CenterPoint Energy Inc.

05/27/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/27/2026 17:07

CenterPoint Energy restores power to 122,000 customers impacted by overnight and early morning storms across the Greater Houston area

2026-05-27T05:00:00Z

CenterPoint restores customers impacted by severe overnight thunderstorms, on average, in less than 100 minutes​

CenterPoint has returned to normal operations and the Emergency Operations Center has been demobilized

HOUSTON - May 27, 2026 - CenterPoint has taken action to restore power to 122,000 customers impacted by the overnight and early morning thunderstorms across the Greater Houston area with an average restoration time of approximately 100 minutes. While crews are continuing to work to restore power safely and as quickly as possible, CenterPoint's Emergency Operations Center has been demobilized and electric business has returned to normal operations.

"Our customers expect and deserve reliable power, and our teams worked around the clock through significant rainfall to safely and quickly restore service to customers who were impacted by the severe storms. We will continue to prioritize restoring power to the remaining impacted customers, many of whom live in areas that experienced significant weather-related damage, until service has been returned to all of our customers in the Greater Houston area," said Jason Fabre, CenterPoint's Vice President of Special Response and Incident Commander.

Restoration & Response Actions (as of 5 p.m.)

CenterPoint's response today followed thunderstorms moving through parts of the Greater Houston area in the early morning hours, with the strongest activity taking place between 2 and 3 a.m. The scope of CenterPoint's storm response and restoration includes the following actions:

  • Approximately 2,000 CenterPoint frontline workers and contractors have restored approximately 122,000 customers since storms arrived around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning.
  • More than 99% of all CenterPoint electric customers currently have power.
  • Since 1 a.m. Wednesday, more than 162,000 Power Alert Service® messages have been shared directly with customers.
  • Across our network of 150 weather stations, we recorded the following with Wednesday's severe thunderstorms:
    • Isolated strong wind gusts of up to 48 mph
      • ​​Widespread winds up to 38 mph
  • ​​​​Isolated rainfall totals of up to 2.65 inches
  • Approximately 6,000 lightning strikes between 12 a.m. and 5 a.m. across Houston were recorded via a third-party (Vaisala)
​​Important ways to stay connected to CenterPoint: Power Alert Service

Customers can enroll in the company's Power Alert Service® to receive outage details, estimated restoration times and customer-specific restoration updates via phone call, email or text. Customers can also stay up to date with CenterPoint's Outage Tracker, which allows customers to see outages by county, city and ZIP code.

About CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
As the only investor owned electric and gas utility based in Texas, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) is an energy delivery company with electric transmission and distribution, power generation and natural gas distribution operations that serve more than 7 million metered customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. As of March 31, 2026, the company owned approximately $47.8 billion in assets. With approximately 8,800 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years. For more information, visit CenterPointEnergy.com.

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CenterPoint Energy prioritizes affordability and reliability actions at Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission's Summer Reliability Forum

​EVANSVILLE, Ind. - May 26, 2026 - Local CenterPoint Energy Indiana leaders met last week with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC), as part of the state's Summer Reliability Forum, to detail the suite of actions it's taking to strengthen day-to-day reliability this summer, while continuing to prioritize affordability and opportunities for southwestern Indiana customers to save energy.

"We remain focused on what matters most to our customers - delivering reliable power every day. As we head into summer cooling season, higher temperatures may drive increased energy demand, and seasonal bills can be challenging for Hoosier families and businesses. In response, we've taken a series of actions to strengthen the electric grid, and to make our customers more aware of ways they can save energy," said Mike Roeder, President, CenterPoint Energy Indiana.

Strengthening Summer Reliability & Preparedness
CenterPoint's annual IURC presentation detailed the scope of actions that have already been taken ahead of the summer season to support day-to-day reliability and meet expected spikes in energy demand, including:

  • Secure Fuel: Securing the necessary fuel supply to meet increases in energy demand during peak summer demand;
  • Diversified Generation Mix: Maintaining a diversified generation and power supply portfolio to meet forecasted customer demand;
  • Targeted Maintenance: Completing planned system maintenance of critical equipment, including substations, ahead of the cooling season;
  • Improving Grid Resiliency: Continuing infrastructure investments and grid modernization that have reduced equipment-related outage minutes by 57% since 2018; and
  • Improving Emergency Response: Enhancing operational emergency response plans to support effective public and customer communications, and better coordination with emergency partners and local officials during emergency events.

