This weekend’s winter storm has caused widespread power outages in Nashville and other areas of the South — but as of Sunday evening it hasn’t severely strained the electricity grid.
Why it matters: Electric utilities across the country have seen heavy demand during the storm, with the possibility of power outages lasting multiple days.
- Officials were anxious to avoid a repeat of Winter Storm Uri, which left millions without power in Texas in 2021 and was responsible for at least 200 freezing deaths.
Driving the news: As of 6 p.m. Sunday, nearly 1 million U.S. customers lacked power, according to the website poweroutage.us.
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- But of that total, about one-third of the outages were in Tennessee, with most of those in the Nashville area. Nearly half of the city’s residents were without power Sunday, Axios Nashville reported.
- In neighborhoods across the city, frozen rain caused trees to snap…