CenterPoint customers should expect multi-day process to restore power after Beryl, company says

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- CenterPoint Energy, the primary power provider for Houston, advised nearly 2 million customers to expect a multi-day process to restore their electricity after Beryl moved into the region.

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On Monday evening, Alyssa Oshodi, the company's director of communications, told Eyewitness News that the utility is confident about a multiple-day event to assess the damage to its system caused by the hurricane and restore power.

As of 9 p.m., CenterPoint's outage tracker showed 1,933,519 customers remained without power compared to a peak of 2.2 million during Beryl's height. The utility also said it restored nearly 285,000 customers since that peak.

CPE explained that 12,000 additional field resources were deployed from outside agencies to assist CenterPoint crews. Chicago's ConEd was among the companies providing workers to the region.

According to Oshodi, CenterPoint is prioritizing areas where crews can restore more customers and critical care facilities.

So, when should customers get back power? The utility said it expects to restore 1 million impacted customers by the end of Wednesday.

"While we tracked the projected path, intensity and timing for Hurricane Beryl closely for many days, this storm proved the unpredictability of hurricanes as it delivered a powerful blow across our service territory and impacted a lot of lives," Lynnae Wilson, CenterPoint Energy's senior vice president, said. "We know we have important work ahead for our customers who depend on us, especially during the hot summer months."

Another regional electricity provider, Entergy, reported about 201,000 outages as of noon, with the majority located in Montgomery, Jefferson, Walker, and Liberty counties. The count included more than 6,100 Galveston County customers, including the entire Bolivar Peninsula.

Overall, some 2.7 million power customers across Texas were without power as of 1:45 p.m.

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ABC13's Tom Abrahams gives a better picture of the power outages across southeast Texas in Beryl's wake.

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