Three members of San Antonio City Council are calling for a meeting with CPS Energy officials and the City Manager’s office to discuss power outages from a late August rainstorm that left thousands of residents without electricity for days.
In an emailed statement, council members Sukh Kaur (District 1), Edward Mungia (District 4) and Teri Castillo (District 5) said they want a comprehensive review of CPS Energy’s response plan, including a breakdown of its decision-making process, response actions and timeline for restoring power.
The three districts faced some of the most serious outages after a Friday, Aug. 28, storm that left 112,000 CPS Energy customers without power in its immediate aftermath. During a briefing on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 30, officials with the city-owned utility said 20,000 customers still had no electricity. Some 2,000 were still without power at noon the following day.
“San Antonio residents should have confidence that when severe weather strikes, every effort will be made to restore power as quickly and safely as possible,” Kaur said in the statement. “Our responsibility is to advocate for our constituents and ensure we are doing everything possible to build a more reliable and resilient energy system for our city.”
Castillo said the debriefing will allow council and the public to better understand how CPS Energy executed its response.
“We look forward to having that conversation with CPS Energy and the City Manager’s Office so we can identify lessons learned, strengthen our emergency response, and ensure we are doing everything we can to support our residents when they need us most,” she said.
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