Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Damages from Hurricane Ike could cost CenterPoint Energy $650 million to $750 million, it said in a filing Wednesday.
NewsWatch: Energy (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
CenterPoint Energy meter readers, like Edward Payton, shown here in a 2007 Chron photo, have been called to other duties post-Ike. They may be back on that job by mid-October. CenterPoint Energy says it has restored power to just...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Democratic county judge candidate David Mincberg took on CenterPoint Energy and Republican incumbent Ed Emmett on Friday, launching a new television ad that promises a better response to natural disasters.
NewsWatch: Energy (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Electric customers in the CenterPoint Energy service area will most likely see September power bills based on estimates of past usage, but with adjustments. Most of CenterPoint's meter reading staff has been temporarily assigned to other responsibilities post-storm in order...
Texas Rainmaker (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
We’re now into our 13th day without electricity thanks to Hurricane Ike. There have been conflicting reports on when our power might be restored. Centerpoint Energy’s map last week said we’d be on by now, but yesterday’s updated map shows that we won’t have power until Sunday at the earliest. Rumor in [...]
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
While CenterPoint Energy met its broad goal of restoring power to most of the area by Monday, the Houston area's largest power transmission company has missed its neighborhood-specific predictions.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
The job's still not done but CenterPoint Energy already has a rough estimate of the bill for restoring power to millions of Houstonians. In a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission CenterPoint said "the total cost for that restoration is...
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
CenterPoint Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNP) has come out this morning with a filing to show its expected costs for restoring power and from outages in and around the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eventure Events announced today that SAP customers including CPS Energy, Aquarian Water, Public Services Electric & Gas, CenterPoint Energy, Pacific Gas and
On Deadline (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
More than 800,000 electric customers are still without power along the Gulf Coast, according to the local utility companies. CenterPoint Energy says 767,000 businesses and households didn't have power at 6 a.m. ET. (That's 34% of customers in the Houston area.) Entergy, which services communities in Texas and Louisiana, says outages are affecting of its 52,000 customers. (Photo of line worker taken...
Brains and Eggs (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Seven hundred and sixty-seven thousand Houstonians (34% of CenterPoint Energy's customers) are still without power today, ten days after the hurricane. That's 100,000 more people than Sarah Palin governs in Alaska, and more than the entire populations of the cities of San Francisco, CA, Columbus OH, and both Austin and Fort Worth. At least I no longer have a big wad of state and local Republicans running...
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
After Hurricane Ike barrelled into Houston on Sept. 12, the city came to an almost-standstill as the damage was assessed. As of midweek, 61 percent of CenterPoint Energy Inc.’s 2.26 million local customers were still without power. But it didn’t take long for businesses and residents to get back on their feet and start the rebuilding process. Houston Business Journal’s reporting staff provides a snapshot...
Petrified Truth (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
CenterPoint Energy reports more progress on restoring power to the area - as of 8:00 a.m., only 36% of their customers were dark. Unfortunately, that's still 819,000 customers. I hope that those restored include more of our friends and co-workers....
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
The other day I got lucky. I spent two shifts with CenterPoint Energy linemen, the fit, brawny guys who are shimmying up light poles and bobbing around in truck buckets in a round-the-clock effort to power up Houston.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
On Day 6 of the largest blackout in Texas history, CenterPoint Energy's power restorations approached a million but that still leaves more than half its customers without power nearly a week after Hurricane Ike shredded the local electricity network.
