yes it did
I can’t ind the quote rom Gov. Abbott but he also said the grid did not ail.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/weather/power-outages-texas-hours-power-plants-state-officials-update-ercot-electrical-grid/287-1cd1b3a2-b6b4-4756-b7c1-5f462e2f1bf7
Power outages could continue into Tuesday, last for hours as plants battle cold to get running again
One state official said the power plan was working exactly as it was supposed to to keep the grid intact.
Author: Jason Trahan
Published: 12:44 PM CST February 15, 2021
Power outages caused by severe stress on the state’s power grid will likely continue until Tuesday and maybe even beyond that, state officials said Monday morning.
The outages will continue until enough power is being generated to meet the demand of the system, Dan Woodfin explained. Woodfin is the director of system operations for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, which coordinates the state’s power grid.
“We anticipate that we’ll need to continue these controlled outages at some level for the rest of today and at least the first part of tomorrow, perhaps all day tomorrow,” he said Monday.
As temperatures continued to drop overnight Sunday into Monday, wind and “thermal” generators began to fail in the extreme cold, he said, which has led to, in some areas, outages that have lasted for hours.
“We don’t know exactly why they tripped offline yet,” Woodfin said. “There’s some limited reporting that they do, but we’re certainly going to be doing our normal event analysis that we do. This one will probably be bigger than our normal event analysis, but we’ll certainly go through and figure out why those things have happened.”
He said ERCOT doesn’t actually initiate outages. Power companies such as Oncor in North Texas and CenterPoint in the Houston area, for instance, choose where to cut power, when, and for how long, he explained. There is no limit to how long such an outage can last.
Those companies avoid “areas where there are hospitals or emergency responders and those kind of things,” Woodfin said. “And there’s some other technical things that cause them not to use certain areas. So they’re kind of bound to use those areas that don’t meet one of those categories.”
Woodfin said the state’s power grid plan did not fail.
“The plan actually has worked,” he said. “There’s just insufficient supply of generation on the grid to meet that very high demand on the grid. The plan is intended to preserve the reliability of the grid as a whole, to make sure that we don’t have worse problems than these kind of outages. And so it has done exactly that and will continue to do it.”
more accounts that the grid did not fail. Grid repairs would be even worse than was we face
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/weather/texas-winter-storm-wednesday/index.html
Texas officials pointed the blame at the power company and called for investigations. US Rep. Marc Veasey, a Democrat who represents parts of Fort Worth and Dallas, said he’s learned from an industry executive that the power grid was just minutes from failing on Monday before state agency officials initiated emergency rolling outages.
“I want people to know that we were minutes away from the entire grid crashing,” he told CNN’s Ed Lavandera, criticizing ERCOT and Republican leaders for not better preparing for the freeze.
“They certainly could have taken some precautions that would have prevented what we’re having to deal with now,” Veasey said.