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A CenterPoint Energy facility in Downtown Houston. Hurricane Ike caused great disruption of service in the Greater Houston Area, wiping out 2.1 million of CenterPoint's 2.26 million clients' electricity.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to issue an executive order forcing electricity provider CenterPoint Energy to improve the reliability of its equipment and its level of storm preparedness if ...
Reliant Energy's power plants became a wholly owned subsidiary of Centerpoint Energy. The new company was known as Texas Genco. When the state of Texas deregulated the electricity market, the former Houston Lighting & Power (HL&P) was split into several companies. [4] In 2003 HL&P was split into Reliant Energy, Texas Genco, and CenterPoint ...
In June 2009, NRG Energy purchased Reliant Energy's retail electricity business. At the time, Reliant had 1.8 million customers and was the second largest electric provider in Texas. [5] The name Reliant Energy was retained and the surviving wholesale business was renamed RRI Energy, which was retired in 2012 after additional NRG acquisitions.
Most were concentrated in the Houston area, where CenterPoint reported Monday that it had restored power to more than 2 million customers. Still, more than 200,000 remained without power. Houston-area residents have sweltered in heat and humidity, stood in long lines for gas, food and water, and trekked to community centers to find air ...
Ryan, the CenterPoint Energy executive, said the company started tracking Hurricane Beryl nine days before the storm made landfall. Just after July 4, days before the storm hit the Texas coast ...