The Southwest Power Pool has rescinded its Energy Emergency Alert Level 3 declaration. Oklahoma had never seen an EEA 3 declared in its history until this morning.

Public Service Company of Oklahoma Stan Whiteford says that meant that the SPP was requesting them to shut down power for some area residents for up to an hour to conserve the power supply in the region.

Whiteford asks all PSO customers to do what they can in their efforts to conserve electricity. Like turning down your thermostat by a couple of degrees or avoiding the use of big appliances.

PSO shut off power throughout its footprint so not one area would experience a huge bulk of outages at one time. According to PSO's outage map, there were over just 11,300 in the area, including a handful of outages in the Nowata area.