HOUSTON/(CW39) With 1 million CenterPoint Energy Customers still without power more than 3 days after Hurricane Beryl hit the Houston area and southeast Texas, CenterPoint Energy now announcing new estimated power restoration times will be coming to customers on Thursday, July 11.
CW39 Anchor Sharron Melton Talks with CenterPoint Energy’s Communications Director Alyssia Oshodi to get more details.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday morning, CenterPoint says it has restored more than 1.1 million customers impacted by Hurricane Beryl. It expects to have an additional 400,000 customers restored by the end of day Friday, July 12, and another 350,000 customers restored by the end of day Sunday, July 14.

“We understand how difficult it is for our customers to be without power, particularly in this summer heat,” said Lynnae Wilson, Senior Vice President, Electric Business. “Having substantially completed our damage assessment and restoration of customers impacted by circuit related outages, our crews are now focusing on repairing more localized damage, including in the hardest-hit areas. We know that our customers are counting on us, and we are committed to working as safely and quickly as we can until every last customer is back on.”
CenterPoint officials believe that because Hurricane Beryl caused significant structural damage across CenterPoint’s service area, including along the coast, parts of the electric system will need to be rebuilt. “The hardest-hit areas include Brazoria, where the hurricane made landfall, Matagorda and up the I-45 corridor to the Woodlands. Trees across the Greater Houston area also contributed heavily to the outages as they were vulnerable due to significant freezes, drought and heavy rain over the past three years. In the hardest-hit areas, customers could experience prolonged outages.”
CenterPoint is asking its electric customers to enroll in Power Alert Service to receive outage details and community-specific restoration updates as they become available. For information and updates, follow @CenterPoint for updates during inclement weather events.