HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — CenterPoint Energy, Houston’s primary power provider, has warned nearly 2 million customers to expect a multi-day process to restore electricity following Hurricane Beryl.
On Monday evening, Alyssa Oshodi, CenterPoint’s director of communications, told Eyewitness News that restoring power and assessing damage to the system will be a multiple-day effort.
As of 9 p.m., CenterPoint’s outage tracker showed 1,933,519 customers still without power, down from a peak of 2.2 million during the hurricane. Nearly 285,000 customers have had their power restored since that peak.
To expedite the process, 12,000 additional field resources from outside agencies, including Chicago’s ConEd, have been deployed to assist CenterPoint crews. According to Oshodi, the utility is prioritizing areas where crews can restore power to more customers and critical care facilities.
CenterPoint expects to restore power to 1 million affected customers by the end of Wednesday.
“While we tracked Hurricane Beryl closely for many days, this storm demonstrated the unpredictability of hurricanes, delivering a powerful blow across our service territory and impacting many lives,” said Lynnae Wilson, CenterPoint Energy’s senior vice president. “We know we have important work ahead for our customers who depend on us, especially during the hot summer months.”
Another regional electricity provider, Entergy, reported about 201,000 outages as of noon, mainly in Montgomery, Jefferson, Walker, and Liberty counties. Over 6,100 customers in Galveston County, including the entire Bolivar Peninsula, were also affected.
Overall, around 2.7 million power customers across Texas were without power as of 1:45 p.m.
Tom Abrahams provides an update on the power outages across southeast Texas in the wake of Hurricane Beryl.
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