Supporting Customers during Summer Cooling Season
As part of its ongoing commitment to customer affordability, CenterPoint also shared with the IURC the resources and programs available to customers to help save energy and reduce energy costs this summer, including:

  • No-Cost Home Energy Assessments: In-home evaluation and a customized energy report at no cost to customers, which could include the installation of energy-saving products.
  • Levelized Billing Option: Allowing customers to spread energy costs more evenly across the year to reduce seasonal bill swings.
  • TimeWise Pilot: A voluntary program that allows customers to save costs by shifting energy use to off-peak hours.
  • Online Energy Efficiency Store: Rebates and tools to help customers improve home efficiency.
  • Payment Assistance Programs: Offering flexible payment arrangements and extensions for customers who need more time to manage energy costs.

More information about the programs and resources available to help customers save energy and costs this summer can be found at CenterPointEnergy.com/ResourceHub.

Community Actions: Key Updates
Since 2025, CenterPoint has announced a series of affordability and community actions, including a commitment to keeping electric base rates stable through 2027, coupled with a $5 million contribution to the Community Energy Improvement Fund to help make customer homes more energy efficient. Most recent efforts to help its Southwestern Indiana customers also include:

  • Pursuing bill-lowering opportunities, by attracting a large load customer to southwestern Indiana, which could lower existing customer bills by more than $250 million over 15 years;
  • Expanding in-person support, by opening new walk-in customer support and payment services at CenterPoint Energy Plaza in Downtown Evansville; and
  • Expanding in-person Community Connect events to share important cost and energy saving programs, resources and information with customers.​
CenterPoint Energy continues taking action and is ready to respond to the next wave of severe weather forecasted to impact the Greater Houston area

​HOUSTON - May 26, 2026 - CenterPoint Energy continues to actively monitor weather conditions and prepare for potentially severe thunderstorms forecasted to impact the Greater Houston area overnight Tuesday and Wednesday morning. The actions CenterPoint is taking to prepare include pre-positioning crews and resources to safely restore power to customers impacted by the storms as quickly as possible. CenterPoint's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) remains activated to monitor the evolving weather conditions and plan and coordinate its storm response efforts. ​

"Our crews worked day and night over the Memorial Day holiday weekend to safely and quickly restore customers impacted by severe weather and we will continue to monitor forecasts and take action to prepare for, and respond to, the next wave of potentially severe thunderstorms forecasted to impact the region this week. We encourage all our customers across the Greater Houston area to prepare and stay safe in anticipation of quickly changing weather conditions," said Jason Fabre, CenterPoint's Vice President of Special Response and Incident Commander.

Preparing for Severe Weather: Key Actions
As part of its continuing preparedness efforts ahead of the next wave of forecasted storms later this week, CenterPoint is taking the following actions:

  • Maintaining an enhanced readiness posture: CenterPoint's Emergency Operations Center remains activated and the company continues to monitor the forecasted severe weather and coordinate its storm response efforts.
  • Pre-positioning the company's workforce and resources: Preparing its enhanced workforce to support storm restoration efforts.
  • Monitoring severe weather 24/7: The Meteorology team continues to track severe weather, including forecasts for significant rain, storm winds and thunderstorms, and will update response efforts as conditions evolve.
  • Coordinating with local officials: CenterPoint continues to coordinate with local officials and emergency management partners on preparedness efforts.
  • Communicating proactively with customers: As part of its storm response, CenterPoint will continue to provide safety and preparedness information directly with customers via email, phone and text, across social media platforms and other channels.

