Nearly 700,000 CenterPoint customers have no power Saturday July 13, 2024 at 9:08 a.m. CenterPoint Energy estimates that hundreds of thousands of customers will remain without power into next week. As of Saturday morning, 689,000 households and businesses it serves lacked electricity. Across the state, 776,000 businesses and households across several counties still lacked electricity as of Saturday morning. The longer-lasting outages were likely to be in the hard-hit areas of Matagorda County, Brazoria County and parts of Galveston County, along with some pockets elsewhere, said Jason Ryan, executive vice president of regulatory services and government affairs for CenterPoint, at a Public Utility Commission of Texas meeting on Thursday. The slower work will involve rebuilding large spans of infrastructure, Ryan told the commissioners, such as poles broken and toppled onto the ground. “We know that we still have a lot of work to do and we will not stop the work until it is done,” Ryan s...
