With around 350,000 homes and businesses still without power in the Houston area almost a week after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s demanding an investigation into the response of the utility that serves the Houston area.
Gov. Greg Abbott receives a briefing for Hurricane Beryl from local elected officials Sunday, July 14, 2024, at Gallery Furniture in Houston . Utility crews work to restore electricity in Houston , Thursday, July 11, 2024. Officials say about 500,000 customers still won’t have electricity into next week as wide outages from Hurricane Beryl persist. A kid, left, high-fives Gov.
While CenterPoint Energy has restored power to about 1.9 million customers since the storm hit on July 8, the slow pace of recovery has put the utility, which provides electricity to the nation’s fourth-largest city, underover whether it was sufficiently prepared for the storm that left people without air conditioning in the searing summer heat.
Abbott also said that CenterPoint didn’t have “an adequate number of workers pre-staged” before the storm hit. The utility has defended its preparation for the storm and said that it has brought in about 12,000 additional workers from outside Houston. It has said it would have been unsafe to preposition those workers inside the predicted storm impact area before Beryl made landfall.
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