Emergency Communications: Sign Up for Power Alert Service®

To help prepare for the impact of the severe weather, CenterPoint is encouraging its customers to enroll in Power Alert Service® to receive outage details, estimated restoration times and customer-specific restoration updates via phone call, text or email. As part of CenterPoint's overall emergency communications efforts, customers can stay up to date on local outages with CenterPoint's cloud-based Outage Tracker, available in English and Spanish, which allows customers to see outages and restoration times by county, city and zip code.

Emergency Preparations: What Customers Can Do to Stay Safe

CenterPoint urges the public to put their safety first and prepare in advance for extreme weather by having a safety plan ready, especially for those who rely on electricity for life-sustaining equipment or medical needs. Customers can find safety tips to help them prepare at CenterPointEnergy.com/ActionCenter.

For the latest updates, follow CenterPoint on social media and visit CenterPointEnergy.com/ActionCenter.

About CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
As the only investor owned electric and gas utility based in Texas, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) is an energy delivery company with electric transmission and distribution, power generation and natural gas distribution operations that serve more than 7 million metered customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. As of March 31, 2026, the company owned approximately $47.8 billion in assets. With approximately 8,800 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years. For more information, visit CenterPointEnergy.com.​

CenterPoint Energy Prepared to Respond to Potential Impacts of Weekend Storms on Greater Houston

Enhanced frontline workforce remains ready to respond day or night to potential impacts throughout the weekend and restore power safely and quickly to all impacted customers

Monitoring of potential severe thunderstorms, including heavy rain, frequent lightning and strong winds to continue from Saturday morning into Monday night

HOUSTON - May 23, 2026 - As part of its ongoing storm preparations and response efforts for its customers, CenterPoint Energy continues to monitor weather conditions and prepare to respond to potential outages that could be caused by severe thunderstorms expected to impact the Greater Houston area starting Saturday morning through Monday. CenterPoint's enhanced workforce is prepared to respond to potential impacts to its electric and gas customers and to restore service safely and as quickly as possible. CenterPoint's Emergency Operations Center also remains activated to continue coordinating closely any and all response efforts with local government officials and agencies ahead of this weekend's severe weather.

"CenterPoint is prepared to respond day or night, throughout the weekend, for our customers who may be impacted by the severe weather forecasted across Greater Houston. We know that any outage is one too many for our customers, and we have taken a series of actions to be ready to restore service safely and as quickly as possible if outages occur, including pre-positioning frontline crews and enhanced resources across our system. We will continue coordinating with local emergency partners, keeping our customers informed of our response and restoration efforts, and working day or night until every impacted customer is restored," said Nathan Brownell, CenterPoint's Vice President, Resilience and Capital Delivery and Incident Commander.

Preparing for Severe Weather: Key Actions
As part of its storm preparedness and response efforts, CenterPoint is taking the following actions for its customers:

  • Maintaining an enhanced readiness posture: CenterPoint continues to monitor the evolving weather situation and coordinate storm response efforts through its Emergency Operations Center.
  • Readying enhanced workforce and resources: Preparing frontline personnel to support potential restoration efforts both day and night throughout the weekend.
  • Monitoring severe weather 24/7: The Meteorology team continues to track weather forecast developments, and CenterPoint is updating its preparedness and response efforts as conditions evolve.
  • Coordinating with local officials: CenterPoint is coordinating with local officials and emergency management partners on continued preparedness and response efforts.
  • Communicating proactively with customers: Providing safety and preparedness information directly with customers via email, phone and text, across social media platforms and other channels.

Emergency Communications: Sign Up for Power Alert Service®

To help prepare for the potential impact of the severe weather, CenterPoint is encouraging its customers to enroll in Power Alert Service® to receive outage details, estimated restoration times and customer-specific restoration updates via phone call, text or email. As part of CenterPoint's overall emergency communications efforts, customers can stay up to date on local outages with CenterPoint's cloud-based Outage Tracker, available in English and Spanish, which allows customers to see outages and restoration times by county, city and zip code.

