CenterPoint Energy has released the findings of an independent report that was conducted on the company’s response to Hurricane Beryl in July.
This is the opportunity for the community to weigh in on how well CenterPoint Energy handled the Hurricane Beryl crisis. Feedback may also influence future electric rates.
On Thursday, KPRC 2′s Gage Goulding spoke with Jason Wells, the CEO of CenterPoint Energy. This was Wells’ first interview with a TV news station since the aftermaths of the May derecho and Hurricane Beryl.
During an exclusive interview with CenterPoint Energy’s CEO Jason Wells, KPRC 2′s Gage Goulding showed him a video of a woman who watched her sister gasp for air as she struggled to breathe during the massive power outage.
Following CenterPoint Energy CEO Jason Wells exclusive interview with KPRC 2′s Gage Goulding, KPRC 2′s Amy Davis brought in five Houston community members to gauge how they feel about Wells responses.
CenterPoint Energy CEO Jason Wells spoke with KPRC 2 in the first interview since Houston’s double whammy of natural disasters: a derecho in May and Hurricane Beryl in July. Click this story for the FULL transcripted interview.
This is the first TV interview CenterPoint CEO Jason Wells has done since the May derecho and Hurricane Beryl earlier this year.
Just days before Houstonians will be able to share their honest thoughts about CenterPoint Energy with the Texas Public Utilities Commission, the company’s top man has agreed to interview exclusively with KPRC 2′s Gage Goulding.
CenterPoint Energy will be holding 16 open house events across the Houston area to elicit customer feedback on the company’s response to Hurricane Beryl as well as what the company can do better in future storm events.
“We have heard the calls for change, and we are taking action now," CenterPoint Energy President and CEO Jason Wells said in a statement.
University of Houston VP Ramana Krishnamoorti and CEO Jason Wells indicate that the costs incurred will eventually be passed to customers, either through a future rate increase or a state bailout.
Abbott met with CenterPoint Energy CEO Jason Wells and the Executive Vice President of Regulatory and Government Affairs, Jason Ryan, on Thursday to discuss their proposal to better respond to future severe weather events.
As promised after Hurricane Beryl's historic number of power outages in the Houston area, CenterPoint debuts its new online tool for reporting and tracking power outages.
“CenterPoint intends to increase their rates to recoup the cost of recovering from Hurricane Beryl, passing the cost on to the customer,” Senator Carol Alvarado said in a social media post. “That dog won’t hunt.”
Following Hurricane Beryl, Senator Ted Cruz has written a letter to CenterPoint CEO Jason Wells, where he reiterated his call for an after-action report from the company about what went wrong and what the company will do to improve its response in the future.
Centerpoint’s CEO Jason Wells’ testimony comes a week after he met with the Texas Public Utility Committee (PUC) where he apologized to Houstonians. Today, we can expect Wells to double-down on initial action plans to increase resiliency.
The President and Chief Executive Officer of CenterPoint Energy, Jason Wells, sent a letter to customers apologizing for the company’s response during Hurricane Beryl.
After the energy giant faced scrutiny for getting rid of its online outage tracker, CenterPoint Energy says it'll be unveiling a new, online and cloud-based outage tracker as it works to improve communication with customers.
A rising number of heat-related deaths in Texas among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl has pushed the number of storm fatalities to at least 36.
Jason Wells told regulators the company will launch a new outage tracker by Aug. 1. It will also trim more tree limbs near power lines and hire an executive to focus on emergency response.
CenterPoint Energy executives are being questioned by the state’s Public Utility Commission after widespread criticism of the way they responded to historic power outages after Hurricane Beryl.
The company’s power outages in July have drawn the ire of state leaders. Here’s what you need to know.
A Baytown woman is accused of threatening to murder CenterPoint Energy employees in a series of posts on her X account, according to documents obtained exclusively by KPRC 2, days after more than 2 million people lost power in Hurricane Beryl.
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Multiple people have been displaced after a fire that investigators said was started intentionally at a southwest Houston apartment complex Wednesday.
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PEARLAND, Texas – A man is dead after an officer-involved shooting Tuesday in Pearland. According to Pearland police, officers were responding to a call of a person being held at gunpoint by her neighbor. Wells said that arriving officers encountered an armed man who refused to follow the officers’ orders. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. You can watch a replay of the police briefing about the shooting in the video player below.
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Two firefighters were injured Saturday morning while battling an apartment fire in Houston’s Gulfton neighborhood, officials said. The fire was first reported around 2:30 a.m. Saturday at an apartment complex in the 5700 block of Glenmont Drive, near Alder Drive. Two firefighters were injured while searching for civilians in the building, Wells said. “It was covered in smoke,” Wells said. Everybody worked really really really hard.
