CenterPoint Energy Executive Is “Very Proud Of and Impressed By” the Company’s Beryl Response

When Hurricane Beryl made direct contact with Houston as a category one storm on Monday morning, more than 2.2 million residents were left without electricity. Days after the storm, CenterPoint Energy, the utility monopoly responsible for delivering that electricity, remains under fire from Houstonians who’ve been frustrated with the company’s response time and lack of communication. CenterPoint’s own public communications have stayed relentlessly positive, however, providing details of the customers they’ve restored power to by this point—roughly 60 percent of them at press time—and touting the company’s charitable giving to local organizations in affected areas. None of those things, of course, give the 860,000 Houstonians without power access to, say, an outage tracker built for the mobile devices that they rely on for information, or updates…

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