More power plants are expected to come online as the weather continues to warm.

Texas is a big state - three UTM Zones and five state plane zones. The choice you make should be based in what characteristics you want to preserve and which you are ok with distorting between shape, area, distance, and direction. Grid officials said late on Wednesday that they hoped to reduce the length of rolling power outages to no more than 30 minutes to an hour, but that there was still not enough electricity being generated to bring the outages to an end. That depends on what you will do with the data. The family has experienced shorter outages - a few hours at a time - since then. Power came back on late Tuesday evening, she said, “and we tried to warm up the house as much as we could” before it went back off again. What We Do: The Public Utility Commission of Texas regulates the state's electric, telecommunication, and water and sewer utilities, implements respective legislation, and provides customer assistance in resolving consumer complaints.

The map is displayed by GISsurfer which is a general purpose web map based on the Leaflet map API (Application Program Interface). “We were out of power for about 30 hours at first,” said Debbie Arriaga, 44, an executive assistant at a law firm in Houston who cares for her 85-year-old mother and teenage twins. This map with a MGRS grid will work in most browsers on most devices including cell phones. Millions of Texans faced the brutal cold without power or heat for long stretches at a time. Sources:, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine | Note: The map shows the difference between the current day’s forecasted temperature and the 1979-2000 mean for the same day of the year.

Texas grid map