The City of Farmersville is apologizing for posting a false alarm about rolling blackouts on the fire department's Twitter feed Wednesday night.
The tweet said "The City of Farmersville will be conducting rolling blackouts at the request of ERCOT."
But when ERCOT got word about this, it said the Farmersville announcement had not been requested by the Council. The PUC also confirmed that, saying in a tweet "The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has not ordered ANY rotating outages. If your area is experiencing outages, they are local in nature and you should contact your utility."
Farmersville City Manager Ben White posted on the police department's Facebook page: "Due to a miscommunication, the previous random blackout will not be necessary. We are aware that the previous post caused alarm and we are sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused."
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