As of 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, the number of outages in the Alpine, Marathon, and surrounding areas had been reduced to approximately 660, according to Fred Hernandez, AEP Texas community affairs manager. That number compares with approximately 5,400 at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.
“We remain optimistic about restoring power to 250 residents in the Sunny Glenn subdivision near Alpine by late this evening,” Hernandez said. “We have restored power to some residents but found that the sudden increase in electric demand following service restoration was causing new outages. Consequently, we are now restoring power to the subdivision section by section.”
The same situation existed for the restoration effort in Marathon as power was restored followed immediately by new outages. AEP Texas continues to anticipate restoration of service to the 500 customers in Marathon later this evening.
Crews continue to focus on remaining outages, which are concentrated in and around the city of Alpine, as well as outlying areas. Work continues to repair three major transmission lines serving the city and surrounding areas. Service was restored to the fourth major transmission line and substation serving Alpine on Saturday.
A "snapshot" view of current outages is available anytime at www.aeptexas.com/outages.
AEP Texas, a unit of American Electric Power, delivers electricity to over a million homes, businesses and industries in south and west Texas. AEP Texas provides regulated energy delivery service to consumers, regardless of which Retail Electric Provider they choose. The region headquarters is in Corpus Christi.
Larry Jones
AEP Texas Corporate Communications
lajones@aep.com
(512) 203-4916