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Austin Energy reviews winter‑weather readiness, damage assessment and outage‑communication upgrades
Summary
Austin Energy described winter-weather safeguards and storm-recovery improvements, including increased substation inspections in winter, a formal damage-assessment process with phased restoration priorities, expanded mutual aid, and outage-map and notification upgrades.
Austin Energy Chief Operating Officer Lisa Martin briefed the committee on winter-weather preparedness and recent enhancements to storm recovery after lessons learned from prior storms.
Martin said the utility increases substation inspections from every 8–12 weeks to monthly during winter, installs protective measures (insulation blankets, heat tracing and wind barriers) at plants and substations, and that the general manager signs an annual Winter Weather Readiness attestation to ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
Martin described a clarified, three-phase restoration prioritization: Phase 1 restores the…
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