Power restored to nearly all affected customers

Nearly 15,000 individuals have been with out energy early within the day. The variety of outages had roughly halved shortly earlier than 8 am, however rebounded above 11,600 simply over an hour later, CenterLevel’s outage map confirmed. Despite the hundreds of outages, roughly 96% of the corporate’s customers prevented storm-related impacts.

In all, the storms affected round 133,000 customers, a CenterLevel information launch mentioned. By 6 am Thursday, solely 16 customers have been with out energy, in accordance to the outage map.

“We understand how disruptive outages will be for our customers,” John Cornelius, CenterPoint’s vice president of distribution operations and overnight incident commander, said in a statement. “That’s why our focus stays on restoring service for these affected by this storm occasion safely and as rapidly as doable. Our Emergency Operations Center will stay activated as our crews proceed working across the clock to reply to remoted outages throughout the Greater Houston space.”