2 Denton County cities implement planned outages amid intense heat

Record-high temperatures throughout a lot of North Texas have influenced two Denton County cities to implement planned energy outages.

The town of Sanger has mentioned the heat straining its programs and a few citizens might enjoy rolling outages Saturday and Sunday. The outages for City of Sanger Electric consumers will happen between 3 and eight p.m., town said in a Facebook post.

Officials mentioned outages will ultimate about half-hour, with an hour between every one.

“Please continue to conserve energy, the city said in the post. “This will help reduce the time span for the outages.”

The town, about 45 miles northwest of downtown Dallas, had expected rolling outages from 5 to eight p.m. Friday however mentioned later they weren’t essential.

Residents in Argyle who’re Oncor consumers will enjoy a planned outage in a single day Friday. Oncor is expanding apparatus capability within the space because it has reached “maximum capacity and August temperatures are stressing the equipment more,” town mentioned in a post on its website.

If the apparatus fails, town mentioned it’ll lead to an 18-hour energy outage to fix and substitute it. Power might be disrupted at 11 p.m. and can stay out till upgrades are completed, which will have to take not more than 5 hours, officers mentioned.

“Oncor has agreed to complete this project in the middle of the night to provide the least disruption to households and take advantage of lower temperatures,” officers mentioned.

North Texas has recorded 38 days of no less than 100 levels, greater than the standard summer season of round 20 triple-digit days. On Thursday, the excessive used to be 109 at DFW International Airport — a document for the 12 months that used to be matched Friday.

The intense heat driven the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to factor a voluntary conservation understand for Thursday. Electricity call for fell in need of an all-time document of 85,435 megawatts set Aug. 10.

At 3:30 p.m. Friday, ERCOT knowledge confirmed, call for reached 85,448 megawatts, an unofficial document.

No aid from the heat seems to be in sight for the following few days. The newest forecast from KXAS-TV (NBC5) has the excessive at 108 on Saturday and 110 on Sunday.

High temperatures are forecast to stay within the triple digits in North Texas all over subsequent week.