Emergency Preparations: What Customers Can Do to Stay Safe

CenterPoint urges the public to put their safety first and prepare in advance for extreme weather by having a safety plan ready, especially for those who rely on electricity for life-sustaining equipment or medical needs. Customers can find safety tips to help them prepare at CenterPointEnergy.com/ActionCenter.

For the latest updates, follow CenterPoint on social media and visit CenterPointEnergy.com/ActionCenter.

About CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
As the only investor owned electric and gas utility based in Texas, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) is an energy delivery company with electric transmission and distribution, power generation and natural gas distribution operations that serve more than 7 million metered customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. As of March 31, 2026, the company owned approximately $47.8 billion in assets. With approximately 8,800 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years. For more information, visit CenterPointEnergy.com.

Memorial Day Weekend Storms Update: CenterPoint Frontline Workers' Response and Restoration Efforts Continue Through Holiday Weekend, with 155,000 Customers Restored Since Saturday at 3 a.m.

​​Emergency Operations Center activated and remains focused on coordinating restoration and emergency response efforts to restore power safely and quickly to all impacted customers

HOUSTON - May 23, 2026 - As severe thunderstorms moved through the Greater Houston area this morning and afternoon, CenterPoint Energy crews quickly took action to restore power to 155,000 customers as of 5 p.m. today. At the peak of today's storm activity between 6 and 7 a.m., approximately 45,000 customers were without service. Approximately 94% of CenterPoint Energy's 2.9 million customers experienced no impacts to their electric service due to the severe weather, with approximately 10,000 customers without power as of 5 p.m. - less than 0.5% of CenterPoint's customers.

"CenterPoint crews immediately took action across the Greater Houston area this morning and began restoring customers immediately as storms moved throughout our region and will continue working around the clock restoring power to all customers experiencing storm-related outages. We are ready to respond throughout the weekend to additional rounds of weather anticipated through Monday, and our team will remain focused on restoring power safely and quickly as possible," said Nathan Brownell, CenterPoint's Vice President of Resilience and Capital Delivery and Incident Commander.

Storm-Related Response & Restoration Efforts Continue

CenterPoint crews remain ready to respond across its 12-county service area to a second round of afternoon thunderstorms and will continue to actively restore customers experiencing outages, with additional severe weather expected this evening and into the Memorial Day holiday. CenterPoint's network of 150 weather stations have recorded isolated strong wind gusts of up to 50 mph in southwestern portions of the service territory, along with rainfall totals up to 1 inch, primarily south of I-10.

CenterPoint's Emergency Operations Center will remain activated as crews continue supporting restoration efforts and preparing for additional weather throughout the Memorial Day holiday weekend and into next week.

Responding to severe weather: Key Actions
As part of its storm response efforts, CenterPoint is taking the following actions for its customers:

  • Activated Emergency Operations Center: CenterPoint continues to monitor the evolving weather situation and coordinate storm response efforts through its Emergency Operations Center.
  • Deployed enhanced workforce and resources: Frontline workers and contractors are prepared to support potential restoration efforts both day and night throughout the weekend.
  • Monitoring severe weather 24/7: The Meteorology team continues to track weather forecast developments, and CenterPoint is updating its preparedness and response efforts as conditions evolve.
  • Coordinating with local officials: CenterPoint is coordinating with local officials and emergency management partners on continued preparedness and response efforts.
  • Communicating proactively with customers: Providing safety and preparedness information directly with customers via email, phone and text, across social media platforms and other channels.
  • Communicating Proactively with Customers: Providing safety and preparedness information directly with customers via email, phone and text, across social media platforms and other channels. Since 3 a.m. Saturday more than 186,000 Power Alert Service® messages have been shared directly with customers

Emergency Communications: Sign Up for Power Alert Service®

To help prepare for the potential impact of the severe weather, CenterPoint is encouraging its customers to enroll in Power Alert Service® to receive outage details, estimated restoration times and customer-specific restoration updates via phone call, text or email. As part of CenterPoint's overall emergency communications efforts, customers can stay up to date on local outages with CenterPoint's cloud-based Outage Tracker, available in English and Spanish, which allows customers to see outages and restoration times by county, city and zip code.

