On Monday, CPS Energy leaders are set to take a closer look at the utility’s response to last month’s powerful storms that left hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity and some waiting nearly a week for power to be restored.<\/p>\n
The storms tore through the city late Aug. 28 with wind gusts topping 65 mph and more than 2,400 lightning strikes detected.<\/p>\n
The severe weather damaged more than 60 utility poles and 137 transformers while knocking down hundreds of trees across San Antonio.<\/p>\n
At the height of the outages, more than 250,000 customers were without electricity. While crews gradually restored service, some residents remained without power for several days, leaving families without air conditioning during the summer heat and prompting frustration over the pace of restoration efforts.<\/p>\n
CPS Energy has since been evaluating its response and identifying ways to make better use of its resources and technology during future storms.<\/p>\n
The utility has identified four major areas for improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, CPS Energy leaders are set to take a closer look at the utility’s response to last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6920,6919,6918,6921,223,82,84,83,154,1594,272,172],"class_list":["post-450263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-charity-mccurdy","tag-charlie-parker","tag-chris-duel","tag-mr-t","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}