SAN ANTONIO – CPS Energy outlined changes it plans to make after a devastating storm that swept through the San Antonio area and left hundreds of thousands of customers affected.<\/p>\n
CPS Energy employees presented to the board on ways to improve the utility\u2019s response to major storms and how it is preparing for the next significant weather event, which the utility said could be on the horizon.<\/p>\n
More than 353,000 customers were left without power by the storm. The storm also caused damaged trees and property.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, CPS Energy said lessons need to be learned from the weather event and applied to future storms.<\/p>\n
Among the improvements discussed were better outage updates, connecting community leaders such as HOAs to assistance opportunities for their communities, and giving customers ways to submit photos of specific damaged areas so crews can better identify where help is needed.<\/p>\n
CPS Energy also said it may have to put those improvements into practice sooner than expected, as a \u201csuper El Nino\u201d could make landfall in Texas in the coming months. The utility said it is preparing for that storm to possibly be worse, but that it would have advanced warning to help with preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – CPS Energy outlined changes it plans to make after a devastating storm that swept through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-450693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450693","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=450693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}