Even though some record lower temperatures were recorded in Oklahoma Tuesday, the Southwest Power Pool, the agency controlling the electric grid in Oklahoma and 13 other states, brought an end to its Resource Advisory issued because of the extreme and bitterly cold weather.
“Due to improving forecast system conditions,” the agency said it ended the advisory effective 1 p.m. central time on Tuesday. The advisory had been initially declared
The Resource Advisory was initially declared for Sunday, January 19, 2025, at 12:00 a.m. CT, until an anticipated end time of Tuesday, January 21, 2025, at 11:00 p.m. CT.
The advisory did not require any conservation of energy by the public but was issued to raise awareness of potential threats to reliability among entities responsible for operating transmission and generation facilities.
It had been declared due to forecasted extreme low temperatures and the potential for higher than normal demand for electricity and resource outage uncertainty. Temperatures Monday night and Tuesday morning were their lowest in the region reaching into the single digits and in some areas were zero degrees or lower.
The Oklahoma Mesonet reported Tuesday’s temperatures set records.