CenterPoint customers, the utility announced Sunday morning.
The announcement comes 24 hours after CenterPoint issued a news release saying the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator, or MISO, wanted customers to limit their use of electricity amid frigid temperatures and a massive winter storm.
MISO controls the grid for huge swaths of the central U.S., from the Dakotas all the way to Louisiana. CenterPoint said it had enough energy stored to service its customers, but other areas were "experiencing shortages across (MISO's) multi-state footprint."
If the shortfalls worsened, CenterPoint said, MISO would have ordered them to implement "planned outages" across the Evansville area in "brief intervals."
That has apparently leveled out enough to drop the conversation alert – at least for now.
"Bitter cold temperatures are expected to continue through the week. If conditions change, MISO may issue additional alerts and CenterPoint will notify customers promptly," CenterPoint spokesman Noah Stubbs stated in the release.
The alert Saturday had asked Evansville-area residents to turn down their thermostats and avoid using their ovens, among other requests. That sparked slews of angry comments online from people forced to hunker down in their homes due to mounds of snow and subzero wind chills.
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