News Releases

AEP Texas crews will temporarily close Interstate Highway 37 at N. Port Ave., including all connector ramps, flyovers and access points, beginning at 10 p.m. Wednesday, August 13, and extending until 5 a.m., Thursday, August 14, to perform emergency utility work.

Weather permitting, AEP Texas will temporarily deenergize the North Padre Island substation beginning at 2 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21, to make needed repairs safely to some substation equipment.

Approximately 50 line and service crews continued rebuilding infrastructure and restoring power early Saturday to residents in Alice after storms destroyed pieces of the area’s electric grid.

Crews have restored electric service to nearly all impacted customers who are able to take power to their premise after a thunderstorm with heavy rains and reported 90 mile per hour winds destroyed some electrical infrastructure in Alice late Thursday. At 7 p.m. Saturday, approximately 100 customers remain without power.

Thunderstorms Cause Power Outages Across South Texas: Alice Reaches Over 5,000 Outages Friday, 5-09-2025 – 10 a.m.

One Voice #2 – Power Restoration Progressing in Alice after Severe Storms - Friday, 5-09-2025 – 5 p.m.

Weather permitting, AEP Texas crews will temporarily stop boat traffic in 15-minute increments at the Highway 361 bridge at Packery Channel while crews string new electric wire on existing infrastructure. 

AEP Texas implementará un plan de resiliencia de tres años para fortalecer su infraestructura de distribución, terminar trabajos de poda de árboles y manejo de la vegetación, e introducir tecnologías que proporcionen una mejor conciencia situacional para ayudar en la prevención y mitigación de incendios forestales.

AEP Texas construirá uno de los primeros proyectos de línea de transmisión de 765 kV en el Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT, por sus siglas en ingles) para apoyar las crecientes necesidades eléctricas de la Cuenca Pérmica.

AEP Texas will implement a three-year resiliency plan to harden its distribution infrastructure, complete targeted tree trimming and vegetation management work and introduce technologies that will provide better situational awareness to assist in the prevention and mitigation of wildfires.