HOUSTON – While much of Houston was spared from a widespread number of outages during its snow day Tuesday, CenterPoint Energy has been stepping it up for customers dealing with overnight outages.
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As of 9:15 a.m. Wednesday, CenterPoint reported about 5,867 customers out of power in surrounding Houston areas with about 128 outages reported.
Thankfully, Houston did not experience outages anything like we saw during last year’s derecho and Hurricane Beryl, but some customers still were impacted by the extreme winter weather conditions.
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CenterPoint is still making good on its promise to act quickly though. According to the energy giant’s map, over 800 outages and more than 25,000 customers have had power restored in the last 24 hours.
“While we’re encouraged that the actions that we’ve taken to prepare for this winter storm season mitigated the number of overall outages so far, our team remains vigilant and will continue safely responding to any potential overnight impacts‚” Darin Carroll, Senior Vice President of CenterPoint’s Electric Business said in a news release Tuesday night. “We want to thank those customers who were impacted by Winter Storm Enzo for their patience as we worked to restore them. We also want to thank those mutual aid workers who traveled from as far away as Virginia, North Carolina and Florida to help us prepare for this storm.”