Emergency Preparations: What Customers Can Do to Stay Safe

CenterPoint urges the public to put their safety first and prepare in advance for extreme weather by having a safety plan ready, especially for those who rely on electricity for life-sustaining equipment or medical needs. Customers can find safety tips to help them prepare at CenterPointEnergy.com/ActionCenter.

For the latest updates, follow CenterPoint on social media and visit CenterPointEnergy.com/ActionCenter.

About CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
As the only investor owned electric and gas utility based in Texas, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) is an energy delivery company with electric transmission and distribution, power generation and natural gas distribution operations that serve more than 7 million metered customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. As of March 31, 2026, the company owned approximately $47.8 billion in assets. With approximately 8,800 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years. For more information, visit CenterPointEnergy.com.​

CenterPoint Energy monitoring conditions through the Memorial Day weekend and is prepared to respond to potential severe weather impacting its customers across the Greater Houston area

Enhanced frontline workforce remains prepared and ready to respond to potential impacts on customers

Thunderstorms forecasted to impact Greater Houston area through the holiday weekend

HOUSTON - May 22, 2026 - CenterPoint Energy is actively monitoring weather conditions and preparing for potentially severe thunderstorms expected to impact the Greater Houston area throughout the Memorial Day weekend. The actions CenterPoint is taking to prepare include pre-positioning an enhanced workforce and resources to respond to and resolve any potential impacts on its customers' electric service safely and as quickly as possible in the coming days.

"Our Emergency Preparedness and Response team is focused on taking actions to support our customers ahead of this weekend's forecasted severe weather, including continuing to monitor conditions and staging crews and equipment to restore power safely and as quickly as possible," said Nathan Brownell, CenterPoint's Vice President of Resiliency and Capital Delivery. "Heading into the weekend, we encourage all of our customers across the Greater Houston area to prepare and stay safe in anticipation of quickly changing weather conditions."

CenterPoint crews responded and restored power quickly and safely to approximately 133,000 customers impacted by the first wave of the storm system on Monday night and Tuesday morning.

Preparing for Severe Weather: Key Actions
As part of its storm preparedness efforts, CenterPoint is taking the following actions:

  • Maintaining an enhanced readiness posture: CenterPoint continues to monitor the evolving weather situation as well as planning and coordinating its storm response efforts.
  • Readying the company's workforce and resources: Preparing its enhanced workforce to support potential restoration efforts.
  • Monitoring severe weather 24/7: The Meteorology team continues to track weather forecast developments, and the company is updating response efforts as conditions evolve.
  • Coordinating with local officials: CenterPoint is coordinating with local officials and emergency management partners on continued preparedness efforts.
  • Communicating proactively with customers: Providing safety and preparedness information directly with customers via email, phone and text, across social media platforms and other channels.

Emergency Communications: Sign Up for Power Alert Service®

To help prepare for the impact of the severe weather, CenterPoint is encouraging its customers to enroll in Power Alert Service® to receive outage details, estimated restoration times and customer-specific restoration updates via phone call, text or email. As part of CenterPoint's overall emergency communications efforts, customers can stay up to date on local outages with CenterPoint's cloud-based Outage Tracker, available in English and Spanish, which allows customers to see outages and restoration times by county, city and zip code.

Emergency Preparations: What Customers Can Do to Stay Safe

CenterPoint urges the public to put their safety first and prepare in advance for extreme weather by having a safety plan ready, especially for those who rely on electricity for life-sustaining equipment or medical needs. Customers can find safety tips to help them prepare at CenterPointEnergy.com/ActionCenter.

For the latest updates, follow CenterPoint on social media and visit CenterPointEnergy.com/ActionCenter.

About CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
As the only investor owned electric and gas utility based in Texas, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) is an energy delivery company with electric transmission and distribution, power generation and natural gas distribution operations that serve more than 7 million metered customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. As of March 31, 2026, the company owned approximately $47.8 billion in assets. With approximately 8,800 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years. For more information, visit CenterPointEnergy.com.

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