Due to continuing power supply constraints and extreme winter weather conditions, all non-emergency City of Garland facilities will be closed Tuesday, Feb. 16. Some departments will provide services by phone or online but may be limited.
All residential and commercial trash/recycling/bulky collections are suspended and the Hinton Landfill will be closed on Tuesday.
This week’s meetings of the Garland City Council have been postponed to next week.
Emergency services such as fire, police and emergency medical operations will continue to operate around the clock. Other critical public works teams will respond to critical needs.
Power Update
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) continues to ask consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use as much as possible through Tuesday, due to record-breaking electric demand during this extreme winter weather. Rotating outages have been more severe and longer than anticipated.
Garland Power & Light has been working to restore some of our interrupted load by sectionalizing customers between feeders. We are still operating within the amount of our load shed requirements from ERCOT.
Much of the current disruption is due to power plants around the state going offline last night. Some of those plants remain down at this time. Some are slowly coming back online.
We are trying to restore power in small blocks and timed to allow cold-load pickup to settle out. That’s depending on the statewide grid capacity.
We are continuing to work out solutions on rotations of outages.
More details, as well as emergency conservation information, are available on the Garland Power & Light website.
Monitor GarlandTX.gov and the City’s Twitter and Facebook pages for ongoing updates